If you go to the Support Lifecycle home page and search for a product family, you get new results for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that include Extended Support end dates for consumer versions of both products. This month, with almost no fanfare, Microsoft has revised its support policy for consumer versions of Windows so that they qualify for extended support as well. Under those guidelines, mainstream support for Windows Vista is set to end in less than two months, on April 10, 2012. That was true when I first wrote about this issue in 2008, and it was equally true in 2009 when I published an updated post covering Windows 7. Consumer versions get five years of mainstream support, and business versions get an additional five years of extended support. Microsoft’s support lifecycle for Windows is clearly spelled out. Not in normal Windows mode, then there is 3rd party software that is causing the update installation issue.Feb-20, 8:30AM PST: Updated with Microsoft confirmation of policy change. If the system could install the updates in the Clean boot configuration but

If the system still can not install the updates, please copy and paste the contents of one of the logs that CheckSUR created when it ran. Whether the system can or cannot now, undo the Clean boot configuration and restart to normal Windows mode. If the system can search for, detect, download, and install updates now, Restart the system to the same Clean boot configuration and do a check for updates from Windows Update in the Control Panel. Ensure that the native Vista firewall is now On - Turn Windows Firewall on or off

If the installed antivirus is Norton/McAfee or a 3rd party firewall is being used, then suggest you first configure the system to Clean boot prior to running it.Īll 3rd party firewalls will be Disabled.

When it's download completes close all open programs and browsers. X86-based ( 32 bit) versions of Windows Vista That specific return code may be resolved by running the System Update Readiness Tool, akaĭescription of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, for Windows 7, and for Windows Server 2008 R2 One or more required members of the transaction are not present. 8007371B ERROR_SXS_TRANSACTION_CLOSURE_INCOMPLETE

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