In case you encounter the unbundled
KB3146449 separately from KB3139929, just consider it
yet another update to avoid.
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These are the current March 2016 Windows® 7 Professional x64 updates to be evaluated.
KB3118401 KB3121255 KB3135983 KB3135988 KB3135996 KB3138910 KB3138962 KB3139398 KB3139852 KB3139914 KB3139929 KB3139940 KB3140410 KB3140735
After 25 years of patching Windows®, I doubt if any of these are really necessary.
OK, I've got it all sorted out as of yesterday.
I haven't checked the security news today, because I don't intend to do any further operating system updating until sometime in late summer, say in about a half year.
I'm tired of looking into this
Microsoft Windows® Update madness.
Anyhow there are plenty of folks out there who have never, ever updated their vanilla Win7 installs, and run without any problems.
So unless there's a mandatory security update needed due to a newly discovered exploit, I'm sure that going six months or more between OS updates will be fine.
Especially with a good system backup.
One of the 14 updates listed above,
KB3139929, was immediately flagged by the experts as malicious.
Once a computer has been upgraded to .NET 4.6.1 (KB3102433), then update KB3135996 becomes obsolete and is replaced with KB3136000.
Also KB3118401 and KB3121255 both are for .NET 4.5, and are made obsolete with the .NET 4.6.1 installation.
The final result is 11 more updates that seem OK at this time.
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Windows® Updates for March 16, 2016:
KB3135983, KB3135988, KB3136000, KB3138910, KB3138962, KB3139398, KB3139852, KB3139914, KB3139940, KB3140735, KB3140410
In my XP past, I used to decline every single .NET update ever offered by Windows® Update.
I regularly declined to download and install and reinstall updates to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of megabytes of bloatware that I never needed for any application that I used.
Finally in 2012 I got involved in the MADDEN NFL 08 modding community, and only then did I need to install the .NET bloatware in order to run the community written game modification software.
Hopefully over time I can persuade some of them to switch to a more sane program development environment.
One that doesn't require hundreds and hundreds of megabytes of bloatware to be installed to be able to run a simple one megabyte program.
No matter what, now that .NET 4.6.1 is up to date, I'm going to continue with my tradition, and intend to never install another .NET anything update on my system.
My next planned updates update will be late August to early September.
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