Update for Windows 7 (KB3125574) x64 when to install it?

This post was deleted by me because for some reason it posted twice .

Hi camelia,

I don't know if you have done the clean install yet or not but I thought I would answer your post anyway.

After a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 you need to download [.msu files] and install the following updates in the order stated below:

[01] - KB3020369 - Servicing Stack Update - April 2015.
[02] - KB3125574 - Convenience Rollup Package - May 2016.
[03] - KB3172605 - Functional Update Rollup (THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT) - July 2016.
[04] - KB3179573 - Functional Update Rollup - August 2016.

Then either:

[1] Download and install KB4054518, the Security Monthly Quality Rollup Update for December 2017.

Now if you are wondering why I am saying the December 2017 update as opposed to the June 2018 update, the reason for this is because of the problems people have had with the security monthly quality rollup updates since the end of last year. It is up to you obviously what you want to install.

[2] Download and install ALL the Security Only Updates [.msu files], of which there are 14 from October 2016 to December 2017, again the reason for this is as stated in number [1] above.

After you have done either of the above you can then run Windows Update normally. This will vastly reduce the number of updates needed [somewhere in the region of 200+ after a clean install] and the amount of time needed to download and install them, along with the numerous restarts needed.

Alternatively, after the clean install, you could just try running Windows Updates. This will however, take quite a few hours because you will need to keep running Windows Updates until there are none left [as I said above there are 200+ updates]. This could work OK might there might be problems because of this years updates which I have mentioned above.

I hope this helps!