There's a simple reason for disabling/enabling the CPU mitigations. Speed. Plain and simple. Many many older CPUs will become much slower with the fixes enabled (missing PCID). You can test with InSpectre et al and decide for yourself.
Code: File: UpdatePack7R2-18.6.15.exe Size: 683 MiB CRC-32: 7936112a MD5: 21d65a87d2734bbaea6eca04554fd0e1 SHA-1: 7a9049a5aae609c92bb4b39e99e527c01b5d0b25 SHA-256: 1d8e7a6351a0b6133a50379c0a299db571e727d1ecf6e3d0adfce49cb49e4661 SHA3-256: 36195a9a9334b649edb7d5e58fb365cbeba54e47c344371286cc7612f0203f1c
I downloaded the Patch from source and updated previous Pack to UpdatePack7R2-18.6.15.exe, checked my Checksum information with LostED's and both are the same. Then installed it yesterday on Online Win7 Ultimate x64 Spanish, all was fine. Not a single problem.
When using the UpdatePack, Windows update should be disabled (to not offer all patches that would bring back telemetry updates) and only the following UpdatePack should be installed instead? And if the above should be true, how do you handle updates for Microsoft Office?
You can always turn WU back on(just make sure you selected "never check for updates" in the settings) and check for updates manually.
Afaik, nothing happens, i never set it to never check for updates and it worked all the time during the tests i did. It's probably for the telemetry avoiders
windows 7 valid after january 2020 hi recommand to install windows 7 posready 32 or 64 bit download the language pack dvd to install your language activate with kms because windows 7 posready are valid up to 13 october 2021 2years after windows 7 end of life, because xp registry hack are no valid for windows 7 or install manually update are not best methode
one year + 10 month exactly good for computer locked to windows 7 because upgrade to windows 8.1 or 10 are not possible .
KB4338818 is not totally pulled they just metadata hid it it require installing June KB4284826 to show up unchecked (or setting IgnoreDownloadPriority = TRUE in searcher, but that not possible with WU interface) likewise .NET rollup they did it before with March KB4088875