I have had my daily driver on 7 locked down with update disabled for months now.
What, exactly, do I have to do if I wish to bring it up to date with this package without risking any 10 shenanigans?

Simply turn on updates, but select the option "search for updates but manually download and install them", also important to DESELECT the option to install "recommended" updates like security updates.

Then simply wait, until windows tells you, there are updates available.

At that time go to the list of updates and compare the numbers to the list of updates to avoid. On every update you do not want to install, do a right click and select "hide". After you have hidden all updates you don't want, click "install" and windows will install only the updates you have not hidden. You'll have to do this on BOTH selections, the security and the optional updates.

Unfortunately you'll have to do this every time again, since M$ often re-releases updates by simply giving them a new version and the hidden updates will show again... :/

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Aloha, Uli

I was under the impression that this package could be a one time manually download and install thingy......
Guess I was wrong.
Meowsigh.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I was under the impression that this package could be a one time manually download and install thingy......
Guess I was wrong.
Meowsigh.

If you only want this standalone update, you can download it here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3156417

Goto method 2 and download the version matching your system.

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Aloha, Uli

I was under the impression that this package could be a one time manually download and install thingy......
Guess I was wrong.
Meowsigh.

If you only want this standalone update, you can download it here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3156417

Goto method 2 and download the version matching your system.

That is what I was looking at.
No buried 10 nonsense included?
Meow?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

That is what I was looking at.
No buried 10 nonsense included?
Meow?

I got this through windows update, i personally don't know for sure, but didn't find anything wrong with it.
Also GWX_control_panel is happy ever after, but i won't bet my life on it! ;)

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Aloha, Uli

I think Woody has given me confidence in this update (he mentions it near the end, after explaining the history of these monthly rollups). For now, it appears that this roll-up only really contains two benign non-security patches. This time. We'll see how the future unfolds on these rollups.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

From Howtogeek
How to get & install Windows 7 SP1 Convenience Rollup.

How to slipstream the Convenience Rollup

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Grant
Darwin NT

Nice links. However, rather than waste time burning iso images, use a virtual drive - I use MagicISO - Nifty little program :-)

If using NTlite to slipstream, install WAIK 1st before installing NTlite.

If using NTlite, select sources folder for Windows.

Microsoft has been conning Windows users for two months

Microsoft has been using a deceptive tactic to dupe Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users into upgrading to Windows 10 for at least the last two months, according to the company's website.

An oft-revised support document that Computerworld cited in a May 16 story about Microsoft's aggressive upgrade practices spelled out the workings of a pop-up notification that Windows 7 and 8.1 users had been seeing. The notification told those customers -- primarily consumers, but also many small-to-mid-sized businesses -- that the free Windows 10 upgrade had been pre-scheduled by Microsoft.

"Your Windows 10 upgrade will occur at the scheduled time if you close this window without either selecting Upgrade now or by using the link to change the upgrade schedule or cancel the scheduled upgrade," the document read [emphasis added].

It's unclear how long before March 23 Microsoft was defining an X-click as approving the pre-scheduled Windows 10 upgrade.

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Microsoft has backtracked on the "clicking the 'X' indicates acceptance" upgrade notification

Microsoft has u-turned over changes it made to a pop-up encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Users were angry that clicking the cross to dismiss the box meant that they had agreed to the upgrade.

Based on "customer feedback", Microsoft said it would add another notification that provided customers with "an additional opportunity for cancelling the upgrade".

The pop-up design had been described as a "nasty trick".

Microsoft told the BBC it had modified the pop-up as a result of criticism: "We've added another notification that confirms the time of the scheduled upgrade and provides the customer an additional opportunity for cancelling or rescheduling the upgrade.

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Wednesday May 25 2016, 11:56 AM

I'm in So. CA, USA, and, a bit ago, on our local radio news, there was a warning about M$ pushing Win 10 very hard.

My PC has all updates switched off. But, the past 2 days, my PC has restarted itself w/o warning for an unknown reason. I can't say if its M$ or not, but am suspicious. I run Win 7.0


Stay here on Earth. It's the only planet with DARK CHOCOLATE !!

