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Is there an accepted list of KB's to integrate into a base Win7-sp1?
I've assembled from various sources my own list of "bad" kb's to avoid - 91 of them. Some of them are probably no longer offered by MS. There are supposedly 123 updates rolled into the 3125574 Convenience Rollup Package. Of the 123 updates that I believe are in 3125574, 15 of them are "bad" according to my list. So that leaves 108 as "good".
A base-install of Win-7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit will, today (mid-August 2016) come back with a list of 172 "Important Updates" and 67 "Optional Updates" (not including language packs) when it performs it's first update check. Of the combined 239 offered updates, only 50 match those in the 3125574 Convenience Rollup. Of those 50, only 4 (!) are in the "Important" list:
2786081 / 2798162 / 2868116 / 2929733
None of those 4 are what I consider "bad". Of the remaining 46 updates (which are in the Optional catagory) 8 of them are what I consider "bad":
2660075 / 2726535 / 3068708 / 3078667
3080149 / 3092627 / 3102429 / 3118401
Now regardless if I'm right about some of these being "bad", what I notice is the complete disconnect between the kb's in the rollup vs the KB's that MS is offering during the first update-check. Now whether, upon subsequent update-checks I would be offered more KB's that would end up giving me all the updates contained in the rollup, I don't know.
I have so far been working with whdownloader and it's various pre-made lists and have created win-7 sp1 installs with upwards of 577 integrated kb's (not including the 91 "bad" kb's).
Clearly there have been many kb's offered over time. Clearly that list is greatly reduced, at least in terms of what MS is offering right now to a "fresh" system.
Is there, at this point, an accepted list of "current" KB's, where all the superceded or depreciated or buggy KB's have been crossed off?