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For information on activation, please see this blog post. For information on the prerequisites, see the "How to get this update" section of this article. You must install the updates listed below and restart your device before installing the latest Rollup.

Installing these updates improves the reliability of the update process and mitigates potential issues while installing the Rollup and applying Microsoft security fixes.

This update is required to install updates that are only SHA-2 signed. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for cumulative update Table of contents. Release Date:. Security-only update. This notification will only appear on the following editions of Windows 7 Service Pack 1: Note The notification will not appear on domain-joined machines or machines in kiosk mode.

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No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. To access it, right-click a blank space on the Windows taskbar and open the News and interests menu. In addition, it makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates.

It also includes a wide variety of small bug fixes, including one that displayed items on the desktop after they have been deleted from the desktop, and another that caused configuration problems with devices that were configured using mobile device management MDM RestrictedGroups , LocalUsersAndGroups , or UserRights policies. This is a relatively minor update, but it does have a few new features. This update gives you quick access to an integrated feed of dynamic content, such as news, weather, sports, and more, that updates throughout the day, via the Windows taskbar.

You can personalize the feed to match your interests. In addition, devices with Windows installations created from custom offline media or custom ISO images might have the legacy version of Microsoft Edge removed by the update, but not automatically replaced by the new Microsoft Edge.

For details, see Microsoft's Security Update Guide website. There are several other security issues addressed, including fixing a potential elevation of privilege vulnerability in the way Azure Active Directory web sign-in allows arbitrary browsing from the third-party endpoints used for federated authentication.

In this build, Microsoft also removed the Microsoft Edge legacy browser and replaced it with the new Chromium-based Edge. This update fixes a variety of minor bugs, including one that made high dynamic range HDR screens appear much darker than expected, and another that caused video playback to be out of sync in duplicate mode with multiple monitors. There are several known issues in this build, including one in which System and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10 version or later to a later version of Windows There is one known issue in this update, in which system and user certificates may be lost when updating a device from Windows 10 version or later to a later version of Windows This out-of-band update fixes a single bug, which caused a blue screen when you attempted to print to certain printers using some apps.

For details, see the Microsoft Security Update Guide. There are three known issues in this update, including one in which system and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10 version This update fixes a variety of minor bugs, including one that caused video playback to flicker when rendering on certain low-latency capable monitors, and another that sometimes prevented the input of strings into the Input Method Editor IME.

This update fixes a bug and includes a variety of security updates. This build fixes a variety of security vulnerabilities, including one with HTTPS-based intranet servers, and a security bypass vulnerability in the way the Printer Remote Procedure Call RPC binding handles authentication for the remote Winspool interface.

For details see the Microsoft Security Update Guide. There are two known issues in this update, including one in which system and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10, version This build fixes a wide variety of bugs, including one that caused Narrator to stop responding after you unlock a device if the app was in use before you locked the device, and another that made makes the touch keyboard unstable in the Mail app.

There are two known issues in this update, one in which system and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10 version or later to a later version of Windows 10, and another in which users of the Microsoft Input Method Editor IME for Japanese or Chinese languages might experience issues when attempting various tasks. This minor build fixes issues with Kerberos authentication related to the PerformTicketSignature registry subkey value in CVE, which was a part of the November 10, Windows update.

There are two known issues in this update, one in which system and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10, version or later to a later version of Windows 10, and another in which users of the Microsoft Input Method Editor IME for Japanese or Chinese languages might experience issues when attempting various tasks. For details see the release notes for November Security Updates. There are two known issues in this update, including one in which system and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10 version or later to a later version of Windows 10, and another in which users of the Microsoft Input Method Editor IME for Japanese or Chinese languages might experience issues when attempting various tasks.

This update makes it easier to connect to others in Skype, using Meet Now from the taskbar. In addition, there are a wide variety of bug fixes, including for one that displayed the incorrect CPU frequency for certain processors, another that displayed nothing on the screen for five minutes or more during a Remote Desktop Protocol RDP session, and another that caused the Docker pull operation to fail due to a Code Integrity CI Policy that blocks the import of a Windows container image.

This is a relatively minor update but does have a few new features. What IT needs to know: Windows 10 version 20H2 also has a variety of small changes of note for sysadmins and those in IT.

This build fixes a few minor bugs and includes a variety of security updates. Among the bugs fixed are an issue with creating null ports using the user interface, and another issue with a possible elevation of privilege in win32k.

This build reduces distortions and aberrations in Windows Mixed Reality head-mounted displays and fixes a wide variety of bugs, including one that caused random line breaks when you redirect PowerShell console error output, and another that that prevented the Language Bar from appearing when a user signs in to a new session.

The build also fixes a security vulnerability issue with user proxies and HTTP-based intranet servers, and addresses an issue with a possible elevation of privileges in windowmanagement. This build fixes a laundry list of minor bugs, including one that prevented apps from downloading an update or opening in certain scenarios, another that prevented users from reducing the size of windows and another that caused File Explorer to stop working when you browsed directories of RAW images and other file types.

The build also fixes an issue in Universal Windows Platform UWP apps that allows single sign-on authentication when an app does not have the Enterprise Authentication capability. What IT needs to know : Because this is a security update, it should be applied relatively soon. There is one known issue in this build: When using some apps, such as Microsoft Excel, users of the Microsoft Input Method Editor IME for Chinese and Japanese might receive an error, or the app might stop responding or close when attempting to drag using the mouse.