Updated: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...egrate-hotfixes-into-win7-distribution.45005/ LOG: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1886710
Apologies, I only saw this today. A MEGA/GDrive/OneDrive link would be much more helpful than a magnet download, it'd mean you won't have to have your computer active for others to download it. Anyway, I just put this on qBitTorrent as I'm writing this. I'll keep it in the background until I get a ping it downloaded. EDIT: It downloaded! Thanks a lot. I'll make a GDrive link for everyone's convenience now. That one's not an issue, thankfully! I can simply custom-craft a special .WA file that omits the 2015-2022 redist. It's why I asked only for the 18.4.30 Windows updates part.
For anyone who wants a version of the update pack before Microsoft broke support for non-SSE2 machines, here's a link for UpdatePack7R2-18.4.30: [deleted, it doesn't help; use 17.12.15, that's the one that works] Keep in mind you need to use the /IE11 switch to integrate IE11, it's not like the latest version that integrates it by default. I'll keep this up for basically forever, unless Google decides to pull something and take it down against my will. If you have an issue downloading it, tell me, I'll check here once per week at least.
The only reason I mirror this old update pack is for people like me who want to install Windows 7 32-bit on say, an Athlon XP/Pentium 3 or even a Athlon Thunderbird, all of which lack SSE2. Obviously on CPUs that have SSE2 or are 64-bit especially you should use the latest update pack, this is more of a helping hand for retro hardware enthusiasts like myself Semi-related, I do wonder when we'll ever get a variant of UpdatePack7R2 for Vista or 8.1...
While normally I'd agree with you, I don't see this as a reason to deny people the choice to do such, especially given dual Socket 370/462 systems can be very adept. If someone wants to run Windows 7 on an Athlon Thunderbird, I say let them. Sure XP is lighter and therefore more fit for the task, but what if I slimmed down my Windows 7 version via NTLite? I had a pretty good time with a super slimmed version of Win7 and a Pentium 3 Coppermine, and it's why I'm hosting a mirror of UpdatePack7R2 18.4.30 in the first place.
7 is really, really heavy on pre-SSE2 hardware, even if you remove stuff with NTLite. This also is very off topic so I'll leave it at that.
25.9.10 Added KB5065468-x64 with disabling telemetry and cpu check (replaces KB5063947-x64) Updated certificates respectively for KB931125 and KB2917500 for September 2025 UpdatePack7R2-25.9.10.exe Size: 820 MB (860 845 112 bytes) CRC32: 6998B7D2 CRC64: 35A40C25AC2F927F MD5: 22CE3FCCCA0834CC3B1ED9C30628AB4C SHA-1: C8E485F6C7F302677B4DB333132538AF0D337934
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1889855 Updated: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...egrate-hotfixes-into-win7-distribution.45005/ https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1516362 https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...-aio-iso-with-install-wim-esd-creation.79421/ https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1516361
Just a note for myself and others: If you have enabled UTF-8 as default codepoint for legacy programs under Control Panel's Regional Settings on Windows 10 and above, dragging ISO into the UpdatePack directly will result in a error code 83 so make sure to turn that off first.
So, I need to make a rapid update about this. Today on a whim I decided to experimentally install the 18.4.30-updated version of Windows 7 Ultimate on a Celeron Mendocino system, and I got the exact same result as Carlos did over 7 years ago, post quoted below: This made me remember the ancient time I tried combing through every windows 7 update to find the offender, and I concluded the December 2017 cumulative was the last without the issue. In Simplix terms, it means you need to get the 17.12.15 update. I'm deleting the 18.4.30 update from my Google Drive, it's worthless. Funniest thing, if one decides to dig into the forum, you can see the issue being told around that time, but it's heavily buried. Very inconvenient if you want to mess with retro hardware before the introduction of SSE2 lol
Exactly!! I had noticed some weird under-the-hood changes as well around that period. Monthly Rollup 2018-01 and later also introduced some Multithreading bugs in ntdll.dll A workaround to that was to disable Core Parking entirely.