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
    2016-05-07T00:30:45+00:00

    Guys,

    Unfortunately MS won't allow me to upload an Excel spreadsheet so I have to provide it myself, but if you read the entries, they are pretty much self-explanatory. Avoid the RED suspect the ORANGE and have one on me.

    Not the entire spreadsheet, but a small section pastes fairly well.  Colors are lost.  As you can see I'm conflicted about KB3138612.

    *Install together if possible
    M=Threads on microsoft board
    H[#]=Hidden[times]
    W=askwoody.com
    U=Uninstalled
    Y=Yes
    KB2505438 M
    KB2952664 H3 Tue 20160112
    KB2976978 W
    KB2977759 U
    KB2990214 M
    KB2999226 M
    KB3004394 M
    KB3021917 H
    KB3022345 U
    KB3035583 H3 Thu 20160225
    KB3058168 M
    KB3068708 H
    KB3075249 H
    KB3075851 M
    KB3080149 H
    KB3080149 M
    KB3083324 U
    KB3083710 U
    KB3090045 U
    KB3093594 W Thu 20160114
    KB3112343 H
    KB3114570 W Fri 20160115
    KB3114717 W Fri 20160212
    KB3115445 M Tue 20160209
    KB3118401 W
    KB3123862 M Tue 20160209
    KB3138612 H2 Wed 20160302
    KB3138612 M Tue 20160209
    KB3138612 Y*
    KB3138615 W
    KB3139398 W?
    KB3139852 W?
    KB3139929 W
    KB3145739 Y*
    KB3150513 M

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-05-07T05:31:01+00:00

    http://owncloud.woodlynrd.com/owncloud/

    This site is blocked because it violates network policy.

    Host: owncloud.woodlynrd.com

    URI: /owncloud/

    Reason: Parked - Web pages that have been purchased to reserve the name but do not have any real content.

    Please contact your network administrator

    Never seen that before; no idea who is intercepting and blocking that.  I used two different browsers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-07T06:21:21+00:00

    I would recommend the following video: Disable Windows 10 Spying - Privacy & Security

    Let me know what you think...

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-08T00:39:31+00:00

    http://owncloud.woodlynrd.com/owncloud/

    This site is blocked because it violates network policy.

    Host: owncloud.woodlynrd.com

    URI: /owncloud/

    Reason: Parked - Web pages that have been purchased to reserve the name but do not have any real content.

    Please contact your network administrator

    Never seen that before; no idea who is intercepting and blocking that.  I used two different browsers.

    This is a zvelo thing (https://zvelo.com/)

    I contacted them a few weeks ago and they got it straightened out. Seems like they need to update their filters again. I've made a temporary fix on my end. , so give it another try. In the mean time I'll contact zvelo and have them give it a permanent fix.

    Sorry about that.

    DK

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-05-08T01:11:10+00:00

    Tnx, that helped.

    Now that I see it, that sheet would be much more useful if instead of (or in addition to) the color coding, you added a column showing the risks.  That way one could sort by or filter by the risks, instead of just going through the lists.

    One of these days I'm going to get a new PC and upgrade to Win7 -- I suspect it will be a MAJOR update, and I'll have to pull out all the ones to avoid.  OR does GWX10 actually block them or warn somehow?  I run it and it tells me I'm clean, and I have it run in the background, but I don't know what or how it prevents anything.

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