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
    2018-07-10T21:53:35+00:00

    Considering all the negative feedback, and the fact that so many people downgraded to WIn10, I thought they would have stopped forcing the downgrade.

    I actually tried to downgrade last December, and it failed.  I figure I'll try again around 2020 when they pull the rug out from under Win7 -- I was told that the attempt would lock in my "free" downgrade.  I had saved an image of my PC in case I had to blow everything away and restore Win7 and half expected to need it, but since the downgrade failed, they (Dell likely, maybe Microsoft) said I would have to work with them for a long time, I just declined.

    I had done what I needed -- lock in the free downgrade.  But if they're going to attempt it without my permission, I need to stop it, and I think the GWX Control Panel should still work.  (I had stopped it when they said they stopped tricking us into downgrading.)  Interesting; it's been stopped all year and there are no updates; I hope it still works.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-10T22:14:04+00:00

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