For those of you wondering how you will get the nag for Windows 7 EOL, Microsoft has released KB4493132 on March 19, 2019. @Cybertooth asks Windows Up
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AskWoody_MVPI got this night a user feedback, asking, what this update was for. The the user mentioned, that he had several install failures. He then hided this update in Win 7.
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anonymous
Guest“Hiding this patch is suggested for those of you who don’t want multiple reminders during the next year.”
What’s the betting that, just like the Silverlight install, this update will transmogrify itself into another, now-unhidden, update at frequent intervals?
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AskWoody PlusSame here, I don’t find it in with the Important Updates, but I do find it in with the Optional Updates which I rarely if ever download & install. If at some point it shows up in my Important Updates, I’ll just uncheck it or hide it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake as soon as you make it again.
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AskWoody PlusA Windows 7 user in the MS Answers forum for Spain reports Windows running extremely slowly, and being unable to install any updates or programs, after installing KB4493132. A clean boot didn’t help, and the only restore point that shows is the one created the latest time he/she tried (unsuccessfully) to update Windows.
Two other viewers have the same question.
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AskWoody PlusMaybe so. As I write this, the number of people saying “I have the same question” in the Answers forum for Spain is now up to 7.
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AskWoody PlusThis is why W10 is having problems. They have everyone concentrating on harassing W7 users and neglecting W10; because they know if millions of W7 users stay with it after end of life they will have to keep updating it.
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AskWoody PlusFWIW, my Windows 7 laptop is also showing this update. Both machines list it as Important but unchecked.
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AskWoody PlusGroup A. Just checked for updates — 11:30pm 3-20 — and I’m not being offered KB4493132 in either the Important or Optional tabs. So I’m also wondering if it might have been pulled.
Or, while I suppose this is unlikely, I was wondering if my machine is being excluded because its Win7 Pro 64-bit was a manufacturer-installed downgrade from Win 8.
cogx
AskWoody LoungerThere’s one night and day difference between this notification update and the prior Windows 10 “upgrade” debacle: Windows 10 is no longer free. Microsoft can certainly make these Windows 7 EOS notifications come up multiple times, if they want them to, but it’s not like before when you had to worry every second of every day on whether or not your PC would automatically switch to running Windows 10 against your will.
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MemberInstalling it would be like playing a slow, drawn-out, endless funeral march.
Most people now using Windows 7 should be able to do various things after (or even before) January of next year, from putting Windows 7 in a VM and installing Linux as the main OS “on bare metal”, to switching to using Macs, to staying unpatched, at least for several months, while figuring out their best next move.
So most people do not need this patch and are better off by hiding it. — or uninstalling it, if it gets, somehow, installed. Only the very forgetful should install it, perhaps?
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AskWoody PlusIf this update is run frequently with the sole aim of persuading users to upgrade, it would be interesting to see the outcome of an action against Microsoft for harassment – which primarily in the case of the US could presumably be dealt with by way of a class action. Depending, of course, on whether the claim that it can be turned off proves to be any more reliable than various other previous statements by Microsoft.
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OscarCP
Member“Class action.” Well Seff, I am not 100% sure, only 99.999% sure that is something that is forbidden expressly in the contract with MS that you explicitly or implicitly agreed to when activating Windows 7 in your PC. In which case “arbitration” with some company-friendly private adjudicator is your only legal way to sort out disagreements and grievances with MS. (Does anyone here know any different?)
This is not unusual in contracts between users and providers, these days, and is also something strongly contested by pro-consumer organizations, but that has been going nowhere fast in these US of A for decades now.
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AskWoody PlusI’m sure you’re right, however what will be particularly interesting in the case of this “reminder” from MS will be not so much the follow-up for those who choose to hide it, I’m sure they’ll continue to be offered it each month, but rather the experience of those who install it but then click on the “Do not notify me again” option. How will they fare, I wonder.
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OscarCP
MemberPlease, Seff: stop rubbing your hands in anticipation!
Also: If what you imagine might happen turns out to be the case, then those installing as Group A will have no choice but to install it every time they install the monthly rollups, unless MS, in a case of unprecedented user-friendliness, keeps the installation of the monthly S&Q rollups and of this patch well-separate from each other
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AskWoody PlusHehe Oscar, I don’t think I’m rubbing my hands in anticipation – but I do think that quite a few Windows 7 enthusiasts will have seen some of these developments this month as offering the beginnings of a glimmer of hope that all is not yet lost. Microsoft are finally acknowledging the reality of the present situation, with both users and developers, so it will be interesting to see how the coming months unfold between now and next year.
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AskWoody PlusSince no one has ever taken MICROSOFT to court over $Trillions of damages due to buggy updates, BSODs, crashed Windows PCs, crashed networks, forced Windows 10 upgrades… no one will take them to court over some Windows 7 nagging.
The only time Microsoft lost in court in recent years was when customers demanded refund of Windows OS license after not agreeing to Windows EULA or formatting Windows OS on new PCs. Customers got $50 as refund.-
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AskWoody LoungerHello. The first sentence in EULA for Win10 is: (I see it practically every day)
IF YOU LIVE IN (OR IF YOUR PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IS IN) THE UNITED STATES, PLEASE READ THE BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN SECTION 10. IT AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED.
Basically by installing Windows, you agreed, that you must go to court alone, if you live in USofA 🙂
Sure.. the best way for protecting money, is to silence all with some problem caused by your SW. Right, Micro$oft? 🙂 Also, What are ads doing in operating system?? If someone in Linux did this, he’d be fired.. Out of the cannon.. into the sun.
