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Well, today Windows Update says I need the following updates to .NET Framework.
KB2468871 9-12-2011
KB2533523 9-12-2011
KB2600217 6-18-2012
KB2604121 5-7-2012
KB2656351 1-10-2012
KB2729449 11-12-2012
KB2737019 11-12-2012
KB2742595 1-7-2013
KB2789642 2-11-2013
KB4099633 5-7-2018

This brings up 3 questions,
1) Why all these updates at once?
2) Were they all superseded?
3) What is .NET Framework and why do I need it?

I’m running Win7 SP1 x64 Group B.
Dave

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the .NET Framework (in all its’ various versions and retirements) are executable program libraries that are use by applications from Microsoft, and other parties, and will be required for those applications to work. It eases the load on different programs all duplicating their own approaches to using the supporting Windows features in a program.

Generally, if a new application program expects to rely on the .NET framework, it will confirm all the features it needs are available, or deliver a suitable version of the product to your computer.

Basically, you have to have what M$ wants to deliver to your Windows system in the way of updates for these products. My workhorse Windows 7 desktop has only .NET 4.71 installed (after many months of frequent changes and updates)…older editions have been superseded. (Although, just now, I’m now being offered .NET 4.72, which will…no doubt…remove all my prior .NET software and updates.)

As for understanding why M$ delivers updates the way they do, and confusing their customers, I can’t offer you any counsel. If you keep updating the .NET modules, it will eventually settle down and be a stable platform for new applications you may choose to download.

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Pepsiboy

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Did you roll your computer back to Dec 2017, including Windows Updates AND .NET updates (all updates before Jan 2018)? If you did, that might be the reason you are seeing the .NET patches from 2011-2018.

The .NET patches are ROLLUPS. That means they contain a bunch of previous patches as well as the current updates. If you uninstalled these in a rollback, then you have uninstalled MORE than just this month’s (or Jan-Apr 2018) updates. So what you see could be all the old patches that were contained in and superseded by the ROLLUPS.

Does this fit your case?

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Pepsiboy, walker

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PKCano,

No rollbacks done here. Undecided as to install these updates or not. So far, no problems. will probably wait until Defcon goes to 3 or higher and MAYBE install them then. Might even hide them and forget about them.

Thanks for the reply.

Dave

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The other possibility suggested by anonymous is that while you have been stringent in your desire to keep Microsoft out of your installation of their Win7 product, just as you now intend to continue, something has triggered a new condition on your machine. The Windows Update is responding to the new condition by suggesting items according to its own interpretation of the change, in reference to established metadata.

The top two reasons for this new condition that come to mind are installing a new third party application that relies on old frameworks, or accessing data files that used old frameworks from within applications already resident and familiar to you. There may be other possibilities as well, but some event local to your system has triggered a new response from Windows Update.

While PKCano followed the line that these additional frameworks may have been removed, anonymous followed the line that you locally have a demand for frameworks you have previously always avoided. Validity can only come from you identifying the new condition.

Shorter version, was there a local action or event that comes to mind since the last interaction with Windows Update that did not give this offer?

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Pepsiboy

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Hey Y’all,

For those of you using PowerShell .NET updates are necessary to get the latest features and updates.

MS Article on latest .NET.

HTH

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Pepsiboy, columbia2011, Microfix, Cascadian

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RetiredGeek wrote:

Hey Y’all, For those of you using PowerShell .NET updates are necessary to get the latest features and updates. MS Article on latest .NET. HTH

RG,

Thanks for the link to get the latest version of .NET Framework.

As I said earlier, I think I’ll wait for Defcon to go up before installing any of these (as well as other updates) unless something else changes what little mind I have left.

Thanks to all for the suggestion and comments.

Dave

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