It works with all standard editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Pro (VL), Ultimate, Enterprise and their E and N variants. I've also used it on ThinPC once, but that mutilated copy of win7 is pointless enough, I just deleted it. Can't say anything about embedded editions.
The previous Simplix Update packs have similar sizes, but only this latest update pack "installed" new stuff that takes over 1 GByte on my system drive.
Is there a SVF or Xdelta patch that adds monthly updates & replacements to simplix file?, could save some bandwidth.without having to download whole 600-800 MB monthly. BTW is there any reason why nor Net Framework or Powershell included in Simplix, latest builds of both could have been included IMO. also is there any reason why original file modified timestamps are not preserved after installing Simplix? I installed Simplix last month & added this month's rollup manually by downloading official package Simplix updated files were changed to timestamp of when I ran Simplix, official package retained original time-stamp.
While the expended contents of the two packs are almost the same, but each pack is solid-compressed on its own, which makes them completely different files at the end similar to Microsoft ESD files besides, the main purpose of Simplix Pack is to bring OS up-to-date from clean state (or last updated before several months/years) for monthly updating, you can follow Simplix changelog and install the new updates from WU Powershell (WMF) is not offered through WU, and .NET 4.x is a separate MSI product, not a Windows update that's the default behavior for DISM tool (which is used for installing)
You can get Microsoft .NET and Powershell install files directly from them: Spoiler I cannot post full links yet, remove the space after https:// : https:// microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24872 https:// microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718 https:// social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21016.how-to-install-windows-powershell-4-0.aspx
I see, thanks for the info very helpful, is there a command or any other way to preserve the timestamps while applying simplix?
Upd7Live.exe takes care of the "online-only" updates installation and their cleanup, and it is launched from HKLM (not HKCU) RunOnce. You can verify this by loading image's SOFTWARE reg hive after offline integration. The value calling for this executable will be naturally deleted after being processed. However I'm more interested in "the other" actions that executable performs: disables (actually removes?) UTC (diagtrack payload in monthly RUs) and the patching?/replacement? of wuaueng.dll. An offline updated image initially contains UTC and CPU banned wuaueng.dll. It's only after OS setup is finished and before first logon that Upd7Live.exe also takes care of those. I have yet to try to find out the details.