Simplifying updates for Windows 7

Last updated on April 17th, 2023 at 12:15 am

Windows 7 is now a pretty old operating system and most restore media that people will have for their machines will be a few years old. This means that when a restore is done with these OEM restore disks there will be a huge amount of Windows Updates to carry out.

Well Microsoft have now created a solution for this.

There is now a single update that contains all the security and non-security fixes released since the release of Windows 7 SP1 that are suitable for general distribution, up through April 2016. Install this one update and then you only need new updates released after April 2016.

This is an excellent release from Microsoft and should solve the headache of having to install 200+ Windows updates after a computer restore.

INSTRUCTIONS

To install this update, you first need to install this pre-requisite update:

KB3125574

Once you have installed this, you can then download the larger all-in-one update package from Windows Update Catalog using the link below:

KB3125574

Then install this update and that’s it, all updates up to April 2016! Now just run Windows Update and there should now only be a few limited updates.

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