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If yes, install the antivirus program update BEFORE installing KB 4056897. Check with your antivirus vendor to see if their latest or upcoming program update supports KB 4056897 & would thus set the required registry key. In contrast, numerous 3rd-party antivirus are currently not compatible with KB 4056897. If your installed antivirus is MS Windows Defender or MS Security Essentials with their latest updates, they are compatible with KB 4056897.

A certain registry key needs to exist, or else the installed KB patch will cause your PC to go into a bluescreen loop upon the next boot, such that your PC won’t be able to boot into the Windows environment. IMPORTANT: You first need to check that your installed antivirus program (if any) is compatible with the KB 4056897 patch. That being said, you might wish to wait a while before installing the patch, & check if other users have experienced problems with the patch. Since your OS is Win 7 圆4, you only need to install the 圆4 version (66.9 MB) of KB 4056897 (Meltdown kernel bug patch for Win OS). Microsoft’s KB labelling system is such that all patches addressing the SAME issue wrt Win 7 x32/64 & Win Server 2008 R2 have the same KB label.

Windows 10 version 1507: beatbox: “As I use windows 7, 64 bit do I download both of the updates because they both have the same KB number ?”.

The following links point to the Microsoft Update Catalog website where updates can be downloaded manually:

Click download or wait for the download to complete automatically.įollow the links below to the KnowledgeBase articles.

Click on "check for updates" to run a manual check for updates if the check does not happen automatically.

Tap on the Windows-key, type Windows Update and select the item from the list of results to open the Update & Security section of the Settings application.

Windows 10 users and admins can use Windows Updates to install the out-of-band security updates to affected machines running Windows 10. Internet Explorer 11 patches are available on the Microsoft Update Catalog website as well.