Is there a way to see what a Vista system's Tuesday updates are and to download them manually?
Hi VFN:
Microsoft posts a Security Bulletin Summary every month (see their July 2016 summary at
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-jul.aspx) and Martin Brinkmann posts a similar list of monthly Windows updates on ghacks.net (see his July 2016 summary at
Microsoft Security Bulletins July 2016 - gHacks Tech News) but you would have to read through each of those dozen or so individual security bulletins to see if the update was recommended for Vista OS, find the correct download link (32-bit vs 64-bit) for the .msu installer, check for any prerequisite KB updates that had to be installed first, etc. I had a quick look through the July 2016 security bulletins and found at least five (MS16-085, -089, -092, -093 and -094) that do not apply to Vista and one (MS16-086) that has a .msu installer for Vista SP2 but isn't applicable since I don't have VBScript v5.7 installed.
Using Windows Update to search for appropriate updates is much safer (when it actually works
) because it does all this checking in the background. Each month I install the one new Windows kernel-mode driver (Win32K.sys) update added to Dalai's list at
Search for Windows Updates takes forever? - A possible solution, but only out of necessity to prevent the "
Checking for updates..." hangs. These standalone update packages (.msu files) are really intended for more experienced users like network administrators who run these .msu installers on a test bed to ensure they're safe before they are distributed to working computers.
I'd suggest that you try the instructions the
step-by-step instructions posted 16-Jun-2016 in m#l's thread
Updates not working, it has been searching for updates for hours first and see if you can get Windows Update working again. I was fully patched as of June 2016 so I only had to pre-install this month's
KB3168965 (
MS16-090: Description of the security update for Windows kernel-mode drivers: July 12, 2016). The initial
"Checking for updates..." phase of this month's Windows Update
completed in ~ 20 min (compared to 5 or 6 hours for my April 2016 and May 2016 Patch Tuesday updates). My entire Windows Update session, including download and installation of seven important updates, finished in under one hour.
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32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox v47.0.1 * NIS v22.7.0.76 * MBAM Premium v2.2.1