What exactly does KB2952664 do?

Anonymous
2014-04-27T00:12:24+00:00

KB2952664 was published on April 22, 2014 and appears in my Windows Update List (I am running Windows 7 Pro - 64 bit).

The description of this update is vague:  "This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows."

Anyone have more information on what this update actually does? If its sole purpose is to ease the "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (or 8.1 or 8.1 update), then I'll just permanently hide KB2952664 (I have no desire or intention to "upgrade" my Windows 7 system to any flavor of Windows 8).

If its purpose is to ease what would be a true Windows 7 upgrade to a yet-to-be-announced Windows 7 SP2, then I'll keep it (but still would like to have more information about what KB2952664 actually does before installing).

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-05-19T03:33:19+00:00

    On Feb 03 I hid  KB3123862, Win 10 "nagware".  Today it re-appeared in Windows Update, so I  re-hid it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-05-13T14:48:48+00:00

    On May 04 I hid nagware patch KB3150513.  It re-appeared in my Windows 7 Professional Windows Update this morning.  I re-hid it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-11T21:00:15+00:00

    "  ...I would consider installing Win 10 on either if I could install the new OS in dual-boot mode."

    Barry,

    You can. I installed Win 10 on both the laptop and the PC from a DVD.

    While Win 10 is still free (until July I think) you have the option of downloading the ISO so that you can do a "clean" install. Just use whatever boot manager you want (or edit your boot.ini file) and you can dual boot the system . That is what I did when I participated in the Win 10 beta program in 2014. I dual-booted with Win 7 Pro.

    One caveat; if you decide to uninstall Win 10 it's going to leave behind a boatload of **** that can only be removed by using a Linux boot disk and manually removing the folders and files it leaves behind (roughly a couple dozen gigs).

    Hope that helps,

    Donald

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-11T17:29:40+00:00

    Sure you can you just have to buy win-10

    I use one of these to dual boot a safer way by just removing the os's when I want to use the other after shut down

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CDSVXTY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-05-11T14:10:09+00:00

    One further comment.  I have a Windows 7 Professional desktop, and I "babysit" a Windows 8.1 laptop.  I would consider installing Win 10 on either if I could install the new OS in dual-boot mode.  I do not want to install a new OS on top of my existing OS, as I want to be able to boot the older OS in case of problems.  But the free Windows 10 install does not allow that.  My Windows 7 system can boot into XP, if I really need it.

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