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Have you run Windows Update on a Windows 7 installation recently? In my experience it takes several hours to decide what updates are available! Here are about

• walterbell 10y ago
  Try this list of MS patches: http://wu.krelay.de/en/2016-07.htm http://wu.krelay.de/en/2016-07.htm
  • rogerbinns 10y ago
    Those search results are also full of lists of patches and workarounds. Often with followups a month later indicating Windows Update broke again. Anyway to be clear - I don't need help keeping Windows 7 up to date. My (downvoted) point is that there are a lot of people out there running Windows 7 unaware that they are not fully updated, and hence under considerably greater risk.
    • walterbell 10y ago
      One would expect that Microsoft can fix this problem, especially now that Windows 7 Skylake support is extended for several years.
      • rogerbinns 10y ago
        Windows 7 was already supported till 2020. I am surprised Microsoft hasn't already addressed the issue. I offer how many search pages there are as indication of how pervasive the problem is. In my own case (I realise this is anecdata) I only found out about the issue by trying to upgrade to Windows 10 and having that install hang. It happened on a workstation, laptop and virtual machine!
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• 0x0 10y ago
  This will improve: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/windows-7-8-1-moving-to-windows-10s-cumulative-update-model/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/windows-7-8-1-moving...