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
    2017-02-13T05:00:22+00:00

     I'm confused - I thought that there are no more individual updates since they started the monthly roll-ups in October. (I haven't used Windows Update since then.) Has something changed recently?

    Microsoft can change the rules to suit their purposes .... so they can say "only roll-ups" one day, and then release individual updates another day.

    I have never installed KB2952664 in the past, and will not do so with this newest release.

    Basically, I no longer trust Microsoft. Windows 10 installations are not as numerous as Microsoft would like ... so who knows what schemes they are now trying to get people to install Windows 10. Personally, I will never install KB2952664, and do not want Windows 10. I will continue running Windows 7 for as long as possible.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-02-13T05:41:49+00:00

    Same here... I also stays on Windows 7 and 8.1 as long as possible. And remark: The KB2952664 (for Windows 7) and the KB2976978 (for Windows 8.1), also comes as a Recommended update!

    If you have disabled the Recommended updates to come with the Important updates, they comes as Optional updates. They are then shown in Italic-type.

    To users, who haven't done it yet:

    Go to Windows update

    Change settings

    Unmark the "Give me recommended updates the same way, i receive important updates"

    Click OK

    Then, this little devil won't just be installed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-13T19:55:08+00:00

    One blog I read yesterday (before I sent the "breaking news" post) said that this patch might be upgraded to important in the near future.  I have no idea if that action would merge the update into a monthly patch Tuesday patch.  That blog gave the name of the executable that this patch installs to send tracking data back to MS.  I no longer have the URL of that blog (I can easily find it later today),  but I plan to find that executable and maybe remove it.  I have no idea what info MS is capturing from my machine.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-03-10T16:22:56+00:00

    Breaking News? - KB2952664 re-appeared yesterday in my Windows 7 Windows Update.   #29 by my count.  When I last installed it on Feb. 12, it seemed to install c:windows\system32\CompatTelRunner.exe , which I assume is the executable that gathers info and sends it to MS.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-03-11T10:38:14+00:00

    I have stopped Windows 7 updates long time ago and so I don't have CompatTelRunner.exe in c:\windows\system32.

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