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Obtaining Extended Security Updates for eligible Windows devices

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Feb 11, 2020
  Update 3.14.2023: We have added a new table with ESU SKU IDs for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2. Update 1.31.2023: For organizations that need additional time to upgrade and modernize thei...
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Sep 08, 2020

KB4571729, the 2020-08 monthly rollup for Windows 7, was highly defective.  We reproduced its symptoms on multiple workstations. After uninstalling KB4571729, the symptoms immediately resolved on all workstations.  Among the bugs:

 

1) Windows Update runs forever and will not find updates after installing KB4571729.

2) Windows Explorer is sluggish.

3) The network connection icon in the system tray has a blue circle that either never clears or turns into a red x, even though there definitely was a network connection.

4) Large Word documents (with hundreds of pages) will not open.

5) Under Task Manager, Performance Monitor would not open.

 

Even the configuration process after uninstalling KB4571729 took a long time.  From these errors, it seems like KB4571729 is causing memory problems.

 

Today is Patch Tuesday.  I hope Microsoft is aware of the bugs with its August Windows 7 monthly rollup.