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On 2020-07-01 11:34 a.m., Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:


Does 
https://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/11/how-to-block-specific-updates-in-windows-update/ 
help?  The advice is almost 10 years old but it fits what I remember.




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Re: Is anybody else still using Win 7 here?

[Don Spam's Reckless Son]

Daniel wrote:

Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote on 28/06/2020 9:02 PM:

Daniel wrote:

Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote on 27/06/2020 10:03 PM:

Daniel wrote:
Last Monday (so Sunday Evening USA time) when I checked my Windows 
Update portal, it showed there was an 80.6MB update waiting to be 
installed.


(Note: Last Monday, so not the normal Windows7 update, which, if 
there is one, I usually get on a Wednesday Afternoon (so Tuesday 
Evening USA time))


Virtually daily since, I've been having to re-boot my Win7 so it 
can complete the installation  but time after time after time, 
the update fails, so the system reverts to the previously installed 
system  until next cold boot!!


Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?? Can I, somehow, delete the 
Windows Update from the Control Panel screen  and hope things 
get fixed up/picked up next Update Tuesday??


Any other suggestions  APART FROM UPDATING TO WIN10??


What is the kb number of the update? Microsoft rolled out Chromium 
Edge to 7 and 8.1 too last week. Didn't do it on 7 because would be 
only for less than a year. They plan to discontinue it on 7 in June 
2021 and extended updates still run till 2023. So no point 
installing i.


FRG

Thanks, Frank-Rainer. The two updates are ...

Important (MS Edge) Update -KB4567409
Optional (2020-01 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Win7) -KB4539601

I'm being told there is 80.6MB update to install ... and the MS Edge 
(which I don't have installed) update is 80.6MB so it seems *THAT's* 
the update that is repeatedly failing!!


The Optional Update is *only* 314.4MB!!

I thought support for Win7 had been discontinued some time ago, anyway!


I fed that KB number into the search engine of my choice and voila!
https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-pushes-out-new-edge-to-windows-7-users/
If you don't want this and/or it is causing problems, I thought 
Windows 7 allowed you to blacklist updates.  My Windows 7 update 
setting was something like "Notify but do not install".



Thank you for the link, Don.

Anybody got advice on how to "Remove" the update?? I've de-selected it, 
so hopefully, in the meantime, that will stop it repetitively trying to 
install itself!


Does 
https://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/11/how-to-block-specific-updates-in-windows-update/ 
help?  The advice is almost 10 years old but it fits what I remember.


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Re: Is anybody else still using Win 7 here?

[Daniel]

As ChrisI has quite rightly pointed out this is not a SeaMonkey problem, 
so I should never have originally posted it here in m.s.seamonkey, so 
I'm cross-posting to m.general and setting Follow-up: there to continue 
the discussion. Thanks.


Daniel wrote on 27/06/2020 8:22 PM:
Last Monday (so Sunday Evening USA time) when I checked my Windows 
Update portal, it showed there was an 80.6MB update waiting to be 
installed.


(Note: Last Monday, so not the normal Windows7 update, which, if there 
is one, I usually get on a Wednesday Afternoon (so Tuesday Evening USA 
time))


Virtually daily since, I've been having to re-boot my Win7 so it can 
complete the installation  but time after time after time, the 
update fails, so the system reverts to the previously installed system 
 until next cold boot!!


Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?? Can I, somehow, delete the 
Windows Update from the Control Panel screen  and hope things get 
fixed up/picked up next Update Tuesday??


Any other suggestions  APART FROM UPDATING TO WIN10??


Thanks to prompting from Frank-Rainer, I noted that there were to 
updates listed


Important (MS Edge) Update -KB4567409
Optional (2020-01 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Win7) -KB4539601

and it was this "Important" update, which wants to install Chromium Edge 
on my Win7 system, that is causing my problem.


After several days of de-selecting this "Important" update, MicroSoft 
apparently knows my needs better than I and still wants to re-select and 
install Chromium Edge on my system.


Does anybody have any further suggestions as to what I can do?? Can I 
remove the Update from the Windows Update system somehow (although I 
suspect this would just result in MS sending the update to me again!!)??

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