#SP2 WINDOWS 7 UPDATE#
#SP2 WINDOWS 7 MANUAL#
#SP2 WINDOWS 7 UPGRADE#

It was a bit of a surprise that only that update showed up as available. I use only legitimately licensed software, but I can imagine any number of things could go wrong with that, so as a matter of course I always hide it on all my Win 7 systems. When I clicked on the notification pop-up, this update was the only one listed as available:ДЄfter the update, this reduced list is now shown as still hidden:ДЄs mentioned above, KB971033 is an update from years ago that will actively check to see whether Microsoft wants to deactivate your license. I think the error may have happened because it was checking on its own after I had started the Windows Update service, and my manually initiated check couldnвЂ™t start up a second instance. However, a notification pop-up came up shortly thereafter claiming an update was available. It took a few minutes, then failed with hex error. I tried a manually-initiated Windows Update. IвЂ™ll let you know if I detect anything out of the ordinary. It needs to be running for some days (and especially overnight) before I can say with any confidence whether itвЂ™s staying quiet. However, IвЂ™ve only been monitoring it for a few hours after the installation. This is good news so far it hints that this вЂњconvenience rollupвЂќ update really might be worth using.

Maybe the folks who are doing Windows 7 updates at Microsoft arenвЂ™t all bad. Pro-privacy configuration changes I had made were left in place, and disabled jobs were left disabled вЂ“ which surprised me a bit given MicrosoftвЂ™s recent moves.

I checked the various scheduled jobs and whatnot. Afterward, so far, I havenвЂ™t heard an new peeps out of the telemetry software. IвЂ™m monitoring the communications carefully. Today I installed the вЂњconvenience rollup updateвЂќ from the catalog. The idea here is to see whether installing the вЂњconvenience rollup updateвЂќ could be useful with an existing system thatвЂ™s both up-to-date or mostly so, and which had experienced some Windows Update slowness before. I have some uncommon software that allows me to see what communications are being attempted, and I can verify that this particular setup was completely quiet before the update. KB971033 (Update for Windows Activation Technologies).

#SP2 WINDOWS 7 UPGRADE#

KB3123862 (Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 ).

KB3080149 (Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry).

KB3068708 (Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry).

KB3021917 (determines if performance issues will be encountered if upgrading to Win 10 and sends telemetry).

KB2952664 (diagnostics to determine whether the system will be compatible with Win 10).

They include GWX and telemetry, as well as the Windows Genuine Advantage update from years ago. These are the Windows Updates I had hidden on that system before installing the вЂњconvenience rollup updateвЂќ. The system also had several updates hidden.

#SP2 WINDOWS 7 MANUAL#

Rather than start with a clean setup I chose a Win 7 system that was up to date as of January 14, had been set to do manual updates only, and was configured for maximum privacy (e.g., settings were tweaked, telemetry jobs were disabled, etc.). I now have a test Win 7 virtual machine on which IвЂ™ve installed the вЂњconvenience rollup updateвЂќ, KB3125574. Posted on May 27th, 2016 at 13:14 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

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