I have a report from an Intel Celeron T3000 owner who got clobbered. If Speccy tells you that you have a Celeron processor, your patching future isn’t so clear. If Speccy tells you that you’re running an Intel Skylake processor, you can breathe a little easier.Īlthough Microsoft is still being coy about whether all Skylakes will be supported with Win7 and 8.1 updates, I haven’t yet heard of anyone with a Skylake who’s been shut down. If Speccy tells you that you’re running an Intel Kaby Lake processor, or an AMD Ryzen processor, seriously contemplate whether you want to apply this month’s security patches - or if it’s easier to just jump to Windows 10. It’s a free system scanner that will tell you both the type of CPU that you’re using, and the RAM memory specs (screenshot). That’s not as simple as it sounds because Microsoft hasn’t bothered to provide a hit list of blocked chips, or a program that’ll scan your system and tell you if running the updates will slip your PC a Mickey. If you’re running Windows 7 or 8.1 on a PC made in the past 18 months, check to see if installing this month’s Windows patches will completely block Windows Update. It isn’t at all clear why earlier Carrizo DDR4 machines were included in the dragnet… or even if all older Skylake-based computers are immune. Microsoft has been using patches since April 2017 to shut off Windows Update on computers running Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Ryzen processors. You may have heard there’s a big controversy over Microsoft’s heavy-handed approach to coercing the well-heeled into moving to Windows 10 by completely disabling Windows Update on “7th generation” PCs (screenshot). If you have a newer computer (built in, say, the past 18 months), watch out because you might get slipped a Microsoft Mickey Finn. AKB 2000006: See if Microsoft is blocking Windows Update on your new computer
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