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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - 64 Bit, issues with Windows Update & Boot DVD!
GuruSR:
--- Quote from: Boggin on November 16, 2016, 02:33:41 pm ---Well I have all updates installed except these three that I have hidden - KBs 3020388, 2923545 and 2952664 and my Toshiba Win 7 is in the process of a repair install having passed the compatibility check using my universal Win 7 ISO disk.
The Locale and language is English (UK).
Do you want me to send you a couple of these install disks ?
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All versions of Windows from XP up, have identical Recovery consoles on each platform change (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10), Service Packs won't matter, nor will language versions, the issue is, it's not recognizing the installed version as being the same after the Convenience Rollup was done. I'm thinking now that it *could* be a language issue which I am going to wait for the person dealing with the issues on the Rollup to get back to me on, since there *is* a fix for the language issue for Canadians (which I am one, but did install it as US to avoid any issues). I also have access to all versions of Windows 7 64bit, along with other OSs, I have the International English version (UK) and it will make no change to the operation of the recovery console.
GuruSR.
Boggin:
I've checked my Win 7 laptop and found I don't have KB3125574 installed.
However, after each month's updates I run Disk Cleanup as an admin and that cleans out the WinSxS folder of obsolete updates.
Give this a try if you've never done it by going Start - type disk cleanup then right click on Disk Cleanup and select Run as administrator and then see if your install disk is rejected - I assume you are using the correct disk given how many you have ?
Reboot a couple of times for it to reconfigure the updates.
If you've never run this before, you will see that it will free up a few GBs of space and then a defrag may be beneficial.
GuruSR:
--- Quote from: Boggin on November 17, 2016, 01:59:47 am ---I've checked my Win 7 laptop and found I don't have KB3125574 installed.
However, after each month's updates I run Disk Cleanup as an admin and that cleans out the WinSxS folder of obsolete updates.
Give this a try if you've never done it by going Start - type disk cleanup then right click on Disk Cleanup and select Run as administrator and then see if your install disk is rejected - I assume you are using the correct disk given how many you have ?
Reboot a couple of times for it to reconfigure the updates.
If you've never run this before, you will see that it will free up a few GBs of space and then a defrag may be beneficial.
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Actually, the KB3125574 is the Convenience Rollup which has an issue with it removing installed updates (that hasn't been rectified, so I'm not about to try Disk Cleanup because of that, until that issue is fixed, I'm not about to damage my updates). As for defragging, this is on an SSD, defragging an SSD reduces overall lifespan and won't improve performance at all. And since this is a new install, GBs of space won't come back, as the Covenience Rollup is actually lighter than all the separate updates, so I have less used space than someone who did them all one at a time.
GuruSR.
Boggin:
I wasn't aware you were using a SSD.
All I can say is that I've never had any problems after running Disk Cleanup in that manner and your restore points won't go back that far to pre-Rollup.
The Disk Cleanup only removes updates that have been superseded by those that came after the Rollup and are just bloating your WinSxS folder.
This is why MS released an update in Dec. 2013 to clean out the bloat.
I think I've had that WMI error but just ignored it, but the update problems are something else.
Have you ran a sfc /scannow of chkdsk /f to see what they report ?
GuruSR:
I'm avoiding it because the author of the site for the Convenience Rollup bugs, lists important updates which will get removed during Disk Cleanup.
Though I really would like to solve this no consent request for the settings and hiding of updates in Windows Update, somewhat annoying I can't change anything. They've got the shield on them and they're not grayed out, click them and nothing happens.
GuruSR.
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