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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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How do you know ? Who told you ?
>> I've hidden mine but when I inspect it in hidden updates KB976902 says "Update Type: Important", not "Update Type: Recommended". OMG what a mess.
It was "Recommended" when I installed it - note the date of installation, as I pulled it from my update history, and there the updates are described with the same status, description, etc, as they were at the time of installation. I think Microsoft changed the status later then.
>> Anyways, why would you think this is a "pre-requisite" for a future download of a RC-status software anyway? Why would I want to download SP1 RC?? If anything, i would download the final release...
My fault, see Andre.Ziegler's response above, as he is right, it's an update to the servicing stack, and handles any future updates. As far as I remember, same update for Vista (but with a different KB number) was released, and it was a pre-requiste to install for example Internet Explorer 8, or the Platform Update. As for the SP1RC, same thing goes here - to installany next-version stuff, the servicing stack should be updated first. I mentioned SP1RC here to the purpose of an example.
We're both right (referring to Andre), I just described it in layman's terms
