Fake news: Windows 7 updating has not been blocked.
Fact: Windows 7 has issues with scanning for updates that unless you've
maintained that box you will be scanning and scanning for updates
because of metadata issues in scanning for older IE updates (among other
things)
http://wu.krelay.de/en/
Look for that page to help to get the updates you need to fix up the
long scanning issues. Once you get those updates on the system, you
will be back in businesses.
On 5/15/2017 8:09 AM, James Rankin wrote:
Not sure if this may help
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3177323/microsoft-windows/microsoft-endorses-convoluted-technique-for-installing-win7-from-scratch.html
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Richard McClary
*Sent:* 15 May 2017 14:14
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [NTSysADM] Updating Windows 7 "Home" on old laptop
Greetings! Now that OS patching has become an issue lately…
I have an HP laptop, about 5-6 years old (don’t know date or model).
It came with a “home” version of Windows 7.
When the time came a couple of years ago, I let MS update it to
Windows 10. About a year later, the screen would start to flicker,
break into pixels, etc. Ultimately, the system crashed and became
unbootable. Given its age, I thought it was a hardware issue with the
display.
A couple of months later, I booted off a “live linux” DVD and saw no
problems with the display. So, I dug out the original Windows
recovery disk and re-installed Windows 7. Unfortunately, MS pulled
the support plug on older versions of Win 7. Apparently, only
installations past a certain patch level could receive MS updates.
(When I try anyway, it spends literally hours searching for updates
and coming up with nothing.)
Aside from buying a copy of Win 10 (hardware is not worth it, and it
is not my primary machine), is there anything I can download from MS
so that it can again receive security patches (such as the one which
was released in March but not applied on zillions of machines
world-wide)? Until then, I can no longer pay bills, etc while eating.
Thanks!
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