It seems to work perfectly. The new V8 uninstalled the older VC++ and installed all the latest runtimes. I also ran through the entire SoLoR "update.cmd". Afterwards, the size of windows only increases by about 1GB - not 10GB like I thought earlier. At the end it also integrated all the folders. When the update.cmd says "File Not Found", does that mean that update isn't applicable? A bunch of updates in the x64 folder didn't get installed... When I checked Windows Update, I got the following: Important: KB2446710 (.NET 3.5.1 update) - ??? KB2539635 (.NET 3.5.1 update) - Didn't install? KB2536275 (security update) - Didn't install? KB2556532 (security update - Superceded) KB2570947 (security update) - Didn't install? KB2619339 (security update) - Didn't install? KB2639417 (security update) - Didn't install? KB971033 (Windows Activation) KB890830 (malicious removal tool) Optional: KB2515325 (Recommended Update) - Didn't install? KB2541014 (Recommended Update) - Didn't install? KB2545698 (Recommended Update) - Didn't install? KB2547666 (Recommended Update) - Didn't install? KB2603229 (Recommended Update) - Didn't install? Then I tried again from scratch with "Installer For Windows Updates V22.cmd" (command 1). I copied all the subfolder updates into the main folder. Is that correct for Win7 Pro SP1 x64? When finished, it was also under 10GB total so it only added about 1GB to windows. When trying Windows update afterwards, I got: KB2556532 (security update) - Superceded KB971033 (Windows Activation) KB890830 (malicious removal tool) How come this "KB971033" isn't in SoLoR's package? I was reading more about the terminology of updates. I understand the GDR is "General Distribution Release" and LDR is "Limited Distribution Release." What does "LDR placeholders" folder mean? Is it possible to just do all the GDR updates and not do the LDR updates or is that a bad idea?
Bulldozer: CPU AMD? and those with Intel? I don't understand, because I haven't seen any updates specifically for Bulldozer in the repo
Microsoft has pulled a patch which would make its Windows 7 operating system play very nice with AMD's Bulldozer. AMD said that "There are actually two updates needed for AMD Bulldozer CPU architecture and Microsoft just posted just the first patch one. Sadly the first one was not a lot of good without the second and AMD did not believe users would benefit in any way from it. A spokesman said that the patch was originally scheduled for the first quarter 2012 and then the users will see tangible performance benefits when using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. Those who downloaded part one might want to consider uninstalling it and forgetting they ever saw it.
@orbidia if you use update.cmd from SoLoR you may get a couple updates that you have already installed or are superseded show up in WU because if there is a GDR hotfix SoLoR skips the install of the GDR files and only installs the LDR mum
@Trinket - I tested shon3i & Burfadel initial vc++ runtimes on win7 sp1 x64 + solor's pack + net4 client + this reg key: Code: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\6E815EB96CCE9A53884E7857C57002F0\InstallProperties] "LocalPackage"="C:\\Windows\\Installer\\10ce222.msi" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\67D6ECF5CD5FBA732B8B22BAC8DE1B4D\InstallProperties] "LocalPackage"="C:\\Windows\\Installer\\10ce216.msi" WU will not nag you about kb2538243.
Does anyone have the link to the Microsoft website where you can search for a KBxxxxxxx hotfixes and then add them to a cart. Then you go to the "cart" and then download the hotfixes? I was using it the other day and I lost the link.
burfadel: My understanding of the difference between your Installer for Win Updates script and SoLoR's update script is that SoLoR's only installs the LDR branch if both GDR & LDR exists, whereas yours installs both branches, thereby providing a clean pass for Windows Update (at the cost of a little disk space for the unused GDR files). I've been using SoLoR's script since I like to keep things as lean as possible but I see that you continue to improve upon and add logic to your script. Would it involve much effort for you to add an option to your script that would install only LDR, similar to SoLoR's? Basically, merge the functionality of the two scripts to get the best of both. Just a thought-- no worries at all if you want to keep your script as is. p.s. the link for the Runtime Installer above appears invalid at the moment.
Update KB2592546 was removed from the repo as not only had Microsoft removed its availability, but some were reporting issues with it not working properly. The feature adds support for the multithreading system on the Bulldozer (8 integer cores but only 4 FP etc), but was reported to be incomplete and only part of the update. Microsoft released it by accident (apparently)... Although this update is specifically for Bulldozer support, its still valid for every other CPU that previous versions were valid for as its just a support feature that was added to it. Since the updates are cumulative (the LDR version), it incorporates all previous changes made to the files since the original (in this case, SP1) files. When the update is properly release, its fully safe to run on Intel CPU's as well. Although Intel CPU's aren't the main focus of the update, depending on how the update is done and the efficiency of the current system, Intel users may see a fractional increase in performance too. This would be due to thread scheduling optimisations etc. When the update is finally released in its entirety, it probably won't be classed as a hotfix, I would be thinking it would be an update pushed through Windowsupdate.