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The Zombie Upgrade

by Bryan

The other update you have to eliminate to get rid of Winten nagging is KB2952664. This OPTIONAL update is responsible for lying to you about the fitness of your computer for Windows 10, part of the con game to get you to upgrade. It is as flaky as Win 10 is for any computer more than a year old. As someone who spent more than a week looking up error codes and changing settings to get my newest, most powerful box to load Windows 10 I know that KB2952664 is hazardous to your health.

4 comments

1 Kryten42 { 06.12.16 at 5:11 am }

HI. Been offline the past week. Did I miss anything important? 🙂

Anhow, regarding this topic… There is also the Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583.

Steve Gibson (GRC) has a tool that legally & legitimately gives the user control over whether they want to upgrade Win7 or 8.1 to Win10. No installation of any software is needed, it makes the required changes to the W7/8.1 system. More info & d/l here:

Never 10

Note: I’ve not been a fan of Gibson for some historical reasons. But this does what he says. I tried it on my W7 system a couple weeks ago, and no problems since.

2 Bryan { 06.12.16 at 1:57 pm }

I took out the GWX update a couple of weeks ago and revoked all of M$ privileges for putting things on my computer after they attempted to sneak it by me. I just found them trying to get the 2952664 by as an optional but recommended update.

Not much happening and I was watching the first tropical event in a long time hit Florida.

3 Kryten42 { 06.18.16 at 2:33 am }

I don’t know if this is useful to you (or anyone), but if you still use Win 7, M$ have released an update (they call a “Convenience rollup”). It includes all post SP1 updates until April 2016. Only problem is that is only available via the old MS Update Catalog which requires IE to grab. It’s about 480 MB (for the x64 version).

Info on the update (d/l link at bottom):
Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

I meant to post about this over a month ago. Got delayed. I was just reinstalling W7 and remembered.:)

NB. If you use an updater like WSUS, AutoPatcher etc., they will update automatically.

4 Bryan { 06.18.16 at 8:02 pm }

Thanks, Kryten. I’ll need that when I “fix” my big box after the Win 10 disaster.