Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?

[m654321]

I have the win7 installation disk but are the updates still available? I ask this because the other day I tried a fresh install of win7 and was connected to the internet (300Mb/s) for several hours for initial updating & patching with little success - I thought updates were available until April 2019, as with LL2.8 ...
Mike

Finally, I was able to solve this issue and have now successfully done a fresh clean install of  Win7 (fully-patched) in dual-boot with LL3.0 [setup (1) in signature below]. I have also been able to recommence updating an already established Win7 dual-boot [setup (3) in sig] - the latter seems to have got 'stuck' with updating back in June 2016.  A few internet searches revealed that the problem of Win7 failing to find updates was a common one, either for a fresh clean install or for an already well established one.  The problem (in both cases) appears to be due to a missing file, which can be readily downloaded - the fix is as follows:

(1) for a fresh clean install of Win7: download & install  this package  Windows6.1-KB3135445-x64.msu
(2) for an already established install of Win7: download & install WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x64.exe

I'm no expert on this, by any measure, but there may well be other ways of kickstarting the microsoft updating process.

Also, good news beginning October 2016 - "monthly rollups" to download will be available for Win8.1 and Win7. This is essentially a  package of security patches, though there is no mention of it being called SP2.  It is a cumulative package, which means if you forgot the October download, you will get October's patches in the November one, or if you missed the downloads for October, November & December, you will get them in the January 2017 download, etc. See the following link from Microsoft for more details:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...fcb?auth=1

So, "Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?" (title of this thread) - it would seem that the answer is certainly "no".  On reflection, I don't think it would make good business sense for Microsoft to leave Win7 and Win8 users in the lurch, especially as take-up of Win10 hasn't been as great as they would have liked...

Hope this is useful
Mike