Good News for Windows 7 users

[Alaric]

Found this tonight. http://arstechnica.com/information-...w-has-a-service-pack-2-but-dont-call-it-that/ Not exactly SP2, but having recently reinstalled W7 SP1 and all the updates required to get things current, I thought this would be welcome news for anyone looking at the same situation. I'll be downloading and saving it for future reference.

 

[JLK03F150]

Wish I'd found this rollup on Sunday. I did a Win7 reinstall on my notebook and WU refused to work for me. It was checking for updates for more than 24 hours. I'm using WSUS_Offline now & it has been somewhat working, but still not finished installing 200+ updates.

Tried to download the not-SP2 with FF, telling me I need to use IE6 or better.

 

[Alaric]

I've had nothing but problems with WU since my reinstall. I ended up with a third party tool. I've run more WU repair programs than I can count, at least 3 from M$, all to no end. Action Center can't download a fix for a driver issue, either. It's like AMD's driver crew is in charge of WU. LOL

Tried to download the not-SP2 with FF, telling me I need to use IE6 or better.

Yeah, that's annoying but you can run IE just for that and uninstall it if you want.

 

[MattNo5ss]

Direct download links for prerequisite (KB3020369):

x86
x64

Direct download links for "Definitely Not SP2" (KB3125574):

x86
x64

No IE required

 

[JLK03F150]

Nice! I still have a Vista folder I need to install Win7 Pro, then to Win10 to get the key upgraded.
Thanks Matt