Windows Update Problem since March 2015 Patch Tuesday

[Kick]

Hi,

 

I am not especially asking for help but would like to share my experience relating to the following. I have four security updates that have reappeared for downloading and installing a few times since the March 2015 Patch Tuesday. they are KB3031432 and KB3004375 (both classed as security updates for Windows 7) and KB3032359 and KB3021952 (which are classed as Cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7). I soon established a link between the reappearances and my use of the Windows Disk Cleanup facility.

 

This was confirmed when I searched online and found many reports relating to the four updates and the use of Windows Disk Cleanup. It appears that Disk Cleanup, for some reason valid or otherwise, cleans out the four updates and the Windows Update Service then establishes that the items are missing. Whether the update service should have been updated itself to no longer to recognize the need for the four updates, I don't know but the outcome is Disk Cleanup wants to remove them and Windows Update wants to restore them - it has become a never-ending cycle inadvertently contrived by Microsoft. The problem affects both 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 systems but I cannot see any references to similar problems on other Windows operating systems.

 

I tend to use Disk Cleanup after major updates, installations and uninstallations - those who never or rarely use the disk cleanup utility may not have noticed the problem. Common advice suggested online is that Windows 7 users who wish to run the disk cleanup facility can use the following temporary 'get around', until Microsoft produces a fix: untick the Windows Update Cleanup option within the Disk Cleanup facility.

 

I hope this all makes sense and is useful. Regards to all.

[allheart55 Cindy E]

Good to know! Thanks, Kick.

[allheart55 Cindy E]

Thanks again, Kick. :thumbsup:

 

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