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beating the dead horse,
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/kb4493132-update-notifies-windows-7-users-of-end-of-support-date/pretty much a complete description of the inner springs. not to be found in the catalog, yet
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AskWoody PlusInteresting that the article states:
“The Notify1 task will execute the command %windir%\system32\sipnotify.exe -LogonOrUnlock when a user logs in or the computer is unlocked.
The Notify2 task will execute the command %windir%\system32\sipnotify.exe -Daily as 12:00 PM every day.”So it sounds like you might get a few notifications in 1 day if you login, then you later unlock the computer and then again at 12:00 PM.
This should be enough to drive anyone mad!Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie
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hi samak,
if you see # 344084 by Speccy in “Windows 10 Nag…” he opened the .CAB file (where did that come from? i could not get it in the catalog) and saw the scheduled roll outs. i guess if a person gets bit by this EOL reminder bug, then fixing it in the registry would be the best remedy? i hope “they,” don’t plant it in the monthly rollups or SO’s…
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AskWoody PlusThe psychology of this puzzles me, but I’m not prone to subtlety…who, running Win 7 right now does NOT know about the January 2020? People under a rock or working in remote areas of the world? Tuva, Outer Mongolia, Jungles of Sumatra, Tierra Del Fuego, etc.
Seriously, thanks to all the crew who help us keep abreast of this hocus-pocus!
Oh, BTW, oddly enough, just checked WU and there’s no KB4493132 showing up anywhere!
Weird.
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GuestIt might be surprising to see how many people don’t or wouldn’t know – they either take all updates or don’t update at all – they use their computer for what they want to do and don’t worry about all this stuff the way we might. It can be fun to engage in MS bashing, but it does start to pale after a while, we use their systems as we want, and look into alternatives. They did wreck it with Win 10 for a lot of people, not least of whom the majority of people on the planet who don’t have luxury internet connections – the time has come to change, use Windows offline, do whatever and adapt – hope this doesn’t come out as some kind of attack on you – don’t mean it that way – most people will just keep clicking on the nag and not worry about it – could be argued that they have a duty of care to put this nag on computers?
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AskWoody_MVPI continue to keep GWX Control Panel on my computer. KB4493132 has not appeared in the update queue.
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GuestI wonder if MS has built any intelligence into the notifications. Will the notification be different on old 32-bit hardware that can’t be updated to Win 10 (CPU instruction set – PAE, SSE2, NX)?
While this is a non-issue for probably everyone here, a lot of XP era machines were upgraded to Win 7 32-bit (e.g. early P4). World-wide, I’d venture a guess that the number of these computers still in use is not statistically insignificant, especially in developing nations.
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AskWoody Loungerreporting in regarding KB4493132 appearing when I manually did a windows update search.
KB4493132 did appear as important but unchecked. I hid it.
However, what I did notice in my hidden updates…
Comparing the snip it shot I took earlier this month (march 8th the first attachment)
to what it shows today when I hid the kb4493132….(2nd attachment)
KB2952664 was not there anymore (in my hidden updates) where it has been there.
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AskWoody LoungerThe KB2952664 functionality was rolled into the Monthly Rollups in October last. Perhaps they changed the metadata to show it superceded by one of the later Rollups, since it is no longer needed as a separate update.
PKCano It does not show up in my installed updates either!?
It has always been in my hidden updates.
The only updates I’ve been doing since March 8 (which I did the Feb. rollup then and took the snip it after that which it shows up)
are Microsoft Security Essentials Definitions and I don’t do that through Windows Update.
hmmmm….???maybe when I hid KB4493132 it removed kb2952664
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ManagerIt doesn’t show up in the installed updates because it is no longer a stand-alone update, but an integral part of the Rollups. So you will see the Rollup installed but not KB2952664. The latter is no longer needed since the functionality is built into the Rollups.
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AskWoody_MVPMicrosoft has updated KB support article 4493132 on Thursday April 4 with this notice for those using Pro, Enterprise and Server editions of Windows 7 (or Server 2008 R2)
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Note for organizations
This update is not applicable for devices in managed organizations. More specifically, this update will not install on devices running Professional and Enterprise editions of Windows 7 as well as Windows Server products. We recognize that organizations typically have an IT Pro managing system configuration and Windows 10 deployments. It is important for organizations to shift to Windows 10 ahead of January 2020 – organizations can go here to learn more.
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AskWoody LoungerHas anyone gone into the Registry files to see where those entries are located? Found maybe seven (7) entries for Sipnotify plus maybe four (4) entries where the EXE files are located.
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AskWoody LoungerHas anyone gone into the Registry files to see where those entries are located? Found maybe seven (7) entries for Sipnotify plus maybe four (4) entries where the EXE files are located.
WSNTLS ‘d’ “LoneWanderer”
This is what was found within the REGISTRY files:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Windows\System32\sipnotify.exe
Type Data
REG_SZ SipnotifyHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Windows\System32\sipnotify.exe
Type Data
REG_SZ SipnotifyHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SipNotify\LastShown
Type Data Base
REG_QWORD 1d5269ee20256b0 (Hexadecimal)HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4267585356-2186095281-715594798-1000\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Windows\System32\sipnotify.exe
Type Data
REG_SZ SipnotifyHKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4267585356-2186095281-715594798-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SipNotify\\LastShown
Type Data Base
REG_QWORD 1d5269ee20256b0 (Hexadecimal)HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4267585356-2186095281-715594798-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Windows\System32\sipnotify.exe
Type Data
REG_SZ SipnotifyWork in the Registry all of the time . . .
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