Patch Tuesday updates also come to Windows 7 and 8.1, as well as Windows 10.

• As small as they are, the updates for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have arrived.
  
• Patch Tuesday is when the software for the old operating systems was sent out.
• The downloads for these updates should start automatically, but we added download links in case they don't.
• Microsoft officials are very concerned that people don't use the most recent version of the Windows OS.

Several years have passed since most of us left both Windows 7 and 8.1 behind. We moved on to newer, safer, and faster versions of the operating system.

When you see that we're already using Windows 11 now, you can see how much time has gone by since then.

These two old operating systems have been out of mainstream support for a long time now, but Microsoft hasn't forgotten about them. They are now in extended security update (ESU) support, which means that they can still be updated.

Thus, during this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft also released a cumulative update for users who were already on these versions.

Everything new for Windows 7 is on this list

KB5011552 doesn't make a lot of changes to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. It just makes a few small changes to how administrators manage their work, though.

• Removes SHA1-signed security and non-security fixes from Windows Embedded platforms and signs the fixes with SHA2 in this release to address the deprecation of SHA1 on these platforms.
• "Fixes" a problem that happens after the January 2022 Windows update is installed on the Primary Domain Controller emulator (PDCe). When you use Netdom.exe or the "Active Directory Domains and Trusts" snap-in to list or change name suffixes routing, you may get the error message "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service."

There are problems that have already been found and are being worked on

• Following the installation of this update and the restart of your device, you may get the error message "Failure to configure Windows updates. Reversing the changes. Make sure you don't turn off your computer. If you do, the update might show as Failed in your Update History.
• You may get an error message when you try to do things like rename files or folders that are on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). This message says, "STATUS BAD IMPERSONATION LEVEL (0xC00000A5)." if you do this from a process that doesn't have admin rights, the CSV owner node will not be able to be changed.

Windows 8.1: Is it better than Windows 8?

When this OS comes out, it's a little bigger than when its predecessor came out. The difference isn't that big. KB5011564 actually talks about an issue where some low-integrity process apps might print out of the blue.

• Problem: When you try to write a service principal name (SPN) alias (like www/contoso), but HOST/NAME is already on another object, you can't write the alias. It says "Access Denied" when someone has the right to write to the SPN attribute of the colliding object.
• Netdom.exe or the "Active Directory Domains and Trusts" snap-in may not work after the January 2022 Windows update has been installed on the Primary Domain Controller emulator (PDCe). This means that when you try to list or change name suffixes routing by using these programmes, you may get an error message: "There are not enough system resources to complete the requested service."

There are problems that have already been found and are being worked on

You may get an error message when you try to do things like rename files or folders that are on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). This message says, "STATUS BAD IMPERSONATION LEVEL (0xC00000A5)." if you do this from a process that doesn't have admin rights, the CSV owner node will not be able to be changed.

It might not work for apps that use the Microsoft.NET Framework to get or set Active Directory Forest Trust Information after you install updates released on January 11, 2022 or later. The apps might not work, or you might get an error message from the app or Windows. Some of the time, you might also get an access violation (0xc0000005) message.

A direct link to download the file is here.

It should happen automatically, but if you want to speed things up, you can go to Windows Update and manually update your computer, but that's not always the best way to do it.

It's also important to note that this Windows 7 update is only for people who pay to keep their computer up to date. 

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