September Windows Updates

I want to read some information about a Windows 7 or Office 2007 update
before I install it. The September batch of updates (released
yesterday) addresses nine knowledge base (KB) items, some of which
encompass additional KB items.

When I try the "More information" links for two of the KB items --
KB4040977 and KB3213641 -- the Web pages fail to download completely. I
get Web pages for both; but they each show circling dots, which
indicates the page's download is not yet complete. Many minutes later,
there is no change.

Does anyone know what these two KB items are about? Does anyone know
how I can view the KB articles for these two? I tried working with
Microsoft's tech support. However, I think the tech person was working
from a script. He kept sending me to Web pages that either downloaded
the updates (for which I am not yet ready) or to pages that advertise
Surface Pro.

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David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

Yes, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other
"founding fathers" owned slaves. However, they created
a nation. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson and other "heroes" of the
Confederacy tried to tear the nation apart. Statues
and other monuments to those "heroes" of the
Confederacy actually celebrate traitors and treason.

See my http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_conf_flag.html.

David E. Ross wrote:
I want to read some information about a Windows 7 or Office 2007 update
before I install it. The September batch of updates (released
yesterday) addresses nine knowledge base (KB) items, some of which
encompass additional KB items.

When I try the "More information" links for two of the KB items --
KB4040977 and KB3213641 -- the Web pages fail to download completely. I
get Web pages for both; but they each show circling dots, which
indicates the page's download is not yet complete. Many minutes later,
there is no change.

Does anyone know what these two KB items are about? Does anyone know
how I can view the KB articles for these two? I tried working with
Microsoft's tech support. However, I think the tech person was working
from a script. He kept sending me to Web pages that either downloaded
the updates (for which I am not yet ready) or to pages that advertise
Surface Pro.

Have you tried Google?
There is a lot of info on both KB's.

On 13/09/2017 22:47, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Have you tried Google?
There is a lot of info on both KB's.


He hasn't got Google on his machine and that is why he asked another
idiot like you here.


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David E. Ross wrote:
I want to read some information about a Windows 7 or Office 2007 update
before I install it. The September batch of updates (released
yesterday) addresses nine knowledge base (KB) items, some of which
encompass additional KB items.

When I try the "More information" links for two of the KB items --
KB4040977 and KB3213641 -- the Web pages fail to download completely. I
get Web pages for both; but they each show circling dots, which
indicates the page's download is not yet complete. Many minutes later,
there is no change.

Does anyone know what these two KB items are about? Does anyone know
how I can view the KB articles for these two? I tried working with
Microsoft's tech support. However, I think the tech person was working
from a script. He kept sending me to Web pages that either downloaded
the updates (for which I am not yet ready) or to pages that advertise
Surface Pro.


Description of the Security and Quality Rollup for the .NET Framework 4.5.2
for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 SP2:
September 12, 2017

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...et-framework-4

Description of the security update for 2007 Microsoft Office Suite:
September 12, 2017

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...eseptember12-2

Each has a widget in the lower right corner called "Try the Virtual Agent".
That probably involves JavaScript and calls to a server that serves
up the Virtual Agent script. Maybe the spinning balls is related
to that feature of each web page.

You can try taking the root of that URL and gluing the KB
number onto the end of it. For the first one, I entered

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4040977

for example, and that one expanded the title on its own via
a redirect.

If you have Javascript disabled, I would have guessed there'd
be no spinning symbol at all, so it's a puzzle why it would
not load to completion.

Older browsers without proper https support, won't even get
that far. Many Microsoft pages now, like the Social web site,
don't load unless you use a more capable browser.

Paul

On 9/13/2017 2:47 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
I want to read some information about a Windows 7 or Office 2007 update
before I install it. The September batch of updates (released
yesterday) addresses nine knowledge base (KB) items, some of which
encompass additional KB items.

When I try the "More information" links for two of the KB items --
KB4040977 and KB3213641 -- the Web pages fail to download completely. I
get Web pages for both; but they each show circling dots, which
indicates the page's download is not yet complete. Many minutes later,
there is no change.

Does anyone know what these two KB items are about? Does anyone know
how I can view the KB articles for these two? I tried working with
Microsoft's tech support. However, I think the tech person was working
from a script. He kept sending me to Web pages that either downloaded
the updates (for which I am not yet ready) or to pages that advertise
Surface Pro.

Have you tried Google?
There is a lot of info on both KB's.


Thank you. I had tried DuckDuckGo, but I saw too much irrelevant hits
(mostly for downloading, not for details). Google got me what I wanted.

--
David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

Yes, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other
"founding fathers" owned slaves. However, they created
a nation. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson and other "heroes" of the
Confederacy tried to tear the nation apart. Statues
and other monuments to those "heroes" of the
Confederacy actually celebrate traitors and treason.

See my http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_conf_flag.html.