KB4012598 The update does not apply to your system

[chris0803]

Hello!

This is my first post in the Vista forums. I just wanted to ask about this patch not installing. I think this is the Wannacry patch but my Vista machine doesn't want to install it. I got Windows Update going again and it tells me that there's no available updates. I don't even know if it's updated up to the last patches in 2017 but it should have done. I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit with SP2.

Would anyone have any ideas how I could get this patch going please? I've been looking online but I can't find a answer that worked yet. I'm not too worried if I can't get this patch installed, it'd just be nice.

Thank you

 

[Vistaar]

Welcome!

You have probably installed one or more updates for Windows Server 2008 SP2 released after April 2017 that replaced KB4012598. It was first superseded by KB4018466 in May 2017.

 

[chris0803]

Welcome!

You have probably installed one or more updates for Windows Server 2008 SP2 released after April 2017 that replaced KB4012598. It was first superseded by KB4018466 in May 2017.
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Thank you!

Ah yeah that makes more sense then, thank you for that! I'll have a look into KB4018466 then, hopefully that'll install.
I know I installed a few Server 2008 updates to get Windows Update going again, mostly needed the sha2 support so I'll see if any of those patches have patched it already.

Thank you again for the help!

 

[wither 3]

For information, I have the 4012598 on this system which is completely up-to-date with the Microsoft Vista updates but doesn't have any of the Server 2008 updates.

 

[Vistaar]

I'll have a look into KB4018466 then, hopefully that'll install. I know I installed a few Server 2008 updates to get Windows Update going again, mostly needed the sha2 support so I'll see if any of those patches have patched it already.

KB4018466 isn’t going to apply either. Either you already have it, or (more likely) you installed at least one monthly rollup issued in February 2019 or later that superseded it. An update “does not apply to your system” if you already have more recent versions of affected files, which I believe must be the case. You can just forget about that particular update.

 

[Volume Z]

An update starts to not apply the moment it gets installed. This is the reason there exists a relief to the Vista general update search issue. The load of having to process a particular update is taken from the Update Service by making it not apply manually. If a superseding version is installed, the equivalent of the update is still present, making it continue to not apply.

When a superseding version of a triggering update became available, an old trigger became applicable in a new wrapper, which is why the issue got relaunched on a monthly basis.