That was it, thanks! I haven't installed it before, because it wasn't offered over WU, so I had no idea it was missing. And the MS link (in the error window) lead to a dead page.
I guess I was lucky. I installed KB4537829 before the other updates on two machines (both Win7 Pro), and all of them installed properly on both computers anyway. And it's true, KB4537829 can't be uninstalled. It also can't be downgraded.
Yea, good to know! SSU updates used to be rare, every half year or something. I also saw them coming in months later on some machines. Very suspicious that we have one each month now
It was my personal way how i install updates today. Maybe some steps are not needed, but job is done.
You do realize that what you call "rotten Rollup crap" is just a cumulative package of security fixes + custom optional updates? Installing these separately will yield the same result as installing whole rollup. Nothing, it will say you have all required updates installed already. Can someone confirm that installing KB4537829 BREAKS BYPASS This would mean they are aggressively patching the bypass and things gonna be grim in the future (unless the bypass authors willing to fix it every 2-3 weeks).
It may have been an unrelated single computer problem, other computers here installed the updates without problems.
i checked for updates, it shows only malicious removal tool even though i did install BypassESU-v4.7z, any thoughts on this?
Sure, countless times Monthly Rollups did break my Windows 7 install. When Security Only did not.. It is not just a cumulative package of security fixes + custom optional updates. Nobody knows whats inside the Rollup (also the case for the other updates ), its for sure certainly not the Security Only Update bundled with the Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer or smth.. The Rollup update is 315MB while the Sec only + IE update are both 50MB big. What is inside the other remaining 215MB ? I do not need that s**te.
You need to download and install the patches manually. BypassESU was never meant to make the Windows Update program working.
KB4538483 is only meant for official ESU Key users, to be able to have WU offering the ESU updates. Because MSIE11 is more integrated in windows, it is advised to update that one too (KB4537767) or the rollup entirely.