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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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Barry
This update performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program.
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Article ID: 2952664 - Last Review: 04/07/2016 20:12:00 - Revision: 20.0
Another update since March 31 - KB2952664 just reappeared in Windows Update. Note that I have not hidden this update, and I have installed it 23 times before.
I got my first email from Microsoft today that was 100% Windows 10 spam. I marked it "Phishing Scam" on outlook.com so at least someone might take notice,
I've been hearing a lot about this I.E 11 update that includes Win 10 nagware but so far haven't encountered it. Part of the reason may be because I use the Untangle firewall and its Ad Block module. It hoses pretty much any Ads that exist on the Internet, so I guess it's neutering the Win 10 ads as well. I have seen them at client sites while doing maintenance but I assumed it's because they already have the Win 10 GWX BS installed on the computers.
I highly recommend Untangle. You can download it (for free) at http://www.untangle.com/get-untangle/ and install it on Windows, or better yet throw it on an old PC because it is a lean, mean Linux distro that out performs SonicWall and doesn't cost a dime. I haven't had to deal with any pop-up ads during my Web browsing in almost 10 years. The paid version is even sweeter and the folks at Untangle just released one for home users at an amazing $50.00 per year.
I've managed a lot of firewalls, my favorite being CheckPoint, but I can't afford that level of protection. For SOHO users Untangle is the gold standard.
Just my 2 cents.
That app SHOULD be GWX. Not sure how it works -- does it actively block updates, warn you BEFORE applying, or only detect and back off if you fell for it? I installed it recently and scored 100 -- I hadn't installed any of their hacks, and had disabled all the right things.
(I also read somewhere and changed a registry and/or group policy setting that should also prevent me from downgrading to Win10.
Dies anyone know the status of that IE11 security upgrade, that apparently had included annoyware, maybe wasting screen real estate with an ad to do the upgrade? I haven't applied that and don't know what to do about that.
As bad as this **** is that microsoft keeps trying to trick us or annoy us into downgrading to Win10, sneaking it into a security update because they knew that people have been only installing security updates is far beyond. You either get suckered into it, or you are missing important security fixes. I wonder if that will make them liable for forcing people to be vulnerable.
