Are Updates Still Available For Windows 7

Windows 10 has been out since 2015 and is now the most used Windows operating system. Windows seven was the about used for several years only is no longer supported due to its decade long back up cycle catastrophe. That means there are no more security updates unless you are a business willing to pay a fee. Many Windows 7 users simply exercise not desire to upgrade because the operating system is stable and does everything they desire.

Despite its popularity, the last Windows 7 Service Pack 1 install DVD was released way back in 2011. If you install Windows from i of those discs, there are dozens of patches and hotfixes found when y'all cheque for updates. Rather belatedly, Microsoft tried to reduce this problem by releasing the Convenience Rollup update in April 2016 which includes 123 patches. Simply even that is not enough and it yet leaves the system requiring dozens more patches to get fully up to date.

windows 7 updates after install

Instead of getting everything through Windows update, a quicker fashion is installing patches from an offline source such as a USB flash drive or hard drive. This is faster simply nonetheless takes time. A better option is to integrate all the updates into the Windows media then they are installed equally part of the original operating system. Windows XP has a popular tool chosen nLite to do this, Vista has its own version called vLite which doesn't work too well with Windows seven Service Pack i.

Here nosotros'll show you how to integrate the Convenience Rollup Update and all the other required Windows 7 updates into a Windows seven install disc. That includes Internet Explorer 11 and newer .Cyberspace Framework versions. This ways minimal updates are required from the start and Windows doesn't become bloated with hundreds of split up updates before you fifty-fifty kickoff to employ it. The process is quite easy once you've gone through information technology once or twice.

Downloading the Required Windows 7 Updates

The first thing you need is obviously a copy of all the Windows updates to integrate into the install media. For this purpose, we are using the Windows Updates Downloader (WUD) tool. Sadly the WUD Windows update lists have not been touched since 2015 and the project appears to be pretty much abandoned. However, with a custom third party update listing information technology'south notwithstanding one of the easiest programs to use for downloading updates and hotfixes from Microsoft.

1. Download Windows Updates Downloader (version ii.50) and install the program.

two. Download the following update list to match your 32-bit or 64-scrap Windows 7 install media. The beneath update lists have been created by Raymond.cc and include required patches and hotfixes from Microsoft to the stated date.

Download Windows 7 Updates ULZ File 32-bit (updated Jan 16th 2020)
Download Windows 7 Updates ULZ File 64-bit (updated Jan 16th 2020)

Notation that these update lists will be the final version as they include the final patches released by Microsoft before the end of support (whatsoever bugs or errors will be fixed). Optional update KB4493132 might be offered for download during an update bank check. This is the Windows 7 finish of support popup nag which is not required. Just ignore or hibernate the update.

These lists practice non comprise all bachelor Microsoft patches but those that will bring a standard organization up to date in accordance with Windows Update. Ane exception is the definitions for Windows Defender. Double click the downloaded ULZ file to import the list to the WUD programme.

successful install of ulz file

Note: If you lot don't go a popup proverb the ULZ file has been imported, for some reason your system has not been correctly configured to recognize the .ULZ filetype. The .ULZ is actually a renamed ZIP file containing a .UL file which is an XML file. To manually import the update listing, extract the .ULZ file with an archiver such every bit seven-Naught and copy the .UL file to the post-obit location:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Supremus Corporation\Windows Updates Downloader

When WUD is run the list should now be present in the drop down.

iii. Open up the WUD program, click Alter to choose the download folder for the updates and brand sure the Update List in the drop downwardly is for Windows 7 SP1 x86 or x64. To get your Windows vii up to date with patches and hotfixes download everything in all sections apart from Optional Software. Click Check all and uncheck Optional Updates if you don't want anything from that section. The total download is around 1.7GB for 64-scrap and 1GB for 32-bit.

check required updates in WUD

Optional Software contains the Malicious Software Removal Tool and the latest .Internet Framework with hotfixes. Expand the section to check what you want. They are not essential only fulfill the requirement inside Windows Update. Silverlight and Virtual PC are entirely optional and will not be required past most people. Click Download when y'all've selected the required files.

The list is split into a few categories so you can cull non to install patches containing telemetry or Remote Desktop etc. They tin exist manually subconscious from within Windows Update after checking for updates. If y'all desire to install the 2016 Convenience Rollup update and just security patches, yous tin just choose the required sections.

Integrate The Updates Into The Windows 7 Media

At present y'all accept the updates ready, they tin be integrated into the media. The developer of nLite and vLite has some other tool called NTLite that does a similar thing but works on windows 7, 8.1 and 10. NTLite has a shareware version so not all options are available in the complimentary version, but the needed integration functions can be used.

