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Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7
Microsoft has released a "convenience rollup" update for Windows 7 computers. The update to the nearly seven-year-old operating system brings with it a number of security fixes and patches that Microsoft labels as "recommended." Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet: The convenience rollup -- officially known as Windows 7 SP1 convenience rollup -- isn't Service Pack 2 for Windows 7, but it's the next best thing. The new Windows 7 convenience rollup is cumulative back to Service Pack 1, which Microsoft released in 2011. (Editor's note, the convenience rollup consists of all security and non-security fixes all through April 2016.) It doesn't include updates to IE 11 (which are released separately) or updates to .NET releases. But it does include core Windows fixes, security fixes and hot fixes.Microsoft says that convenience rollup package is completely optional. "Install this one update, and then you only need new updates released after April 2016."
Does it bundle Windows 10 and telemetry?
Be or ben't
How much you want to bet that GWX.exe is bundled?
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
Very convenient indeed. Does it also come with the GWX nagware ?
...in that it gives you the Windows 10 nagging, telemetry, and other "improvements" all in one!
I click on the first link using Safari from my Macbook hoping to see some details. And why not? I run various MS VMs on my Macbook so I want to see whats on offer for me. Note that the link is simply "http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3125574" That seems reasonable.
The website comes back at me with:
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Update Catalog
This website does not offer updates for the operating system on this computer.
This website only provides updates for computers running Windows 2000 Sp3, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and later. If you prefer to use a different Windows operating system, you can obtain updates from the Microsoft Download Center.
Thanks MS.
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So why can't they just call it a Service Pack? Because their support policy would require them to extend mainstream support for 24 months.
do they have an windows 2008r2 one? New 2008r2 ISO?
Exactly what I was thinking. Amazing how you can be a honkin' big company and pull fast ones on your customers... and keep on getting away with it. If that's not a monopoly, I don't know what is.
Wow - you need IE6 or later. Just make it one big download! Geeez!
I'd rather contact that Nigerian Prince who keeps emailing me than fall for this.
In spite of what Mary Jo Floey says, Microsoft still appears to be totally focused on moving everyone to Windows 10. This "Convenience Rollup" looks to be little more than some pretty wrapping paper that attempts to hide Windows 10 upgrade preparations for the remaining Windows 7 PCs. It installs all the "recommended" updates, one of which appears to be Windows 10.
As in "convenience store"? Costs and arm and a leg and 10 times what it should, and in the end you don't get what you really need anyway?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
that when I reinstall Windows 7 SP 1 I won't have to wait 24 hours for automatic Windows Updates to run the first round of patches, because the list of updates is so big the manual update system chokes on it?
Seriously, Microsoft, this should have been done a year ago for that reason alone.
We are going to get the non-security updates force-fed to us. It is all or nothing. You don't want Windows 10, but you will get the bad practices of it anyway.
https://blogs.technet.microsof...
" Also today we are announcing that non-security updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 (as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2) will be available as a monthly rollup (fixes rolled up together into a single update). Each month, we will release a single update containing all of the non-security fixes for that month. We are making this change â" shifting to rollup updates, to improve the reliability and quality of our updates.
These fixes will be available through Windows Update, WSUS, and SCCM as well as the Microsoft Update catalog. We hope this monthly rollup update simplifies your process of keeping Windows 7, and 8.1 up-to-date."
Also note the part (not quoted above) where Microsoft states that updates will no longer be available from the Download Center, but only from the Microsoft Update Catalog. The Internet Explorer / Active-X only abomination.
In spite of what Mary Jo Floey says, Microsoft still appears to be totally focused on moving everyone to Windows 10. This "Convenience Rollup" looks to be little more than some pretty wrapping paper that attempts to hide Windows 10 upgrade preparations for the remaining Windows 7 PCs. It installs all the "recommended" updates, one of which appears to be Windows 10.
If you're running unpatched Windows 7 you're going to get fucked by scumware.
If you're patching Windows 7 you're going to get fucked by Microsoft and possibly scumware; eventually an update will roll in that will nearly cripple your system in one way or another and the only fix will be to either reinstall Win 7 and years of patches or upgrade to Win 10.
Agreed. Get it as an offline installer, and save it to the network. I still prefer images, but this is a nice option.
It's not the servers, it's the client-side load placed on the Component-Based Servicing sub-system as a result of the burgeoning dependency/obsolescense trees.
I'm not a litigious person. But this time, I hope somebody sues Microsoft (perhaps for loss of data). That might teach them a lesson (that's the only kind of lesson they can understand).
Get it as an offline installer, and save it to the network.
LOL .. see my Nelson post above.
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Does this invalidate/supersede KB2775511? I don't see it called out specifically that in includes it, or that it wasn't included (based on the KB page anyway).
"requires a working Internet Explorer to download"
oh well.
srs tho, can no-one supply a direct link? It should be available here, somewhere:
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=kb3125574
but the joys of getting MS Cat site and Active X controls functional appear voodoo rituals, the workings of which are lost in time.
