Those hotfixes needed to be manually requested from MS. Their system would then send a link where the hotfixes could be downloaded. Probably >95% of users never even knew about the hotfixes or bothered to request them. That's one of the big things that makes abbodi1406's lists in WHDownloader special- it offers more thorough update/hotfix coverage than just about anywhere (except for @komm's KUC program, which offers a comparable selection for Win7 & 8.1). Even if the requested hotfixes are killed off, the lists of updates available here will still be much more complete than what's offered through Windows Update. And no superseded updates are in the lists here (unlike in WU's offerings).
They're digitally signed from Microsoft so I dunno why people would complain, but they also don't have to use it .
The only one I can not find is Windows8.1-KB3071675-x64.msu - Windows Fabric traces stop working on virtual machines.
Yeah, "WithoutKB3125574" category is nearly 70% requested hotfixes (>280 of them), so doesn't look good for it. It's a shame that MS may be stopping them, but inevitable with the push towards Win10.
Ah, I haven't seen that request page in quite a while (because I didn't know about that trick). Hopefully it is just a temporary issue then.
Did anyone manage to download something these days? Mail service wasn't working a few days ago, now the hotfixv4.trafficmanager.net server is down... so sad.
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/whdownloader-support-and-chat.44645/page-136#post-1500749 Yes, the MS hotfix server is still down.
I noticed the URLs have changed to Gitlab for the previous failed updates, except now they still fail and I have to download them in my browser and the links work fine, just wondering why they won't download in WHD.
You're right. abbodi1406 moved those hotfixes to that other server to help everybody retrieve them while the MS hotfix server is down. (And everybody should thank him for all the work he did to complete that. ) As you mentioned, the links do work directly from a browser but they're failing in WHDownloader. It shouldn't be a user agent issue since that other server worked previously, unless something is different in those new folders.. Hopefully abbodi1406 can figure out what the issue is. Thanks for the heads-up on it.
Did you try or installed Office 2019? click to run technology do no have separate updates like MSI, Office itself update internally