Windows 7 (KB976902) to enable future updates.

Anonymous
2010-10-27T01:37:32+00:00

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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Anonymous
2010-10-27T09:45:34+00:00

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

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2010-10-29T13:17:02+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2010-10-28T02:06:40+00:00

    I've already seen several problems being encountered since the updates from yesterday...

    This thread isn't about all of the updates released on 26 October, just one of them: KB976902. Did you install KB976902 and only KB976902 yesterday?

    ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (IE, Mail, Security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ Disclaimer: MS MVPs neither represent nor work for Microsoft

    Don't stop there...

       I've already seen several problems being encountered since the updates from yesterday...(to be continued!)

    Part two:

          Whether or not the problems are even related is yet to be seen.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-10-28T02:14:06+00:00

    Some of you guys are hilarious!

    It’s a virus, no it’s a Microsoft conspiracy, no it’s SP1 beta, no it’s because Microsoft is lying to us, no it’s...

    Hard to believe that someone at Microsoft may have just made a mistake (even harder to believe that some of you would forgive that of a Microsoft person)

     

    You can certainly stick your heads in the sand by hiding the update, seriously though you all know the link will be fixed soon. 

     

    How many of you actually review the wording of each update, compare it to what’s published elsewhere and then compare what the update actually touches in the OS on a test machine prior to installing it?  My bet is not many of you actually go to these lengths, so does the KB wording really tell you anything more than the Update details in my opinion not really

    Not-a-techie - Since there is not proper documentation on this from MS, forums like this can help others decide how they may proceed. Speculation and feedback from others may be important since it's all we have on KB976902 (as of this post, there is no further documentation provided by MS). Do you think this update dubbed "the black hole update" was the error of a single poor Microsoft employee? Regardless, forgiveness is not applicable here, this is not a moral issue (yet). Although, indeed this is a corporate blunder, and one can't forgive an inanimate entity, rather one can indeed critique such an entity and one should.

    I take care to read the updates, and I'd bet many people replying here care, after all we are all posting on this issue. Certainly many people will not able to test all aspects of a particular update and a full test of all changes made to the OS would be virtually impossible for any single user. This is why there is controversy over KB976902 especially with a lack of even minimal documentation.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-10-28T02:21:07+00:00

    Vista was a corporate blunder too. Look at how that turned out.

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