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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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Like others are posting, I would hold off until Microsoft "officially" updates the page. The validity of this patch, has gone viral all over the web. I do not know why it is taking so long for Microsoft to update the page with a description of the patch. Does any "MVP's" would like to chime in on that? That would be great.
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...you all know the link will be fixed soon.
How soon? The update-known-as-KB976902 has been available to Win7 SP1 Beta testers since June 2010 (if not earlier) and there's STILL no corresponding KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976902) even though Win7 SP1 Release Candidate became available on 26 Oct-10.
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Well, just in case people care, after installing the RC of 7 SP1, this update is installed along with it.
I think this has appeared on Windows update because the download version of the service pack is smaller, and things like this are cut out. So it becomes available as a seperate download. So one of two things have happened. Either the servicing stack update went onto Windows update along with the RC of SP1 (which you need a signup tool to see) but they made the mistake of not protecting the servicing stack update like the service pack. Or the servicing stack is finalised so they have released that ahead of the SP.
I personally think that it was put onto the main Windows Update by mistake, this isn't the first time I've seen it. So for now do what you want, it will only become an issue with the release of the service pack anyway.
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