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
    2016-03-14T08:02:38+00:00

    MS updated my Office 365 this week.  Do you think they might have included "Get Windows 10" with that update?

    Don't know ... but it's possible.

    Is there a KB (or any other identifiable/searchable) number associated with the Office 365 update you received? If so, try searching on that number and the phrase:  Windows 10 ... so see if anyone else had a similar problem after getting Office 356 updated.

    Is Office 365 updated automatically or do you have to click something to get the updates (Sorry for all these questions, I do not have Office 365). Is Office 365 updated via the Windows Update process, or some other process (such as settings within the app itself)? If Office 365 is automatically updated, you may want to find out if there is an option to manually control when the updates are downloaded & installed.

    You should probably run the GWX Control Panel after any update from Microsoft.

    As far as which KB updates one should install (versus which ones to hide), Woody Leonard's site recommends that update descriptions in the Windows Update list that begin with "Security update for Windows ..." should be installed, but those that begin with  "Update for Windows ..." should NOT be installed. In other words, install the KB updates that are for security and do not install the others (i.e., non-security).

    I would also recommend to keep updating GWX Control Panel regularly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-11T21:52:49+00:00

    Sooner or later, MicroShove will **** off the wrong person and have bad press and rabid lawyers to deal with. And, with any luck, invasion of privacy or even theft charges.

    Their increasing desperation to force a product on a market that obviously does not want it is fuelling an arrogance that will be their downfall. This will not end well for them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-11T20:33:02+00:00

    Should be interesting if the reverting doesn't go well :)

    Which it rarely does ;)

    We need more lawyers and judges to get whacked by corrupting there installs/ not genuine good stuff like that.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-11T20:23:01+00:00

    Another update - I was just listening to Thom Hartmann's radio talk show, and during his show one of the MS computers that he uses in his studio auto-installed Windows 10.  So, that computer was not accessible during his show.  Near the end of his show the installation completed, and one of Thom's assistants, who, I believe is a lawyer, looked at the license agreement and decided to click "DECLINE", at which  time the computer started reverting to the previous version of Windows.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-11T19:12:46+00:00

    I guess I'm just gonna have to rely on my third-party security software to do its job. And up my doomsday readiness with more frequent backups. And I guess accept that "sooner than I thought" is even sooner than that.

    Accepting trojan nagware is not an option. I will send my tax returns by snail mail and find the nearest branch of my bank before I willingly hand over the keys to my computer to MicroShove.

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