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#How to update internet explorer for meltdown fix update

Customers that use tools linking to the Microsoft Download Center should follow the links provided in the Security Bulletins or search directly on the Microsoft Update Catalog.įor those who aren't familiar with the Microsoft Update Catalog website, note that it still requires using Internet Explorer at this point because of an ActiveX control used. Security bulletins will continue to link directly to the updates, but will point to the packages on the Microsoft Update Catalog instead of the Microsoft Download Center. Within the next few months Windows updates will no longer be available from the Microsoft Download Center.

Microsoft senior product manager Nathan Mercer said in a May 17 blog post: Microsoft has told us, as recently as this May, that it's going to fix the Update Catalog real soon now. If you go to the KB article and click on the link to download the patch, you get the helpful note shown here that "you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later." That's because the site relies on a long-discredited and rapidly fading technology Microsoft-proprietary technology known as ActiveX. The official Windows Update page lists it as "Deployment: Catalog," which means you can only get it by going to the Microsoft Update Catalog, downloading, and manually installing it. That fix, KB 3187022, has been available for at least a week, but it isn't being distributed through Windows Update. As I explained earlier today, even the patch that fixes Microsoft's botched security update KB 3177725 is only available in the Windows Update Catalog.

Many patches don't go through the usual Windows Update channels.