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Legacy Update News

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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:

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I restructured our FAQ section into a new Help section. It’ll take some time, but I’d really like to build this up to have a bunch of info on all sorts of Windows Update issues. We were already sort of starting to do that, but it was making the “common issues” page way too long! It should be way easier to navigate now.

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Update: The issue has been fixed. If you’re getting error 80244021, please note that this post is outdated.


Using Legacy Update on Vista or Server 2008 and getting error 80244021? Don’t worry, it’s not just you. We’re looking into what we can do to fix it.

I’ll be posting updates as we learn more about the issue here:

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Wew, ok, I did it. Legacy Update 1.11 is out. It fixes, like, everything. Ever had a bug installing Legacy Update? We probably fixed it. It also installs updates even faster on Windows Vista/7, and yes, the bootloop bug is fixed. Huge thanks as always to everyone who contributed to this release!