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FYI: Extended Disc Cleanup has started killing recent Windows Updates
I've been using the new extended disk cleanup for over a year now with no problems. Occasionally it will find Windows Updates that have been superseded, and remove them. Yay!!
BUT, upon using Disk Cleanup yesterday, it removed 4 RECENT, REQUIRED updates that had to be re-installed.
It removed:
2 Windows Security Updates from February 2015 (KB3004375 and KB3031432)
1 IE Cumulative Update from February 2015 (KB3021952)
AND
1 IE Cumulative Update from March 2015 (only 2 days old) (KB3032359)
Even after reinstalling them, the 2 Security Updates did not "take" and had to be RE-RE-installed.
So, something has recently been broken as far as Disk Cleanup being able to reliably decide which updates are safe to delete.
-Win7 64-bit Home Premium
-AMD laptop that has previously never had any windows update problems or glitches
EDIT: more info for the truly interested, Windows "knew" the updates had been mistakenly removed, because immediately after rebooting, but before even having a network connection, WU appeared in the system tray and said "4 updates are available"