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Today I saw an update on my windows 7 laptop with kb 976902. It said that it is to allow future updates to install correctly and that after it was installed, I could not remove it. I looked on Knowledge Base for the article about it and it comes back with no results. I have read at some places that it is used by SP1 beta. I do not have SP1 Beta installed on my system.
Does anybody know what this update is for?
Thank you in advance,
vader95
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This isn't SP1 or beta software or even malware (perplexed9, use some common sense). It's an update that readies the system for when the service pack is released. This occured with the service packs for Vista too.
However this update should not have been released without proper documentation so it wouldn't surprise me if people hold off until there are notes available.
*UPDATE* - Documentation has been released - http://support.microsoft.com/KB/976902
We have publiced the corresponding KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976902
KB976902 is the update to the servicing stackcomponent, same purpose with this update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937287
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This is a simple update to the Windows servicing stack, most likely in preperation of SP1. It updates the servicing stack from 6.1.7600 to 6.1.7601, you can get this information yourself by just looking at the contents of the update package.
With directories named amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17105_none_67912f55dde10d6f and x86_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17105_none_0b7293d225839c39 and looking inside finding things like pkgmgr etc it is easy to work out what this update is for. As others have said, this update is exactly like what came with the Vista SP1 and SP2, and it is also most likely installed along with the current RC of the service pack too. All it does is updates the Windows servicing stack ready for the service pack.
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KB976902 came out October 26th and...
[Actually, KB976902's been available since mid-June, at least, & was a Prerequisite Update for installing Win7/Win2008 R2 SP1 Beta. AFAIK AU only started "pushing" KB976902 on the 26th when SP1 RC became available.]
For those of you who haven't yet installed or hidden this updaye, does it say Recommended or Important now?
If they changed the status to Recommended then I'm not installing it and let's see how I can install SP1 down the road, this being a prerequisite. LOL.
