I tend to follow SInclair ZX81's Patch Tuesday update posts as I am also using Windows 7 Pro (X64). Yesterday I installed :- KB5046258 (Sec & Qual Rollup .Net4.8 Server 2008 R2 (x64)) KB5046705 (Sec Only Server 2008 R2 (x64) I didn't install KB5047486 as I don't use IE11. (I think I disabled it). Edited Thurs 14th Nov 2024:- apologies for my error in my original post. Since I posted saying I had not experienced any browser problems I can now report that my Firefox 115.17.0 ESR (x64) has crashed 4 or 5 times since yesterday.
Thanks for sharing your info & experiences. I follow your post month to month as my update process is very similar.
Both the updates you listed KB5046258 are the same and are for .net 4.8. Did you try to install KB5046687? That's the update which has been breaking some browsers functionality.
So you installed KB5046258 twice & did not install the Security Rollup? It is the security/quality rollup (KB5046687)/(KB5046705) that is doing the damage. .
Generally, I got chrome someway broken 2+ years before. Not completely broken, but with one annoying thing - if I use anything that use torrents to download (no difference if it is utorrent or game launcher found updates) - it also gives very high chance that all running chrome instances will hang and last chrome.exe can't be killed by all process managers I have, also the same can happen to all aps that use CEF, and the same - if chrome was not running - after it 1st start after use torrent protocol. Firefox works fine at the same time. Only way to get normal flow from this situation is only full PC reboot. I tried to google - and found just same cases but no solution. Probably it happened after one of ESU updates long ago, I'm not sure. @abbodi1406 can .NET ESU bypas cause such behavior ? Generally I see nothing another strange things having it installed. It looks that only msiexec behavior is altered and that shouldn't do anything with chrome & torrents... Now I got KB5046687 also installed and after reboot there be also KB5046258 and let's see what new bugs I'll get Upd: Yep, I got new bugs. Tabs on firefox and edge die immediately, uninstalled KB5046687 and it looks working again.
Good to hear that. Possible problems like this are why I never install Windows Security Updates soon after Patch Tuesday. I always wait at least a few weeks if not months to see if there are serious issues first.
I have also confirmed myself using a Windows 7 Ultimate (Traditional Chinese) VMware virtual machine that KB5044356 does not cause any visible problems, while KB5046687 causes Firefox ESR 115.17.0 to break. This is a picture of Firefox ESR 115.17.0 viewing a website after applying KB5044356 in the virtual machine : (Normal view) The same virtual machine running Firefox ESR 115.17.0 viewing the same site after applying KB5046687 : (Error in tab) We will have to wait and see if Microsoft will fix this problem with KB5046687 / KB5046705 or just leave it as is, disregarding the fact that it causes problems with Windows 7 x64.
My apologies ryegrass. I have edited my original post. As for KB5046687, I didn't install that because I used the Security Only update KB5046705. However, my Firefox browser has crashed 5 times since my original post, so KB5046705 also may be the culprit.
Regarding: "Licensing method": KB4528069 & "new" BypassESU-v13 I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and everything has been working great through October, and I think I have installed everything I want to install from November. I can see that I installed KB4528069 way back in Feb of 2020. Has that licensing patch been replaced by KB4575903 or KB5016892? I have both of those patches installed as well. I can not find anything back in the pinned section of page one about KB4528069 and it is no longer available to download from the MS catalog. After installing BypassESU-v13, I searched for updates in WU, and I only got some older patches for Windows 2008 R2, but I did not see the problematic KB5046682 or the .Net KB5046258. Is everyone just downloading the updates from the catalog or do some see the latest updates in WU? I downloaded KB5046682 from the catalog, but I am not going to install it given all the issues with browsers, but I am wondering if something is not working right since it did not appear in WU search? I have always been able to get updates from WU search until this month. The last SSU I installed was 2024-06 KB5039339 for Windows 7 Embedded Standard. I did use the standalone dotNetFx4_ESU_installer_v4 after manually downloading KB5046258 and putting it in the same directory. That worked fine. I also installed the IE security patch KB5046630 by downloading from the catalog and it installed with no problem.
For an experiment I double clicked on the KB5046682 .msu file I downloaded just to see if it prompted me about installing it. I got an error about "The windows installer module needs to be updated". I would think this might be related to why I don't see the update when I use WU search? Is there something I need to uninstall and/or reinstall?
Guys just waite with install this November Rollup KB5046687 first need to found the reason why this update break browsers it looks more programs no more work after install it !!! let the pro check first the will found it just Patience a bit!. Very Intresting old IE 11 still work.