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
    2016-07-01T11:36:58+00:00

    Here's a nice update for everyone :)

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3173040

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-29T03:07:55+00:00

    Yes, they suddenly (after that lawsuit, I guess), discovered that some users actually don't want to upgrade.

    Um, the fact that this forum exists, that programs exist to help people avoid the hijack (I have GWX Control Panel and there's another.

    Also the fact that after all this time there are still a load of people who haven't updated, not a clue.  They have been doing everything to trick people into the upgrade (unhiding updates because something you chose not to install changed, changing things to recommended to get them installed, making you click on the "X" to not install... then subtly changing that X to mean "install now", now they just realized that maybe we really don't want it.

    OR, they realized that if they lost the $10K suit before all the trickery, they'd be much more liable with all the trickery.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-06-29T01:37:22+00:00

    Not too surprising.  I just read a story that someone had sued them for making her computer into a brick.  MS settled out of court for $10,000.  I am simply amazed that millions of litigious Americans have not started a class action suit.

    Just reading the tone of commentary on the Forum, gives one the clear impression that there are likely millions of taken-for-granted Windows owners/users are really fed up.

    I have been a huge MS booster since the mid-80s.  I now have mutated into an expert in stopping MS from wrecking my client's computers.  I am ready to jump the MS ship the moment a real alternative comes along.  I've had it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-06-29T01:09:49+00:00

    "Microsoft is changing the wording of its 'Get Windows 10' update prompt to make cancelling the free update easier and clearer."

    See

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-make-saying-no-to-windows-10-update-easier/?ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=20813398947231680289655684495180

    Are they slowly getting the message?

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