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I too looked first to WUD since it capably provided everything to integrate updates when I initially took on customizing a Win7 installation in 2012. Came back to customizing Win7 again last month but ran into the same trouble with WUD .ulz's ending in early 2015. A useful post somewhere pointed to WHDownloader being currently supported and it was able to download everything as well as WUD. I didn't run into any obsolete KBs and only had to sift out the recent Win10 forced update related KBs. I also found that WHD has good notation on each update and categorizes them into separate labelled folders. Can't remember which site led to finding WHD, but I appreciate all of the various forums providing great info on getting M$ Windows to do what we need it to. I hope providing the best solutions is the bottom line no matter where they originate from.

Thanks for that perspective. I'll leave WFP on and not worry about it. Figures it doesn't have much teeth except maybe to recover from boneheaded deletion. Curious what your Win7 component removal list looks like to arrive at 2GB install size. Did you make the build with NTLite or another method?

"Other" forum? Does that mean WHDownloader is not considered the logical continuation to use after WUD because it is supported via a different forum? I used it last month and was able to get all the 2015 updates I needed and integrate them into a Win7 install via NTLite.

Sounds promising. I take it that apart from sfc /scannow complaining it can't fix everything, you've found no other bad effects from leaving WFP enabled after downsizing away components which had protected files? Agreed, Win7 recovery is flimsy at best. The only other useful function of WFP is that it should help to prevent malware modifying system files. But I don't know how effective it is at that task either.

Recently built and installed custom Win7 Ultimate using NTLite. But old habits die hard and I couldn't resist removing several junk Win7 components and features during customization. Haven't done much tweaking yet and decided to run a WFP protected files scan. Not surprising, there are some corrupt files found that cannot be fixed by WFP due to being completely removed. I'm not opposed to the idea of keeping WFP enabled for now, but there's no method I've ever heard of to modify which files will receive WFP protection. It wouldn't be much hassle to restore removed components/features and likely allow WFP to function smoothly. What do you say? >>> Will it be problematic to leave WFP enabled but helpless to fix all problems it finds? <<< >>> Better to forget about downsizing junk Win7 components altogether? <<< > sfc /scannow reports: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. > excerpt from cbs.log follows: 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000388 [sR] Repairing 3 components 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000389 [sR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000396 [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:76{38}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US"\[l:52{26}]"WindowsAnytimeUpgrade.adml"; source file in store is also corrupted 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000397 [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:76{38}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US"\[l:26{13}]"AutoPlay.adml"; source file in store is also corrupted 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000398 [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:76{38}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US"\[l:46{23}]"ShellWelcomeCenter.adml"; source file in store is also corrupted 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 00000399 [sR] Cannot repair member file [l:52{26}]"WindowsAnytimeUpgrade.admx" of Microsoft-Windows-Shell-GroupPolicy, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, file is missing 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039a [sR] This component was referenced by [l:292{146}]"Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514.Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-AdmFiles-Update" 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039b [sR] Cannot repair member file [l:26{13}]"AutoPlay.admx" of Microsoft-Windows-Shell-GroupPolicy, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, file is missing 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039c [sR] This component was referenced by [l:292{146}]"Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514.Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-AdmFiles-Update" 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039d [sR] Cannot repair member file [l:46{23}]"ShellWelcomeCenter.admx" of Microsoft-Windows-Shell-GroupPolicy, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, file is missing 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039e [sR] This component was referenced by [l:292{146}]"Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514.Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-AdmFiles-Update" 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 0000039f [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:64{32}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions"\[l:52{26}]"WindowsAnytimeUpgrade.admx"; source file in store is also corrupted 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 000003a0 [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:64{32}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions"\[l:26{13}]"AutoPlay.admx"; source file in store is also corrupted 2016-01-05 16:02:41, Info CSI 000003a1 [sR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:64{32}]"\??\C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions"\[l:46{23}]"ShellWelcomeCenter.admx"; source file in store is also corrupted > if you can decipher above, removed components/features included Windows Anytime Upgrade, Autoplay, and Welcome Center which WFP sees in connection to the Group Policy client