Legacy Update News

Legacy Update 1.13.2 addresses a security issue in the Legacy Update ActiveX control.

Legacy Update 1.13.1 fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with some Lenovo devices and Intel Macs.

Legacy Update 1.13 improves handling of some edge cases you might run into while using Legacy Update.

The Legacy Update website has been completely rebuilt.

Today, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (based on Windows Vista and 7) finally, truly reach end of support.

You’ve been asking me for years, and I finally did it.

It’s been great to see the positive response to the new Download Center archive.

We now have a dedicated page to download Windows XP PowerToys and Fun Packs.

Hi everyone!

After 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support.

This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely.

Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12.

Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release.

I set up a workaround on the server that should fix Legacy Update being blocked by some ISPs (specifically, I just set up a new subdomain and redirected all Windows Update download traffic through there).

Hi everyone!

Hopefully most of you won’t need to worry about this, but if you’re seeing Legacy Update say it’s been blocked by your firewall, there’s some explanation of why here.

Earlier this week, users of Legacy Update started reporting errors when checking for updates on Windows 7.

A fair few people asked me what is going on with Microsoft’s recent announcement that drivers will be deleted from Windows Update, so I wrote up some notes about it: What is going on with Windows Update and drivers?

I restructured our FAQ section into a new Help section.

Update: The issue has been fixed.