# Anyone else get a crapload of Vista (64) updates today?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241 "2011-04-13T17:07:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241/1 "2011-04-13T17:07:15Z")

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I DLed a small update yesterday (for Windows Defender), but booted up the machine today, and Microsoft kindly notified me that I had SIXTEEN updates ready to go. They include

Cumulative Security update for ActiveX Killbits  
Cumulative Security update for IE8 (I never use IE8 hence I never DL these-can that be a problem?)  
Security update for .NET Framework 3.5  
Then a whopping NINE security updates for Vista 64  
Junk email filter update (I’m not sure how to use this-maybe it runs in the background automatically, explaining how I often never get emails, usually from sites I try to register for)  
Vista 64 update  
Malicious software removal tool

So anyone else getting these? They all say “published yesterday”-so why would MS release them all at once like that? Or am I missing something here? 😕

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241/2 "2011-04-13T17:13:08Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
>
> I DLed a small update yesterday (for Windows Defender), but booted up the machine today, and Microsoft kindly notified me that I had SIXTEEN updates ready to go. They include
> 
> Cumulative Security update for ActiveX Killbits  
> Cumulative Security update for IE8 (I never use IE8 hence I never DL these-can that be a problem?)  
> Security update for .NET Framework 3.5  
> Then a whopping NINE security updates for Vista 64  
> Junk email filter update (I’m not sure how to use this-maybe it runs in the background automatically, explaining how I often never get emails, usually from sites I try to register for)  
> Vista 64 update  
> Malicious software removal tool
> 
> So anyone else getting these? They all say “published yesterday”-so why would MS release them all at once like that? Or am I missing something here? 😕

Still on windows XP here. About the same. Need to remember to update the home computers too.

I think that there’s some internal schedule at microsoft about the second Tuesday of the month, or something like that.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241/3 "2011-04-13T17:14:52Z")

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Microsoft traditionally releases updates on the [second Tuesday of every month](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday) and yesterday, they released more patches than in any previous date.

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241/4 "2011-04-13T17:19:46Z")

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This has been all over the tech news. 64 bugs in 64 bits. And in XP too.

[http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080\_3-20053212-245.html](http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20053212-245.html)

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**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-get-a-crapload-of-vista-64-updates-today/578241/5 "2011-04-13T18:56:07Z")

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Windows 7 (64-bit version) user reporting in.

My PC had 25 critical updates to perform this morning. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many.