Defense in depth — the Microsoft way (part 44): complete failure of Windows Update

Posted by Stefan Kanthak on Oct 19

Hi @ll,

since more than a year now, Windows Update fails (not only, but most
notably) on FRESH installations of Windows 7/8/8.1 (especially their
32-bit editions), which then get NO security updates at all [°]!

One of the many possible causes: Windows Update Client runs out of
(virtual) memory during the search for updates and yields 0x8007000E
alias E_OUTOFMEMORY [‘].

According to <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3050265>…

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