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River Song (aka Linda Latte on planet Earth)
"Happy I-Phone girl on the GO GO GO"

Just did one of my random checks and KB3035583 reared its' ugly head again.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

The "free" upgrade cost me $60 to have it removed. It wrecked my pc. Won't try it again.

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The "free" upgrade cost me $60 to have it removed. It wrecked my pc. Won't try it again.

You got out cheap friend. Fighting this thing on two machines has easily cost me 40 hours so far. When all is said and done will be making an invoice to m$

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

I am still waiting for the first major class action lawsuit against MS regarding 10.
It has to happen, and I believe any such lawsuit shall be won.

I cannot recall such a coercive, deceptive, despicable manner of doing business in my memory.

For example, if an automobile manufacturer were to pull this stunt in a similar manner with the software that runs your car?

"Please pull over and park while we upgrade your engine computer to version 10. It's free. Really. For now. And once we have done that, we shall be able to update it anytime we wish to without your notice or consent.

Please apply the brakes to consent to this upgrade.

There now, that wasn't so bad, now was it? We can now track your every movement and sell that information to anybody we wish to. You may notice that your car does not behave exactly as you are used to. Please take care as your automobile drives the way WE wish it to rather than the way you wish it to. Have a nice day."

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

@Kittyman, first legit action would be itemisising costs on an invoice, Which I suspect M4 would more than happily pay, given the payoffs from Datamining and NSA, Next step after that would be individual small claims, following which would likely follow a class action, should m$ be found in violation of your constitution (which they are, by use of force/fraud)

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

@Kittyman, first legit action would be itemisising costs on an invoice, Which I suspect M4 would more than happily pay, given the payoffs from Datamining and NSA, Next step after that would be individual small claims, following which would likely follow a class action, should m$ be found in violation of your constitution (which they are, by use of force/fraud)

The only problem I see there, IE itemizing costs, is that as far as I understand it, the business users of older OSs are getting a way to brick wall the 10 onslaught.
The average Joe, such as you and I, are not.
And how do I itemize my cost and grief in dealing with their BS?
I could put a number on my pain and suffering at MS's hands....hours of lost sleep would be a big one.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

@Kittyman, first legit action would be itemisising costs on an invoice, Which I suspect M4 would more than happily pay, given the payoffs from Datamining and NSA, Next step after that would be individual small claims, following which would likely follow a class action, should m$ be found in violation of your constitution (which they are, by use of force/fraud)

The only problem I see there, IE itemizing costs, is that as far as I understand it, the business users of older OSs are getting a way to brick wall the 10 onslaught.
The average Joe, such as you and I, are not.
And how do I itemize my cost and grief in dealing with their BS?
I could put a number on my pain and suffering at MS's hands....hours of lost sleep would be a big one.

Well all reasonable, though tell that to the french airport that had to shut down recenttly, because no-one knew how to fix their Windows 95 machine.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

@Kittyman, first legit action would be itemisising costs on an invoice, Which I suspect M4 would more than happily pay, given the payoffs from Datamining and NSA, Next step after that would be individual small claims, following which would likely follow a class action, should m$ be found in violation of your constitution (which they are, by use of force/fraud)

The only problem I see there, IE itemizing costs, is that as far as I understand it, the business users of older OSs are getting a way to brick wall the 10 onslaught.
The average Joe, such as you and I, are not.
And how do I itemize my cost and grief in dealing with their BS?
I could put a number on my pain and suffering at MS's hands....hours of lost sleep would be a big one.

Well all reasonable, though tell that to the french airport that had to shut down recenttly, because no-one knew how to fix their Windows 95 machine.

Maybe, Jason....
It is time for the kittyman to give up his dreams and go into retirement.
I am getting increasingly disturbed by things beyond my control.
And getting older by the day.
Lately, I don't get the same satisfaction out of things that used to bring me great joy.

My faith in this project is immense and never ending.

What supports my efforts seems to be getting weaker by the day..

Meowsigh.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Well all reasonable, though tell that to the french airport that had to shut down recenttly, because no-one knew how to fix their Windows 95 machine.

I think it was actually running on Win3.1

How about the closure of English airspace when one of their systems went down in Dec 2014? That system was cutting edge, back in the late 1960s.

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Grant
Darwin NT