I ran manual updates and installed all of them. One of the last “Updates” they sent out was meant to disable Windows Updates. Once in a blue moon Security Updates ( I think in 2017, 2019) Malicious remover (what has it ever done for me), If you have Windows Update running, you will see updates that were And that does include taking whatever updates are offered via Windows or Microsoft Update. Regardless of which operating system version you run, my advice remains to keep everything as up to date as possible. I expect some day, after Windows 10 comes to its end-of-life, I’ll write another version explaining what’s still getting updated even when that operating system itself is not. If this article seems hauntingly familiar, it’s because it’s based in part on Why Am I Still Getting Updates for Windows XP? Each will have its own update mechanism, unrelated to Windows Update.Īnd each will have its own way of notifying you when Windows 7 is no longer supported. Third-party software may continue to support its Windows 7 versions for varying lengths of time. It’s worth mentioning that end of support for Windows 7 doesn’t mean end of support for all the software you have installed, be it Microsoft software or not. Windows 7 has been out of support for long enough now that I’d be surprised if anything else rose to the level of being an exception and requiring an update. Since Edge isn’t part of the operating system, it may continue to be updated for however long Microsoft chooses to do so. I’ve heard rumors that with the demise of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has pushed the latest version of Edge to some Windows 7 machines. It was an important enough problem at the time that Microsoft made an exception. One exception to “end of support” occurred when Windows XP Internet Explorer was updated at least once not long after support had supposedly ended. Microsoft Update is really just Windows Update checking the update status of more software, so it comes through the same interface you’re used to seeing. And as a result, those software updates will continue to be provided until support for the product ends. That allows Windows Update to update other Microsoft software.ĭepending on the version of your other Microsoft software - Microsoft Office being the most common - it may still be supported. Windows Update can be enabled to update more than just Windows itself by enabling “Microsoft Update” (which most people do). So you’ll probably see the Microsoft Security Essentials updates for however long Microsoft chooses to keep updating that tool. It’s a software package independent of Windows 7 that you very likely installed separately long ago.Įven though it’s kept up to date using a Windows 7 tool - Windows Update - it’s not considered a part of Windows 7. The technicality is that Microsoft Security Essentials is not part of the Windows 7 operating system. In the image at the top of the page, one of the updates I was set to receive in July of 2021 was the “ Malicious Software Removal Tool”, or MSRT. If you’re using Microsoft Security Essentials as your security software, it may very well still be getting database updates and software updates via Windows Update. The operating system is not going to be fixed. ![]() If a failure of some sort is discovered in Windows 7 at this point, you’ll just have to live with it or work around it. No more security updates would be provided for the operating system. ![]()
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