#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK INSTALL#
#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK UPDATE#
#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK PATCH#

#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK UPDATE#

Although offered two downloads for the Windows 7 ењ†4 and Windows 2008 R2, those update are the same. We can see all updates that are available here.ДЄs you can see, we can download three updates.

#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK INSTALL#

It will take a few seconds to install this control and then we can enter the Microsoft Catalog web site. Therefore, you need to right-click on the blue ribbon and choose the option Install This Add-on for All Users on This ComputerвЂ¦ The Microsoft Catalog web page requests installation of the ActiveX component on your computer. ItвЂ™s very convenient that you can access the Microsoft Catalog web page even if you have just IE8 on the computer. You should visit the Microsoft Catalog web page to download this update. As you can see, we didnвЂ™t apply any other update except the Servicing stack update. We just prepared our computer for the installation of the вЂњService pack 2вЂќ. We can proceed immediately onto the second step. When the update finishes we do not need to restart the computer. Be patient with the installation process. The installation process itself will take a couple of minutes. It will check the environment and prompt us to install this update. We can run this file manually from either the local hard disk or from the USB pen drive. This is a regular update in a single msu file. The 64-bit version is same for both the Windows 7 ењ†4 SP1 and the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. In case you are trying to download it from a computer with IE8, here are the links for direct download for the 32-bit and 64-bit computer. We need to download the prerequisite update KB3020369. Moreover, it is highly recommended that you turn off the automatic updates, as I described in this post. You need to install one update before it and this can be done on the clean, freshly installed, Windows 7 SP1 or Server 2008 R2 SP1 computer.Д«ear in mind that you must have the Service Pack 1 installed on the computer before installation of this вЂњSP2вЂќ update. You can download it from the Microsoft Catalog website.

This update is not available through the Windows Update channel. However, it contains more than 170 updates that will be installed in a single process. As this update consists only of security updates and omitting all other updates, including IE11, it is not a real Service Pack 2. Microsoft named this update the Convenience Update. This update can be installed on a newly installed computer and update it with all major updates in a fraction of the time requested for regular update.

#WHAT IS SERVICE PACK PATCH#

In the April 2016 Microsoft eventually publish the super patch that contains all security updates published after Service Pack 1.

Users around the world were waiting for years for the Service Pack 2. Let me introduce the unofficial Service Pack 2 (SP2). I will speak about the first method in another post. We can either slipstream (integrate) all updates into the installation or we can install the Convenience Update. It will be good if we can also significantly shorten the installation time. However, we will shorten the whole process down to the time need to download all those updates. We can speed up the whole process with an offline updating solutions. In most instances we need even two hours to completely update the computer. Installing those updates on a freshly installed computer will take more than an hour. After more than five years Microsoft published over 230 important updates.

The last Service packs for the Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2 were published in 2011.

What is service pack