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Cleaning Up The Script

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In my post Blocking Windows 7 Telemetry I provided a script to remove Windows 7 telemetry updates. This was done in haste from an older script and I have now cleaned it up.
One poster in the AskWoody lounge stated certain updates were no longer there. I asked him to provide some documentation so I could verify his statement and he did not.
So, I had to dig in and find the answer myself. I checked a few of the KB articles for the updates and there weren’t any notices about updates being removed or superseded. That is par for the course for Microsoft.
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Patch Tuesday

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For those hardy souls that install updates as they are released, it is time to run that crap-shoot known as Windows Update.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2017
If you really want to stay in the know, head over to AskWoody and Woody at InfoWorld.

Adobe Stuff Updated
APSB17-01 Security Updates Available for Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Download
APSB17-02 Security Updates Available for Adobe Flash Player
Download

“Fix Windows Update Errors” Almost Useless

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Over the past week or so lots have sites have pointed to a new Microsoft web page that supposedly helps you navigate Windows Update problems.
Fix Windows Update errors

Here is what it gave me:

Question – On which Windows version did you get the error?
Answer – Windows 7
Solution – Run the network troubleshooter

Like I don’t know if I have network issues?

Next Question – Did this resolve the issue?
Answer – No
Solution – Run the Windows Update troubleshooter.

In all the years I have used this, running this by itself never once fixed my problems.

Next Question – Did this resolve the issue?
Answer – No
Solution – Reset or reinstall Windows.

Really?

Getting too aggressive in pushing out of the Windows 10 free upgrade.

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This week on  TWiT – Windows Weekly, Chris Capossela, Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft said:
“… Getting too aggressive in pushing out of the Windows 10 free upgrade. We know we want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective etc., but finding the right balance where you’re not stepping over the line of being too aggressive is something we tried and for a lot of the year I think we got it right, but there was one particular moment in particular where you know the red X in the dialog box which typically means you cancel, didn’t mean cancel, and within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have we knew that we had gone too far and then of course it takes some time to roll out the update that changed that behavior. And those two weeks were pretty painful and clearly a low-light for us. We learned a lot from it obviously.”
Start listening about 16:00 into the video. The text above starts about 17:40:
Good to see someone at Microsoft knows what’s up.
And on a side note. Uh, excuse me, Um, what “listening systems” are we talking about?