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cannot download w.7. updates

Feb 23, 2016 1:20PM PST

Using Lenovo laptop G585. W 7 Home Premium. Firefox 44.0.2

Hello Everyone,

I have been trying to download updates for a few days.
each time I get the W 10 to download. I don't wish to do this at this time.

I want to download the udates for W7 and the other updates for Office etc.

I found the updates and chose the "important" ones.

When I went to download them I had no choice because they were actually included with the W.10 download.

Does anyone know how I can obtain ONLY the updates without having to download W 10?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Regards

Colinito,

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Did you try the manual methods?
Feb 23, 2016 1:37PM PST

Find the KB NUMBER and then google that. Many of these have a download .exe or .msi you can apply without windows update. Not that advanced but a way around it.

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cannot download w.7. updates / Did you try...
Feb 23, 2016 2:02PM PST

Hello Bob,
Thank you for that information. I had not even thought of it! I shall re-try the search and copy & paste them onto a word doc and try googling them. Might take a while!!

Kind regards,
Colin

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I usually don't install all updates.
Feb 23, 2016 2:31PM PST

Let's say I find that an update is for a font in Excel. I can ignore that for some time.

Another time it was updates for Office 2013 which I had only as the demo version. My fix was to uninstall 2013 entirely so updates would not be sought out.