Welcome KB4493132 Windows 7 End Of Life Notification

erpster4 said:

and it appears Microsoft is now extending the EOL Notifications to Windows 7 Professional users who are not connected to an enterprise domain.

and MS has just done it with KB4524752 for Win7 Pro

KB4524752 update listed as being installed on this machine 191018 per 'view update history' but update does not list in 'installed updates', for removal. I got the sipnotify.exe window on Oct 18th, for the first (and last) time.

I'm in the process of preparing this machine to dual boot Linux, with a resized HDD (191012).

The restore points created after the resize are nonfunctional, including two by 'critical update'.

This only discovered after the OS refused to recognize a 1G usb stick this AM. Was previously used to
transfer files from lab bench tests for number crunching, over the last 48hrs, with no issues.

It's OK in WXP and W2K machines - W7 fails to load drivers for 'unrecognized device'.
Still haven't got the device manager to recognize the stick, after removing 'unrecognized device', rebooting etc. I've got numbers to crunch here.

Wupdate wants to install KB4524752 (again) this afternoon. . . .

You think this OS could have held itself together long enough to have reached the support expiry date, but I guess MS is jumping the gun, with their gremlins.

Is it worth searching the usb stick issue separately . . . ?

USB fixed itself.

CHKDSK picked up the usual:

Usn Journal verification completed.
The master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute is incorrect.
The Volume Bitmap is incorrect.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

. . . . . . which seems to be endemic for Windows.

Not for much longer, heh heh.

Spoke too soon.

USB backup media went unreadable about 5:30AM, during a pre-install back-up that was almost completed, when last seen at midnight. (backup error code 0x80780034)

Claims it's unformatted, after much dithering.

Needless to say, this media is still readable on other machines W7, WXP and W2K. From there it 'looks like' the back-up completed.

Hi Legg,

as a matter of interest has this occured After you installed Linux
(W7 hates being the 2nd OS)


Roy

No, this is just disk prep and back-up. Pre-install, as I said.

Got a BSOD/power-on-reset while posting the previous message.

First ever on that system/hardware (6yrs?). Using the laptop at present, with the patient looking at logs, in 'safe' mode. Looks like the back-up usb drive is 'vetoed' . . . ?

Will have to re-evaluate the HDD resize/repartition that preceded the posted problems.
I used Seatools, within windows, to transfer the OS, a week ago.

I used the generic disk mgmnt to down-size the new primary partition on the new HDD (to pre-empt doing so in the Linux install environment) on Friday 18th, prior to these problems with usb recognition, back-up and now BSOD/POR.

At least I can rule out Linux or dual OS issues.

If it's just power stress or the new HDD, might even rule out W7Pro or KBs as well. Timing of KB just a coincidence, it seems.