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
    2016-02-02T04:11:41+00:00

    BEWARE!!!!

    As of February 1, 2016, Microsoft has kept its promise to implement yet another way to coerce customers into installing Windows 10:  the Windows 10 installation process is being categorized as a recommended update in the Windows Update process (for more information see here, here, here, and here).

    What this means is that anyone who has selected the following two settings in Windows Update:

    • Important Updates: "Install Updates Automatically"
    • Recommended Updates: Checked the box that says "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates:

    ... will find that the Windows 10 installation process automatically downloads and starts.

    From what I have read, it is possible to stop the Windows 10 installation process after it starts ... but who knows whether all changes made up to that point will be successfully backed out.

    Like others have previously mentioned in this thread, I recommend that (1) Windows Update's Important Updates setting be either "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" or "Never check for updates" and (2) Windows Update's Recommended Updates setting UNCHECK the box that says "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates"

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-31T03:19:23+00:00

    Stop emails

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-30T06:55:31+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-30T04:28:06+00:00

    Not for me all of them including kb2952664 have been in the optional section

    It's a Recommended update that will appear in the Important section IF the windows updates settings are not like this

    The Give me Recommended updates..... box must be Unchecked.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-30T00:24:02+00:00

    The only sneaky one so far was kb3112343 imho

    Everything else 10 related would and has fallen into the optional section where most people if they don't want 10 just should not be looking in there ;)

    Focus only on the Important updates which 3112343 was and most likely will continue M$ added some high cpu issues in it as well just for good measure :p

    Several of the telemetry, nagware, and other suspect updates, including the one that appears in the title of this thread, have been marked "important". If these updates were all marked "optional", we wouldn't be having most of this discussion.

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