Old System Update Readiness Tools appearing

[ehmen]

Hi everyone,

Update KB947821 (released October 2014) just appeared now on my Vista computer as ready to update.
Does anyone know why it took almost a year to show up? Is there some problem with this update/tool as there are with others?
Would anyone else also be a bit hesitant to install an update that appears 10 months after being released?

Thank you to whomever can shed light on this issue.

[Charyb-0]

Please read this.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=20858

[ehmen]

Please read this.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=20858

It doesn't say why the update/tool waited for ten months before appearing in my "Windows updates".

[mchain]

Link for Vista:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=504

This an automatic repair tool issued by Microsoft.

See attached below:

As to why it just now appeared impossible to say unless corruption of some sort was detected in WS Store.

[essexboy]

SURT may have been updated to check for windows 10 compatibility ...  Just my two pennorth

[ehmen]

So is there any reason that I should hesitate to install this very delayed update/tool?

[mchain]

No.

If you've got a back up plan in place, then you'll be able to recover from any issues with your system in minutes rather than hours or days. 

Back up plan = routine disk imaging.

[ehmen]

Back up plan = routine disk imaging.

In this case I assume a system restore to an earlier restore point would do the trick as well.

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Now the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista (KB947821) that was released in May 2014 appeared in my Windows Updates as well. Next thing I know, they'll be giving me readiness tools from 2013 and who knows from what other year .

[Charyb-0]

Back up plan = routine disk imaging.

In this case I assume a system restore to an earlier restore point would do the trick as well.

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Now the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista (KB947821) that was released in May 2014 appeared in my Windows Updates as well. Next thing I know, they'll be giving me readiness tools from 2013 and who knows from what other year .

I wouldn't rely on system restore. In fact, I have it turned off. I rely on several images, file backups, and syncs.

[bob3160]

Back up plan = routine disk imaging.

In this case I assume a system restore to an earlier restore point would do the trick as well.

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Now the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista (KB947821) that was released in May 2014 appeared in my Windows Updates as well. Next thing I know, they'll be giving me readiness tools from 2013 and who knows from what other year .

Once you upgrade, there is no restore point to go back too.
You need an image backup if you want to restore your system after you've upgraded to Windows 10.

[ehmen]

You need an image backup if you want to restore your system after you've upgraded to Windows 10.

I won't be doing that.
This computer doesn't deserve and probably can't handle an upgrade.

Is it even possible to upgrade from Vista to W10?

[polonus]

If the little windows icon appears for you and you click it it should state whether your computer is compatible.
I have the all green but will wait until Windows10 growth pains "have eased out", if you know what I mean.

polonus

[ehmen]

If the little windows icon appears for you and you click it it should state whether your computer is compatible.

Not sure what you mean.

[DavidR]

If the little windows icon appears for you and you click it it should state whether your computer is compatible.

Not sure what you mean.

It runs a compatibility check - if it passes that in theory - you would be good to go.

If it is possible for Vista to update to win10 (and I'm not sure it can) then you would probably have to pay, as the free upgrade to win10 is for qualifying versions of win7 and win8.1.

It would appear to be a possibility that it will update to win10 from Vista, why otherwise would they have a specific Viste

[ehmen]

I don't know which little windows icon you're talking about.