Will there be a Service Pack 2 for Windows 7???

Vlad Drac · 19 Jun 2013 at 08:22

Anybody know if there will ever be a new Service pack 2 for Window 7??
Have Microsoft just got too much on there plate fixing Win 8 so people will buy it to bother with Service Packs for 7 anymore???

theheyes · 19 Jun 2013 at 09:37

I doubt it personally. You're getting service pack content on a monthly basis anyway.

Bane · 19 Jun 2013 at 11:26

I've been waiting for service packs for all the previous Windows from XP before making new media. They all seem long overdue going by the amount of updates to download after a re-install.

bledd · 20 Jun 2013 at 13:33

Really wish they'd made XP SP4 and W7 SP2

Would save so much time during install.

linktoinsanity · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:10

bledd. said:
Really wish they'd made XP SP4 and W7 SP2

Would save so much time during install.

I agree, also would be useful for slipstreaming the updates as one big package as well.

marc2003 · 21 Jun 2013 at 13:15

i'm running windows 7 like the day it was released. :eek:

as i'm on 3G internet and i pay £11.50 for a 3GB sim, there's no way i'm running windows update.

just recently i had to cry when portal2 wanted to download 600mb before it would let me play it.

darael · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:17

I'd be surprised if the updates for Windows 7 were more than 500 MB.

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:22

I agree that it would be nice to have a SP2. Just simply to have it do all the god damn updates in the build instead of forcing your hand into the constant:

Check for updates
2billion updates found
Install Updates
Downloading Updates
Installing Updates
Restart Needed
Check for updates
18 Billion Updates Needed...
Loop
Loop
Loop

InfiniteNoise · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:28

Didn't Micro$oft say that they won't be making SP2 for 7?

You should be able to make a slipstreamed 7 installation disc with the latest updates, I think.

HeX · 21 Jun 2013 at 14:41

No SP2, but there is this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511

Which has about 90 odd hot fixes in it.

linktoinsanity · 21 Jun 2013 at 15:32

Idartalis said:
You should be able to make a slipstreamed 7 installation disc with the latest updates, I think.

You can, but it is not really practical considering the number of updates that you would have to download. A service pack would only really have to roll all these updates into one nice package so you would just have to download one thing to roll it up.

HeX said:
No SP2, but there is this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511

Which has about 90 odd hot fixes in it.

Nice link, may have to use this.

Vlad Drac · 21 Jun 2013 at 22:17

HeX said:
No SP2, but there is this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511

Which has about 90 odd hot fixes in it.

Nice find.

I'll use this next install.

lurkio · 22 Jun 2013 at 13:55

darael said:
I'd be surprised if the updates for Windows 7 were more than 500 MB.

after sp1 , windows updates are at least 1.9Gig

darael · 21 Jul 2013 at 20:45

HeX said:
No SP2, but there is this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511

Which has about 90 odd hot fixes in it.

Just tried this on a fresh install of W7 with SP1 integrated and it reduced the number of important updates from 84 to 80. I forced Windows Update to check before and after the installation.

Is there anything better than this?

jake108 · 22 Jul 2013 at 09:25

darael said:
Just tried this on a fresh install of W7 with SP1 integrated and it reduced the number of important updates from 84 to 80. I forced Windows Update to check before and after the installation.

Is there anything better than this?

There is slip-streaming using update-tools in RTSe7enLite however if you do remove components or any other thing it can break parts of the Windows 7 installation (System Restore, Windows Media Network Components etc).

How I do it is to extract the ISO, apply SP1 (if needed) then complete the slipstream. Restart the process then apply to updates, complete it again. Then add drivers or driverpacks to the slipstream.

The reason for doing this is on some occasions slip-streaming applies the updates in the incorrect order and can break things or cause other issues. It is a massive pain though if you are only doing it for one machine.

On one install CD after slip-streaming it attempted to download updates that consistantly failed with 8000FFFF errors. As the update was already applied to the DVD it did an update loop of 8000FFFF until softwaredistribution folder was deleted and WU disabled. Milage may vary.

panyan · 22 Jul 2013 at 09:44

jake108 said:
There is slip-streaming using update-tools

+1

Ive heard these save a lot of time, never used one myself though

Django x2 · 22 Jul 2013 at 09:52

darael said:
I'd be surprised if the updates for Windows 7 were more than 500 MB.

try 1.2GB......

Bry · 22 Jul 2013 at 10:19

you can always use wsus offline - saves you having to download all the updates everytime

darael · 22 Jul 2013 at 15:06

jake108 said:
There is slip-streaming using update-tools in RTSe7enLite however if you do remove components or any other thing it can break parts of the Windows 7 installation (System Restore, Windows Media Network Components etc).

How I do it is to extract the ISO, apply SP1 (if needed) then complete the slipstream. Restart the process then apply to updates, complete it again. Then add drivers or driverpacks to the slipstream.

The reason for doing this is on some occasions slip-streaming applies the updates in the incorrect order and can break things or cause other issues. It is a massive pain though if you are only doing it for one machine.

On one install CD after slip-streaming it attempted to download updates that consistantly failed with 8000FFFF errors. As the update was already applied to the DVD it did an update loop of 8000FFFF until softwaredistribution folder was deleted and WU disabled. Milage may vary.

Thanks for that, going to look into RTSe7enLite.

The downloading usually isn't so bad, it's the installation of the updates. Especially the .net updates! :eek:

KIA · 22 Jul 2013 at 17:44

.NET updates are slow as hell to install.