1. First and foremost you need a Windows seven Service Pack i DVD or ISO paradigm to hand. If you don't have one you can download an official Windows vii SP1 ISO which tin can be burned to DVD or written to USB later.

two. Copy the contents of the DVD to a folder on your hard bulldoze. An ISO can exist extracted with an archiver such as 7-Aught or mounted every bit a virtual drive and and then everything copied to a folder.

iii. Download NTLite and install it (a portable mode is available during install). On the first launch select the free license and press OK

4. In the NTLite window click the Add button and browse to the folder you extracted/copied in pace 2, click Select Folder. Windows 7 volition then show in the Source list.

5. Select the operating system in the listing you desire to integrate the updates into and printingLoad. The program will extract the Install.WIM to the NTLite Temp folder. The operating system will show equally Loaded with a green icon and a number of options will be available downwards the left side of the window. Click Updates in the Integrate section.

6. Click the arrow below the Add button and choose Folders and subfolders plant packages, then browse to the folder you saved the downloaded updates to earlier and click Select Folder. After a few seconds, the list volition exist populated with all the updates to integrate. If you lot likewise downloaded some optional software an "Unreadable or unsupported file" error will pop up, just ignore it.

Alternatively, you can elevate and drop private folders onto the window or select them via the Add button. Don't add the Optional software folder to avoid being shown the error. No thing how you add the updates, NTLite is smart enough to reorganize everything into the correct order for integration.

Note that if a couple of updates (KB3125574 and the electric current security rollup virtually the lesser) show in cherry-red, ignore it. This appears to be a minor issue with NTLite as it asks for Service Pack 1 to be in the update list even though information technology'southward already present on the install DVD (bold you take an SP1 DVD/ISO).

If you don't want to install the optional software of the Malicious Software Removal Tool, .Internet Framework and Virtual XP etc, you tin now brainstorm the task of starting the integration process. If you lot do desire to add them, get to the section on folio ii about adding optional extras. Then return here and keep with step 7. You tin can also integrate the updates first and add together the extras later.

vii. Click the Apply button, check the Create ISO box and choose the save location and file name for the ISO image file. Press the green Process button and wait for the integration to cease.

How long the whole thing takes depends a great deal on the speed of your organization's drives. A fast organization with an SSD could terminate in under an hr, a low spec desktop or laptop will have several hours longer.

Tip: The whole integration process can be sped up massively past using an SSD or fifty-fifty a RAM disk if you take 16GB+ of retentiveness. NTLite defaults to the Windows Temp binder to store its files which is ordinarily on the C drive. If non already, it would be a practiced thought to go to File > Settings and change the "Temporary directory" and peculiarly the "Scratch directory" to a folder on an SSD or RAM disk. Put these folders on the fastest drive your organization has with at least 10GB of gratuitous space.

8. Once completed, you volition have an ISO prototype which can and then exist burned to DVD, written to USB wink drive or loaded into virtual machine software such as VirtualBox or VMware Player for testing.

updates available after integration

With a cheque of Windows Update, y'all tin can run into we only have a few updates left, Some of them can be removed by adding optional updates like .NET and the MSRT. That would leave us with only Windows Defender definitions. Do be aware that y'all all the same might have hardware drivers and any other updates which are region or language specific to download, but the vast majority are now already installed.

Special Notation About the Final Windows Rollup Update

With the final January 2020 Rollup update (KB4534310), Microsoft has seen fit to show a nag screen on all consumer Windows seven machines. This informs you nearly the end of support and recommends upgrading to Windows 10. Y'all have to interact with this screen before continuing by pressing "Don't remind me again". That should stop the nag appearing anymore but every bit it'due south Microsoft, you can never exist certain.

Win7 eos notify nag

Although it's only a mouse click, if you don't want to meet this window after installing from an integrated install media, a few actress steps are required.

one. Download our EOSNotify_Del.bat file. During the Windows final setup phase, it will rename the EOSNotify.exe that installs to System32 and remove the 2 scheduled tasks that run the executable at certain trigger points.

2. After step vi in the NTLite integration guide above, go to the Mail service-Setup window. Elevate and drop the BAT file onto the window.

Eosnotify post setup in ntlite

three. Keep with the integration process past moving onto pace 7. The Cease of Support Notification executable is controlled with a registry value and the two tasks, the method we take chosen to use will remove the gamble of the executable running, either by mistake or by design.

Read how to add together the optional updates, how to update all Windows 7 editions in the epitome, hiding updates and fitting the media onto DVD on page ii.