Welcome to the February 2020 overview of the Microsoft February 2020 Patch Day. It is a special Patch Day, as it is the first after support for Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system ended officially for Home users (organizations and Enterprise customers may extend support by up to three years).
Microsoft continues to release Windows 7 updates but these are only supported on ESU machines.
Our overview provides you with extensive Patch Day information including an overview of security and non-security updates, direct download links, known issues, and links to resources.
Feel free to check out the January 2020 Patch Day overview here.
Download the following (zipped) Excel spreadsheet that includes a list of released security updates by Microsoft in February 2002: microsoft-windows-february-2020-security-updates-list
Windows Server products
Other Microsoft Products
Windows 7
Improvements and fixes:
Windows 8.1
Improvements and fixes:
Windows 10 version 1803
Support article: KB4537762
Improvements and fixes:
Windows 10 version 1809
Support article: KB4537762
Improvements and fixes:
Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909
Support article: KB4532693
Improvements and fixes:
Other security updates
Windows 7
Error message "“Failure to configure Windows updates. Reverting Changes. Do not turn off your computer" may be displayed after the installation of the update.
Microsoft notes that this may happen when a) the update is installed on a device that is not supported for ESU or b) if an ESU MAK add-on key is not installed and activated.
Windows 10 version 1803
Windows 10 version 1809
You find Office update information here.
The security updates that Microsoft released on February 11, 2020 are made available via Windows Update, WSUS, and other updating tools and services. The updates may also be downloaded manually and installed just like any other application on Windows machines (check the section below for direct download links).
Note: Since Windows updates may introduce bugs or issues, it is highly recommended to create backups of important data -- better the entire system -- before running any updates.
To check for updates manually, do the following:
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 (version 1803)
Windows 10 (version 1809)
Windows 10 (version 1903)
Windows 10 (version 1909)
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I am curious, where do you get this information? Because at the time of writing this website is still not updated:
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance
The site is still empty. Where are the details about Windows Update from Microsoft?
Martin: Where from do you collect this info? Has Microsoft changed the URL?
OK, I found out :-)
Neat. Updated LTSC, now cleaning the image. . .
it is a looong processs o___O
They still haven’t fixed the biggest bug – telemetry enabled and on full by default.
Hello all,
LMAO ! If microshit ever made a product that didn’t suck, it would probably be a vacuum cleaner !
Peter Newton [London Uk]
The Security only update for Windows 8.1 is KB4537803.
Thanks, corrected.
No .NET Framework updates for Windows 7? Weird.
I got KB4524244 on my Win 10 Pro 1909 and my 3 Win 10 Home 1909 machines. According to link it should ONLY be for Win 10 versions 1903 and below.
On all my machines it was offered after manually checking for updates, after the other 3 Feb updates had been successfully installed and the machines had been restarted.
Should this be uninstalled?
As is usual, Windows Update knew enough to install SSU KB4538674 to get me updated to Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.657]. Only way I knew that was to later run Belarc Advisor on my home laptop, and then see
https://www.tenforums.com/windows-10-news/150353-kb4538674-servicing-stack-update-windows-10-v1903-v1909-feb-11-a.html .
Acer Aspire V5 571G, Windows 10 1909 x64 installed 4 days ago on a spanking new Intel SSD. All drivers updated. No programs installed. All good until yesterday, cumulative update KB4532693 fails repeatedly with error 0x80070003. Tried EVERY solution found online, then restarted and tried again. This has now failed 9 times in a row, there will not be a 10th time because this thing goes back in the closet to wait for Kubuntu 20.04. ..I had this crazy thought that my mom would probably use this laptop more with Windows on it, I should have known better..I think she’ll actually live longer and healthier with anything else than Windows on it. Windows 10 is for masochists. It never ceases to amaze me, year after year after year, what a miserable piece of a rotten turd Windows 10 is. Since there’s a little sadistical masochist bizarro-perv in me, I will give this a go again in a year or two I’m sure.. just to get hammered good again, and come here to bitch about it.
@Bobo,
Corrupt system file somewhere usually causes that error.
Run: DISM.exe/Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth from an elevated command prompt and then try installing again.
Also, do you have all the Servicing Stack updates installed?
Trust me, everything is done and every update and driver is in place. The culprit is the cumulative f**kupdate, as is tradition by now. I don’t care anymore, won’t waste another second in Windows 10 nightmare-world with that computer. A 2012 model, not THAT old IMO, 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM, AC-WIFI, BLUETOOTH, the works.. all good, except it comes with a freshly installed, broken unusable SUPERPOTATO-OS =) Sweet Lord baby Jesus how EXCREMENTY Windows 10 is, cumulative defecation every month free for aaaaaall.
After this update ccleaner 5.35 does Not work anymore on Windows 10 1903
If it’s the portable version, you can rename the .exe files to something like cc.exe and cc64.exe and run it.
You can also disable Program Compatibility Assistant through Services and GPEdit: https://i.imgur.com/UdhFjSQ.png
Too lazy to type the whole path so here’s a screenshot. I always disable PCA ever since Vista, it’s useless and annoying.
Direct download link to IE11 in case anyone needs it: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4537767
Thanks.
Nice to see that IE on Windows 7 is still getting updates.
KB4532693 disabling my wifi repeatedly so i unistall it. Anyone who can help report this to microsoft? I disable my window update because of it
Installed here for W10 1909 and it seems everything fine. Thanks @Martin. :D
kb4537759 adobe flash player update is not available for W10 v1809 on microsoft\windows update catalogue. What the hell???
I wish they’d send an update to remove it alltogether from Win8+
System integration of that crap never made any sense to me.
For me, their feature updates install smoothly and quickly, but their cumulative updates and the menagerie of all the huge ‘cumulative’ updates and stupid little definition updates et al, should be called Chaos Tuesday. Took 2 days of rigamarole to finally get their little butts into Windows and everything calm again.
Ah for the days on Vista when I disabled Updates for a year and a half…and really didn’t see much of an effect from it…at least nothing that I couldn’t fix myself (and I’m no techie).
KB4532692 shows as a “critical” dynamic update on MS Update Catalog, yet it’s listed here as a “non-security related update” and the link for it say “Compatiblity Update…”. Another MS update snafu, guess I’ll just ignore this one, wouldn’t install anyway and there’s no doc on it for install.
I used WU to correctly update on 2/11 to Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.657]. On 2/14 I used WU again, which installed KB4524244 without a restart, so I did one and see no problems for me. Documentation I know of did not tell me KB4524244 should have been installed.
https://wind10update.info/security-update-kb4524244-for-windows-10-fix-vulnerabilities-in-uefi/ says KB4524244 is applicable to Windows 10 1909.
the KB4524244 update has just been yanked by Microsoft:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-windows-10-kb4524244-issues-and-pulls-the-update/
https://borncity.com/win/2020/02/15/windows-10-update-kb4524244-pulled/
make a note of that, Martin
I’m still on Windows 7 and the updates downloaded automatically onto my PC. I’m not on extended support so, having read scare stories, I haven’t done a shut down which will cause an automatic install of these updates. Has anyone else had this?