Windows 7/8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2 receive April Patch Tuesday

April Patch Tuesday

In this month’s Patch Tuesday event, while a cumulative update was released for multiple supported versions of Windows 10, Microsoft also released a monthly update rollup for systems such as Windows 7/8.1.

April Patch Tuesday

Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 have been updated to KB4093118, and users can manually download it here. This update contains the following fixes:

  • Windows Update and WSUS will offer this update to applicable Windows client and server operating systems regardless of the existence or value of the “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat\cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc” registry setting. This change has been made to protect user data.
  • Improves reliability in the kernel, and addresses an issue that can cause applications to have unexpected memory contents on multiprocessor systems.
  • Addresses an issue with printing content generated by ActiveX in Internet Explorer.
  • Addresses an access violation on certain pages in Internet Explorer when it renders SVGs under high load.
  • Addresses an issue that, in some instances, prevents Internet Explorer from identifying custom controls.
  • Addresses a stop error that occurred when the previous month’s update was applied to a 32-bit (x86) computer with a Physical Address Extension (PAE) mode disabled.
  • Security updates to Internet Explorer, Microsoft scripting engine, Microsoft graphics component, Windows Server, Windows datacenter networking, Windows virtualization and kernel, and Windows app platform and frameworks.

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 have been updated with KB4093114. Users can manually download it here. This update contains the following fixes:

  • Windows Update and WSUS will offer this update to applicable Windows client and server operating systems regardless of the existence or value of the “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat\cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc” registry setting. This change has been made to protect user data.
  • Addresses an issue with printing content generated by ActiveX in Internet Explorer.
  • Addresses an access violation on certain pages in Internet Explorer when it’s rendering SVGs under high load.
  • Addresses an issue that, in some instances, prevents Internet Explorer from identifying custom controls.
  • Security updates to Internet Explorer, Microsoft scripting engine, Microsoft graphics component, Windows Server, Windows kernel, Windows datacenter networking, Windows Hyper-V, Windows virtualization and kernel, and Windows app platform and frameworks.

Finally, Windows Server 2012 also received KB4093123 monthly update rollup, users can manually download through here, this update contains the following fix:

  • Windows Update and WSUS will offer this update to applicable Windows client and server operating systems regardless of the existence or value of the “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat\cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc” registry setting. This change has been made to protect user data.
  • Addresses an issue that, in some instances, prevents Internet Explorer from identifying custom controls.
  • Security updates to Microsoft scripting engine, Internet Explorer, Microsoft graphics component, Windows Server, Windows kernel, Windows datacenter networking, and Windows app platform and frameworks.