KB4579311 Cumulative Update Windows 10 v2004 build 19041.572 - Oct. 13 Win Update

storageman said:

After attempting to remove a good USB memory stick three times, Windows went into recovery on the 4th re-boot. I attempted to fix window, that failed, so it also asked if I wanted to remove the last "quality update", I said go for it. Its been running ok since then, but I going to try and update it again using the .MSU. Maybe something got lost during the update. Will keep this posted.

"Well I'll be a monkeys uncle" I reinstalled KB4579311 via .MSU and everything is running normal again. Even WORD 2000 is working correctly. The crashes from "Removing Safely" are gone. Something bad must of happened during the WU update is all I can say.

OldMike65 said:

Interesting, as when I check my Optional updates it shows none.

I have a few aswell. :3 It's basically detecting all outdated device and system drivers from the device manager over to Windows Update. I think it's a good change personally. Some in there may actually be outdated though, which is ironic since it's suppose to offer updates. Maybe you keep all system drivers up to date? That could explain why you don't see drivers in there. But in typical Microsoft fashion, there will always be quirks.

After this update I now have my name and profile in the Settings tab. It just came in today and I think it looks great!

Oh, and I updated laptop with a 5200rpm hard drive. don't know how long it took exactly because I felt asleep , but my estimate is between 1-2 hours. I think the longest part was the installation while the computer is on and not the restart process.

Faith said:

I have a few aswell. :3 It's basically detecting all outdated device and system drivers from the device manager over to Windows Update. I think it's a good change personally. Some in there may actually be outdated though, which is ironic since it's suppose to offer updates. Maybe you keep all system drivers up to date? That could explain why you don't see drivers in there. But in typical Microsoft fashion, there will always be quirks.

After this update I now have my name and profile in the Settings tab. It just came in today and I think it looks great!

Oh, and I updated laptop with a 5200rpm hard drive. don't know how long it took exactly because I felt asleep , but my estimate is between 1-2 hours. I think the longest part was the installation while the computer is on and not the restart process.

My Lenovo is completely up to date as far as drivers go yet it offered me the long list or down level drivers. Totally wrong and definitely not a good thing to do. It should not even show an Optional Updates choice to me unless there is something new. That is what I see on my Laptop, nothing.

Ztruker said:

My Lenovo is completely up to date as far as drivers go yet it offered me the long list or down level drivers. Totally wrong and definitely not a good thing to do. It should not even show an Optional Updates choice to me unless there is something new. That is what I see on my Laptop, nothing.

Rich, I also got a long list like yours and my drivers were also up to date.
Some of them were newer and I did update, but the majority were outdated. One of them was for firmware (didn't touch it and is still there).

The only observation I have is for the last entry in your list, as I also got this one.

Intel - System - 11.7.0.1000, after a couple of days was offered as a regular update, i.e not under optional updates. It installs the Intel(R) Watchdog Timer Driver (Intel(R) WDT), which had never been installed before. So I presume this one can be easily installed.
As for the other ones, just copy them and search in Microsoft Update Catalog to get a better grasp of what they are.

My laptop, which is a Intel i5-2450M Dual core 2.50GHz system shows no Optional Updates choice. Why. No consistency but then I forget, this is Microsoft so why would I expect that

I like your approach Dimitri. I'll do as you suggest and look up each one I don't recognize and see what it's for but I have no intention of installing any of them since my Lenovo is running perfectly right now. Of course I've said that before but then curiosity gets the better of me and I install stuff anyway, just to see what happens.

Ztruker said:

My Lenovo is completely up to date as far as drivers go yet it offered me the long list or down level drivers. Totally wrong and definitely not a good thing to do. It should not even show an Optional Updates choice to me unless there is something new. That is what I see on my Laptop, nothing.

Are you sure about it being completely up to date? I was surprised to see the drivers on offer had newer versions than what I already had installed, and this is on a PC that I thought was fully up to date also. I used Microsoft Update Catalogue to check. These are system drivers that has already been detected in the device manager, only now they can also be seen in Windows Update. The implementation is not great if they offer outdated drivers, but the idea of them (new ones, not the outdated ones ) being seen in Windows Update is good to me.

Shoot: I went through this on my 5 or 6 PCs running current version 2004. No problems to report. Just didn't get around to posting that info here. Been a crazy week.
--Ed--