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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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KB3138612:
This update contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138612
As long as that's all that is known about this, I'll pass. My definition of "improvements" is different than Microsoft's.
Last one here is a new kid on the block ;)
Rijkstra,
You could try looking at the update history in Windows Update to see if an update has recently been installed (since the last time you remember installing updates).
I have not heard about "sleeper" updates (that coerce the installation of Windows 10), but I suspect that Microsoft will start getting more aggressive in meeting their stated objective of having Windows 10 installed on a billion computers. Who knows what new tricks Microsoft will think up.
Those of us who do not want Windows 10 on our computers will have to be very vigilant.
GWX Control Panel detected the Get Windows 10 app on my Win 7 machine today and I'm sure I haven't installed any updates since the last time it came up clean. What is going on? GWXCP was able to remove it, but how did they sneak it in in the first place? Are they installing apps that sleep so their source is hard to trace?
In addition to KB2952664 and KB3138612, I also had KB3035583 in my Windows Update list.
Both KB2952664 and KB3035583 are old updates that attempt to get Windows 10 installed. I had previously hidden both of those updates (many times) and yet Microsoft keeps unhiding them!
