Now KB2952664 has shown up again. Will install it and cross my fingers.
What exactly does KB2952664 do?
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2015-07-10T11:26:17+00:00 (KB3035583) This just showed up for me too.
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Anonymous
2015-07-10T03:26:44+00:00 Another update - I just installed W10 preparation patch KB3035583 for the third time (Mar 28, May 15, Jul 09).
--Barry Finkel
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Anonymous
2015-07-09T17:26:36+00:00 Another update - I did re-install KB2952664 yesterday afternoon (automatically) when I installed a pattern update to MSE. There was no reboot required; the reboot must have been required by the other patch I installed yesterday. When I did a Windows Update this morning, this 2664 patch was no longer in the list of patches waiting to be applied.
--Barry Finkel
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Anonymous
2015-07-08T18:55:36+00:00 I installed KB2952664 this morning, as I install all patches when they appear in Windows update. By my count, that install was #14. After I saw the last reply, I checked WU again, and the patch re-appeared. I will NOT install this until I hear that MS has corrected it so that it does not automatically ask to be re-installed. And, I believe that this patch requires a reboot, and I have already rebooted a few times in the past few days.
--Barry Finkel