Windows 8 support?

[royallo]

Hey, i have win8 installed on my laptop MSI GT70 0ne, and im facing problem with using win update, my update stays at 0kb downaloaded/0% downloaded all the time, been up like this for hours. Also, im doing trying to update on fresh win8. Is there a way to use WSUS on win8? Only options i see are win7/8.1/10 and 2k, tried doing update through WSUS on 8.1 but it didnt want to work.

[aker]

The Windows 8.0 support of wsusou has been removed due to the MS lifecycle policy.

I'd suggest you to install a prepacked Update-pack and then upgrade to 8.1 as 8.0 isn't secure anymore.
An example (but German) would be this one: http://winfuture.de/downloadvorschalt,2934.html

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http://www.chip.de/downloads/CHIP-Windo ... 13260.html
This one uses wsusou as its base. The download page is in German, but the pack itself will support English as wsusou does so.
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[HaoleBoy]

Hello.

I understand why you have discontinued support for Windows 8, but I would like to ask you to reconsider this given the following scenario that I'm going through right now:

A PC that was originally Windows 8 and that had been upgraded to 8.1 has a total hard disk failure. A new hard drive is installed and recovery media is obtained from the manufacturer of the PC. Unfortunately, the recovery media installs Windows 8 (and NOT 8.1) on the machine. So, the user has to install close to 200 Windows Updates before being offered the chance to upgrade to Windows 8.1. Isn't this a scenario where WSUS Offline would be a valuable tool?

I appreciate your consideration of this suggestion.

Mahalo,

Harry Z.

[Dalai]

Maybe your PC manfacturer offers a 8.1 installation medium, but that might not be free of charge.

However, you can download the 8.1 ISO from Microsoft and do a fresh (and clean!) install on your system. Since the Product Key is embedded in the BIOS/UEFI, you should be able to install Windows without having to enter any Product Key.

Regards
Dalai