Important
If nothing happens when you open Legacy Update setup on Windows XP, follow these steps to work around a Windows bug.
This release fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with specific hardware.
- Windows 2000:
- Fixes “error (error)” when installing Internet Explorer 6.
- Windows XP:
- Works around a bug in Boot Camp on early Intel Macs that causes “Fatal error during installation. (1603)” when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3.
- Windows Vista:
- Fixes occasional “The RPC server is unavailable” when continuing in setup mode.
- Windows 7:
- Fixes “Access is denied” when checking for updates from a non-elevated Internet Explorer window.
- Works around a bug in the official Windows 7 system image used on 2008 – 2010 Lenovo PCs that causes “The system cannot find the path specified. (3)” when installing updates.
- General fixes:
- Fixes occasional “The server threw an exception” while using the website.
- Fixes Internet Explorer occasionally taking a long time to close while using the website.
- Fixes “Installing Updates” dialog appearing behind Internet Explorer.
- Fixes reinstalling or updating Legacy Update causing backed-up Windows Update registry keys to be lost.
- Updates NSIS to version 3.12, which addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-42171).