Wouldnt mind updating a few boxes, but no way in hell im going through this nonsense on all of them.
Doesn't GWX Control Panel solve the problem? I installed this little app months ago to prevent unintended upgrades to 10 and just plain naggery, and I haven't seen anything since. But I also avoid "optional" updates from Microsoft, and only install those labeled "critical" or "security". Has anyone run this tool and still gotten nagged by Microsoft to update, like some "optional" update that defeats this tool?
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
Win10 needs betting nameing for big updates.
They should call them windows 10 SPX or Windows 10.X and not windows 10 build XXXX.
Windows 8/8.1 was really bad with that.
Only 23 hours to install, rather than 24.
Once you go Mac, you'll never want to go back.
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9120519&cid=52129849
direct links in post linked above - can someone mod that up pls?, is useful.
I've noticed many times before that Microsoft paid shills swirl the Slashdot forum posting lies and thinly veiled FUD - and usually there are a few sockpuppet accounts ready to mod them up. Please folks, don't fall for this paid propaganda machine.
These sockpuppets will possibly mod this post down, but no matter, I'll repost again.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Everyone posting is saying "OMG, it's full of spyware! I'm NEVER going to install this...."
That would be a mistake.
Since the introduction of Windows 10, the windows update servers that are serving the patches for Windows 7 have become unbearably slow. It now takes almost a whole day to download and install the 200+ updates.
Instead, you can just install this rollup package, and save yourself several hours of wating to install updates. This is a **GOOD** thing, people!
This post is retarded. There are a couple of updates that are included that I *don't* want. Do you really think that the convenience of getting updates faster by using this rollup changes my position on whether or not I want the unwanted updates?
Bingo, and ever worse the majority of the dependency hell is single threaded.. Holy balls.
The update requires a manual update from april 2015, therefore you can't just reinstall and use this update.
Also, using the old, decrepit IE only, ActiveX only site to download it.
This is stupid
Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
http://www.wsusoffline.net
As someone who recently installed Win7SP1 on a few PCs, my question is does this complete faster than installing the updates through windows update? On an i5 with 2GB ram and a 10MB internet connection, it took about 90 minutes to show the list of available updates, about 10 minutes to download, then about 3 hours to install. svchost climbs up to over a gig of ram, and it runs forever but eventually completes.
If this thing can install in 20 or 30 minutes it'll save millions of man-hours for small time IT, where people haven't built test labs and slipstream updates and whatnot.
I removed a series of updates that someone else posted. The next day I was called from Microsoft saying I am missing important updates. I was out of town and they didn't call back. Next week, did a couple more, then day after that saying I was missing important updates.
I have disabled the update service and will no longer be patching my Windows 7, the way I see it is I could be infected by a virus or I could be infected by a virus.
"... use AutoPatcher rather than trusting Microsoft..." AutoPatcher: Independent evaluation of Microsoft patches.
Information:
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Update Catalog
To use this Web site's full functionality, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer Downloads Website.
If you prefer to use a different Web browser, you can get updates from the Microsoft Download Center.
Fuck you M$!
That won't install any telemetry or Windows 10 related garbage? Someone should packaged those up, or at least write a script to allow people to easily download those updates.
If you are still updating Windows anything you're about to be pissed off.
"convenience" is so obviously disingenuous to label a software update it's obviously predatory.
The entirety of Windows is Global Mother Fucking Spyware and the bait is games. If you have a hardened 7 or 8 that came with your retail PC you may choose to keep it for the few games not on PS4. Hardened as in disable everything the OS tries to connect with remotely that you do not initiate, especially Windows Update... and firewall/hosts file all of the markmonitor shit too. You will have to search for the URLs and/or wireshark them yourselves. The pricks will update the list of IP's to connect to if you allow updates at all. Rinse lather repeat.
Bill Gates is where you read iniquity in the Bible. Hellbound people don't care. Apparently they don't pay people who would either.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, German version.
Tried to install the "convenience rollup" on my machine. Got the message "Dieses Update ist nicht fuer Ihren Computer geeignet" ("This update is not suitable for your computer").
Note that I could get it only through Microsoft Update Catalog in the first place, so a user error in picking the wrong version seems pretty unlikely..
Between this and other users' posts that warn about the rollup containing all the telemetry and GWX crap, I've deleted the useless update now and will go back to WSUS Offline Update (http://www.wsusoffline.net/). Semi-on topic, there are also some third party hints on how to speed up patching of a Windows 7 reinstall:
At http://wu.krelay.de/en/, the author lists a few updates that are supposed to accelerate the search for missing updates, if you install them manually before starting the search. I've not tried it myself yet, as I don't want to reinstall Windows just to try it out. But other users seem happy with the advice.
C - the footgun of programming languages
Turns out that you need to install Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64.msu first. My bad...
C - the footgun of programming languages