What exactly does KB2952664 do?

There is only one way to stop Microsoft's invasion of your computer.  Set the WU setting to NEVER.....  Then you take the responsibility of updating, when, what and whether you decide.

That works to a limited  degree for Windows 7, and simply is not available for Windows 10.  Starting in October 2016 Microsoft's WU policy changed to one they called "quality roll-up".  That actually means that all updates are enclosed in ONE update that includes not only the Quality ones insinuated in the name, but all the non-quality ones it decides to include.   Leaving you much less control.

I can tell you this.  My 150 client Windows 7 computers have not included a Microsoft Update since May 2017.  They run dramatically more reliably and stable by far.  Not a single instance of a problem.  My phone rings less than half as often now.  Who cares about January 2020???

I have Removed or hidden this update 5 or 6 times, and it keeps coming back.

It is a sick way to advertise products users does not want.

Disegard of the customers wishes and overwrting their personal settings.

This is a PC = PERSONAL COMPUTER.

And it is MINE - NOT M$'s!

Hasn't this go on long enough?

They did enough damage to their reputation with all the trickery to get people to downgrade to Win10; they've also made it basically impossible to avoid it by 2020 (next year or late this year for the newest processors).

Can't they end this trickery of slipping in telemetry in with other updates?  As is, I now only accept security upgrades unless I really really need something, becuase of all this nonsense.  Almost none of their updates says what it is (most "resolve issues" without saying what).  I don't have time to open each one to see what it does, and besides, when I did, they don't say much, and certainly wouldn't say "we added something to spy on you behind your back").  As is, I think they snuck on something back in the tricked Win10 downgrade days, claiming to be a security upgrade, but either was not that at all, or it included a little "bonus".

We shouldn't have to be using this thread to try to "catch" them, they should get back some degree of trust by stopping this.

I'm already thinking about Linux for my next computer.  Will I do that?  Likely not, but while I use it comfortably at work, I had NEVER considered it at home until this Win10 fiasco.

 I'm confused - I thought that there are no more individual updates since they started the monthly roll-ups in October. (I haven't used Windows Update since then.) Has something changed recently?

Microsoft can change the rules to suit their purposes .... so they can say "only roll-ups" one day, and then release individual updates another day.

I have never installed KB2952664 in the past, and will not do so with this newest release.

Basically, I no longer trust Microsoft. Windows 10 installations are not as numerous as Microsoft would like ... so who knows what schemes they are now trying to get people to install Windows 10. Personally, I will never install KB2952664, and do not want Windows 10. I will continue running Windows 7 for as long as possible.

Ratandeep,

I will never update my computer to Windows 8 (or any of its follow-ons).

What exactly does KB2952664 do, and can I safely hide and never install that update?