GiGaBiTe
Veteran Member
None of my Win7 machines tries to harass me about updating to Win10.
That's because Microsoft ended the forced Windows 10 upgrade scheme back in 2016, and removed all of the updates that force upgraded you. While that program was active, Microsoft issued dozens of updates, usually reissuing the same update numerous times to try and get around people blocking those updates from being installed. The only update they did not remove was KB4493132, which is the full screen nag message telling you that you're out of support.
And while Microsoft "officially" ended the free Windows 10 upgrade back then, they quietly left the program in place up until late last year, when they finally pulled the plug. But they did it in the worst way possible, they didn't update their Windows 10 install media to reject earlier Windows keys. So if you need to reinstall Windows for whatever reason, you can put your key in and it will accept it, but when Windows goes to activate, it will throw an error about an invalid product key. And their Windows 10 downloader also will still upgrade Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in-place without telling you anything, and then not activate once the upgrade is complete.
If you are running W7 via VM then that KB is probably for W10 and not specific to an actual W7 install.
Uh, no. Windows Update does not show updates for other versions of Windows. That update is a valid Windows 7 update and installed fine yesterday.