PCMag reviews products, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.Support for Windows 7 is, but access to Windows updates may end in March if you don't allow your Windows 7 machines to download and install Microsoft's next patch.As, Microsoft needs to ensure that the operating system updates end users receive haven't been tampered with. It does this using and SHA-2 hash algorithms to authenticate the updates. The problem is, the SHA-1 algorithm has a weakness and can no longer be relied upon.
Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. Hi there, I have recently discovered my pc is taking 20+ minute to boot up, I have virus scanned and sfc/scannow which has not pick up any violations. Sep 14, 2016 Fixes an issue in which an update installation takes a long time and the Svchost.exe process occupies 100 percent of CPU usage when you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Installing and searching for updates is slow and high CPU usage occurs in Windows 7 and Windows.