KB2756872 is an individual .MSU file, but for Windows update it also includes two other updates under the same banner. Can't recall what they are off the top of my head, 2768703 and? I would look it up but have to scoot off now!
For some reason both my Laptop and my friends desktop (which have almost zero in common, besides running windows 8) got a strange Monitor flicker issue after applying the big 100mb update that came out Tuesday. Both computers just rebooted today to finally apply them, but because of it now whenever I get to where I'd normally enter my password, I'm instead greeted with a black screen and the monitor will keep turning off and on by itself as if the video signal is trying to do something. The computer also never loads past that point. I've tried system restore and Safe mode and I've tried everything I can think of. I am able to access CMD from recovery mode so is there anything I can try?
Tried uninstalling the audio drivers with no luck. Still can't get this to install on my desktop which I upgraded from 7 Ultimate to 8 Pro w/ Media Center. The update worked fine on my laptop which has a clean install of 8 Pro (no media center).
Had no problems installing KB2756872. It showed up in Windows Update and installed successfully. Now Win8 is rock stable.
Had to refresh my windows 8 installation to install these new updates. Uninstalling the audio drivers did not work..
Installation of KB2756872 went normal, but Windows update cleanup took half an hour to remove 51 Mb of unnecessary files.
@burfadel it looks like you don't need to maintain the Win8 "Old Update Remover": Code: msfn.org/board/topic/153742-dism-improvements-in-windows-8/page__view__findpost__p__1015509 has anyone seen this and played with it?
hmmm, I don't seem to have the option for 'Clean Up System Files' in disk cleanup. If it's not there due to having UAC disabled, then that would just be stupid! In terms of the lists, the dism command looks handy, I suppose it works like it should I'll still have to update the Windows 8 lists for the old installer removal feature., but I can change it so it runs the dism cleanup command.
"Clean Up System Files" option does not appear indeed when you disable UAC but the disk cleaner search for this option silently to be clear i am too have disabled UAC, and the disk cleaner search and offer me "Windows Update Cleanup" Option but after cleaning, i ran the disk cleaner again and the option did not appear.. because there is nothing to clean
That makes sense too I thought the tab might have been there regardless. I guess next update time it's something to check out! Interesting though is that the info in the link suggested the command line cleanup doesn't do a full job, maybe it's not the same or as affective as specifically removing the old updates? In Windows 7, you can use DISM to view superseded updates, but it only shows updates that are directly superseded. There were no options to remove these automatically though. It might be the case the new DISM allows you to automatically remove these directly superseded updates, but not the updates that have been superseded by other updates that are completely unrelated, but updates the same files to newer versions. I hope that makes sense! I know Komm would know that I mean, maybe he also knows whether the 'new' features completely remove old updates, or simply just remove these directly superseded updates. The disk cleanup function sounds like it still keeps the non-directly superseded updates on your computer, it just compresses the non active files (file compression?). I'm not sure exactly how it functions, but it still sounds like it won't completely remove the superseded updates.
but this is not what we want. This only shows updates which are replaced with a v2- or v3 version but not if it is replaced by a different KB.