No file association for .msu files on fresh Win 7 install

[Pozidriv]

I just did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 with an updated/patched ISO. Event Viewer is clean. I haven't installed many programs yet, but I have come across something that confused me. I was looking at my folder of downloaded Windows updates, and could immediately tell by the file icons (like a piece of blank white paper) that I couldn't open any of the files. Trying to open any of them confirmed this, as the "open with" box pops up.

Even more confusing is that I used the same preset that created the prior ISO I had installed where I didn't have this issue, and I actually edited the settings to remove less this time around because of an issue I had with portable device driver support. I guess I shouldn't be using NTLite past midnight when I should be in bed.

I've included the preset... what did I do wrong?

 

[garlin]

What part of Windows understands what a .MSU file does? No more NTLite modding past midnight for you!

                <c>windowsupdate 'Windows Update'</c>

From my own W7 system:

amd64_microsoft-windows-wusa_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_0b2696ec2f3c656d.manifest:
    <registryKey keyName="HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.msu" owner="false">

 

[Pozidriv]

Thank you (again). I thought removing Windows Update meant that I wouldn't be able to use the update service to download updates, not that I wouldn't be able to manually update.

I'll remove that line from my next preset, but... since it existed in my previous preset as well, why didn't I have this issue on that installation? Opening .MSU files wasn't a problem. Is there a way to add that functionality back to an in-place system? If there is, and if I did it before, I have no memory of it.

 

[garlin]

If you don't have wusa.exe (which explains the missing file association), then you must install MSU files by manually extracting them, and applying the internal CAB files.

Install Windows Update file (*.msu) without having Windows update service activated

Host refresh doesn't work below W10. The only option would be a repair install using a corrected ISO.

 

[Pozidriv]

OK, that's fine, I'll just make another ISO. Just don't know why this wasn't an issue with the previous Win 7 install since I had used the same preset.