Microsoft's killer Windows 7 patch: Breaks networking, bricks legit 'Not genuine' PCs

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Microsoft's killer Windows 7 patch: Breaks networking, bricks legit 'Not genuine' PCs

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The networking bug knocked out the file shares on the main pc in my accountant's office yesterday. Took me a while to sort it out.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft ... nuine-pcs/
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Another former client has the file share issue today.

Hasn't affected my home Win7 file server because I don't allow it to update. It is ONLY a file server and nothing else. I don't even have a working browser on it.
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That's it. Fvck MS. I have updates turned off on only 2 of my 5, but now I'm going to turn all of them off.
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Well you don't want to skip them entirely on an internet browsing PC, but in Win7 I recommend setting updates to "notify, but don't download and install automatically". Then wait until the end of the month to install them. Let everyone else be beta testers.
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This kind of garbage just motivates me more and more to try out SteamOS or similar.
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Genom wrote:This kind of garbage just motivates me more and more to try out SteamOS or similar.
Same here. Early last year, I decided to give Linux Mint a try. I have it on a spare laptop using version 18.3. Works very well, especially the way it does updates: https://sites.google.com/site/easytipsf ... -explained

So if you are a typical user with minimal pc/software experience, it will only install levels 1-3 software updates. Levels 4 and 5 are not installed by default unless you want to install them. You have the option of having those visible also. I have all 5 show, and I install all 5 and had only 1 problem with a program called FireJail (sandbox for browsers). The new kernel did not allow the program to run, so I had to install the update manually for Firejail.
Another great thing about Linux Mint is after installing updates, you don't even have to reboot. If you have a problem with a new kernel, it's simple to go back to the previous one during the boot to the desktop.

This is the way Windows should do updates!

Once I boot to the desktop, all HD activity stops! I was really shocked to see this. Opening up software programs are really fast, and the internet browsers all work at a fast speed. No need for a AV program to run in the background. For the browser, I do have FireJail installed, ublock, etc. for addons.

I'm not sold on Windows 10 even though I have it on the same laptop as Linux Mint (I swap out the SSD). I have a new pc that I built with Windows 8.1 and classic shell that I plan to move to shortly from windows 7. I doubt I'll be moving to 10 any time soon unless things change for the OS.
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I mean my home machine runs Steam, minimal GOG stuff and WoW. Otherwise it's desktop stuff that there's a million open source options.

I tried tossing Solus on my laptop and fortunately? found out I have a hardware issue. At least it's still under warranty. Have to toss a SSD into the tower to set it up on and play with a bit. Give me something to fuck around with this weekend.
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Well, I'm going to keep my updates turned off, and I'm going to rely on this site that has only security updates only: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/2 ... 7-and-8-1/

Site has great instructions for "Option B" which is what I want. Each month, there are between 1-3 security updates only.
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They released a an update to fix the broken file sharing problem a couple of weeks ago.

The updates that broke file sharing were KB4480960 & KB4480970.

KB4487345 fixes the problem and should have been installed last week

NOTE: If you applied a registry hack to work around the file sharing issue, you need to UNDO that reg hack after applying this update.
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FlyingPenguin wrote:They released a an update to fix the broken file sharing problem a couple of weeks ago.

The updates that broke file sharing were KB4480960 & KB4480970.

KB4487345 fixes the problem and should have been installed last week

NOTE: If you applied a registry hack to work around the file sharing issue, you need to UNDO that reg hack after applying this update.
Oh, boy,, glad I saw this,,

I've 'hidden' the one ending in 0970; I didn't see the 0960 one in my updates.

p.s.,, -----------> I see two 2011 Updates for my refurbished Dell, FP, -
Security Update for XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 for x64 (KB954430
&
Update for XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2, x64 (KB973688).

Should I let them be?, - they're from 2011?

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and also two .NeT Framework updates.

I really don't want to screw up this laptop,,, Thank you : )
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XML Core updates are fine. NET Framework you should always do. That's a programming language a LOT of things are written in (like NVidia's graphics control panel, ATI too I think) and they find security flaws in them all the time.

You don't have to uninstall 960 & 970, the 345 fixes them, but if you uninstalled and hid that's fine.
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FlyingPenguin wrote:XML Core updates are fine. NET Framework you should always do. That's a programming language a LOT of things are written in (like NVidia's graphics control panel, ATI too I think) and they find security flaws in them all the time.

You don't have to uninstall 960 & 970, the 345 fixes them, but if you uninstalled and hid that's fine.
Thanks very much :-)
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