It does take awhile for the program to download all the files (especially the “security only” ones), and that of course depends on your internet connection speed. Usually a second computer is used to download all the needed files, then transfer the whole package to the target system via a thumb drive (it works better if the process is run from the target systems’ hard disk). I used to use this program to update a fresh installation of Windows 7 on a new hard disk, took anywhere from 2 to 4 hours (depending on the “horsepower” of the system) after first installing Windows 7. You will have to use the “Legacy Windows” tab on the program screen, then select “use ‘security updates’ instead of ‘quality rollups’” Once you get into the program, there is an option to download “security only” updates instead of “quality rollups”. Scroll down the page a bit, and you will find the last version that supported downloading Windows 7 updates, that would be version 11.9 You might want to check out this web site: The only other way of making a Win7 computer secure would be to install the latest (and last) bog standard monthly rollup (which contains all previous patches and all the feature updates), and then run some scripts to pull all the undesirable telemetry patches out. So my question is has anyone created a ‘security only’ rollup than can be applied after kb3125574, to save having to individually apply the multitude of monthly security updates – many of which require a reboot?

In addition to the above, I see Microsoft has been up to its old tricks, sneaking feature updates into security only patches: It’s been a while since I did the ‘security only’ patches, I got bored of trying to find them, download them, and apply them one at a time.

So how many security only patches is that? ~40 (some months didn’t get a patch). The only way of doing this – that I know of – is to apply the official SP1, then the unofficial SP2 (KB3020369 then kb3125574), then individual monthly ‘security only’ patches from mid 2016… Now that Microsoft has stopped issuing patches (to the general public) for Win7, has anyone created an unofficial SP3 that applies only security patches?

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