Dave-H

In my experience, the updates for the 2007 Office Compatibility Pack often only update the converter files for Office elements, like wordcnv.exe for Word, excelcnv.exe for Excel etc. That being the case, the latest version of those files is the latest version, and there's no need to have installed intermediate versions. Of course occasionally, like last time, other files such as DLLs are updated too, but I would still be surprised if you weren't covered by the latest updates.

Are those updates only applicable to the full install of Office 2007? I have Office XP (2002) installed, with the 2007 Compatibility Pack as an add-on.

I thought the Office viewers were standalone applications. Do you actually get updates for it?

I've updated to version 4.5.2016.17. No problems found so far. Thanks @jumper!

Strange, I've seen no difference in performance with 52.2 over 52.0, but I do have a reasonably powerful machine which might make the difference. I also have eight add-ons installed too, and although browsing isn't as quick as with Opera 36 say, I don't think it's a problem, and I much prefer Firefox for other reasons.

Someone said that support for the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack finally ends in October. I hope after that this nonsense will stop and normal Windows/Microsoft Update patching will resume again!

There's an update for Silverlight too, for anyone that has it installed, version 5.1.50907.0.

Strange, I updated to Firefox 52.2 ESR today, and YouTube is still working fine for me. Mixcloud.com seems to be fine as well, but I don't think I can test soundcloud.com as I'm not a member.

Oops, sorry I had a brainstorm there! It's actually Opera 12.02 I'm running on 98SE, not 12.18. Move on everyone, nothing to see here.............

What's wrong with Opera 12.18, it works fine for me on 98SE, with a few quirks?!

Well that verson does not work for me. As expected, the KB890830 version just says it's not a valid Win32 application if I try to run it on XP.

IIRC all versions of MRT.exe after version 5.39.12900.0 just throw an error message if you try to run them on XP. I had no entry for KB982316 originally in my registry either, but having installed it , I now do. Looking at previous posts, I don't think it's a fix that's relevant except in particular circumstances, but I'm assuming there's no harm in having it installed anyway.

Well I'm certainly not going to be the first to try it! Someone with a non-critical installation that can be used for testing and doesn't matter if it gets hosed I hope will try it and report back.

Just as a matter of interest for those who may not know about it, there is a utility available here which will download from Windows Update or Microsoft Update for you, including saving the files for use offline. It's mainly useful in Windows 10, where it is otherwise impossible to see optional updates for some stupid reason, but it works in all Windows versions from 2000 onwards. It does replace the IE8 interface, but unfortunately still uses the normal update mechanism, so won't get around the extremely slow scanning problem! There are x86 and x64 versions in the package, but no documentation. It's pretty obvious how to use it though, and there is more information here.

It's all SSDs except for the archive drive, which is a 1TB conventional drive. 1TB SSDs are still a bit expensive, although I do now have one in my netbook! I'm still not completely certain I want to trust my archive to an SSD either, although it is regularly backed up of course (to another conventional drive.)

I'm on Version 1703 OS build 15063.296.

I think the only option now is to forget about any IE8 embedded Windows Update links, as they no longer work. They re-direct to the Windows Update FAQ page on the Microsoft support site, which no longer works at all in IE8. The address which now redirects doesn't seem to be stored in the registry, it's almost certainly hard coded. Just make a favourite or internet shortcut pointing to one of the addresses that heinoganda gave earlier.

Well it's fixed, but I have no idea why! I did some more investigating with the guys on Windows 10 Forums and tried the registry purge detailed here. They seemed convinced that there was still some policy in place somewhere that was causing it, and deleting those keys should have removed any traces of it. This apparently did nothing at the time, but the next day I started looking again to see if there were any other options, and although the message was definitely still there when I booted up, when I looked again later, it had gone! I have absolutely no idea why, it would be an enormous coincidence if it spontaneously fixed itself while I was investigating it, but I can't think of any reason why it would disappear, other than the extremely unlikely scenario that the registry changes I made took a while to have an effect! All OK now anyway, I hope the message doesn't come back just as suddenly!

Isn't that the address to get the Windows Update ActiveX components, not the actual Windows updates? I don't think there's any way of correcting the actual Windows Update site address, where the embedded link in IE8 is no longer working.

Should there be something in that last post? It looks blank.

Interesting, I guess the reports i saw showing it were actually about preview versions, and it never made it to the final version? That would certainly explain why it isn't there! So, how do you enable and disable driver updates through Windows Update on version 1703 of Windows 10? The option under System Properties>Advanced Settings>Hardware>Device installation Settings is still missing the option that it used to have to disable driver updates if you selected "no" there. Surely you don't have to do it now with Group Policy!

Thanks. I found that setting, which says it's been replaced in Windows 10 by the "Specify Driver Source Search Order" policy. None of these policies is configured on my system, in fact as I said earlier, the whole Group Policy system is disabled on my system as I have no use for it. I tried enabling it and toggling those settings, but nothing made any difference. Are you saying that the "include drivers" option is missing on your Windows Update Advanced Settings page too? Do you have any of those group policies enabled, and if so does changing things bring the option back? I would be very interested to hear from others as to whether they have that option present or not if they have the Creators Update.

Interesting that bulletin still lists Vista as a supported OS. I thought support for that ended a month ago! Vista users should still have had the patch back in March though. Are there any instances of machines on current fully patched operating systems being affected by the exploit? I'd be surprised if Windows 10 was affected, because as we all know, you can't avoid getting patched on that, unless you make a deliberate decision to prevent it! Let's hope that the next evolution of the malware is blocked before it has a chance to strike.

Another update on this. I think what may be "hidden" on my windows update pages is the option on the Advanced Settings page to "include driver updates when I update windows". That option was added in the Creators Update I believe, but it isn't there on my installation. I've tried searching for possible causes of its absence, but I've completely drawn a blank. I assume that it should be there, so anyone got any ideas why it isn't?

That's good to see, although a saying about horses and stable doors springs to mind! Hopefully at least it will prevent any re-occurrence, at least in the short term.