Microsoft silently preparing your PC for Win 10

[Layback Bear]

It's not a witch hunt.

It's a bunch of KB's that are listed as important that are not important.
Also a bunch of KB's with very little information about what they do exactly and what they interact with.

We need full disclosure from Microsoft so we know what is being tried and the reasons.

That is not a witch hunt.
It instead is wanting to be informed what the hell is Microsoft trying to do and how and why with our perfectly good working installed Windows 7.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It's not a witch hunt.

It's a bunch of KB's that are listed as important that are not important.
Also a bunch of KB's with very little information about what they do exactly and what they interact with.

We need full disclosure from Microsoft so we know what is being tried and the reasons.

That is not a witch hunt.
It instead is wanting to be informed what the hell is Microsoft trying to do and how and why with our perfectly good working installed Windows 7.

Thank you!

 

[ThrashZone]

I guess I'll say it again


None of the three updates in question were actually important depending on
how your settings are set it might show up as important,


All 3 for me were in the Optional category even though 1 was a recommended
update = that is up to how your settings are set

Seems one has morphed into Important :/

 

[Melita]

I have blocked all Windows updates until we find out why they are tampering with our computers, when we are not looking. This looks like some sort of a trick to get as many people as possible to change to Windows 10.

 

[whs]

It's not a trick, it's called proactive marketing. They certainly don't want to repeat the "success" of W8/ 8.1. But the customers with large numbers of users like the big corporations are not going to be impressed by that. They go by their own criteria.

 

[ThrashZone]

I'd say Microsoft doesn't want to repeat 8,
8.1 wasn't near as bad numbers wise

 

[Layback Bear]

All I want is for Microsoft not to play Update games with my Windows 7 installs.
Leave my Windows 7 alone with all these damn Windows 10 B/S updates.

Microsoft if you must play these update games; play it with the counterfeiters in China and leave my systems alone.

 

[carwiz]

It's not a witch hunt.

It's a bunch of KB's that are listed as important that are not important.
Also a bunch of KB's with very little information about what they do exactly and what they interact with.

We need full disclosure from Microsoft so we know what is being tried and the reasons.

That is not a witch hunt.
It instead is wanting to be informed what the hell is Microsoft trying to do and how and why with our perfectly good working installed Windows 7.

Ditto! Besides that most of the time the info link doesn't work on a new patch, the patch itself doesn't work or crashes the machine. I don't trust MS to update my machine anymore much less install a new OS with a UI that looks like it was designed in a third-grade art class.

The Insider Forum is full of "yea, lets move forward" comments but W8 and W10 are NOT moving forward. Windows is getting gutted with every new version and the icons look like they came off a cave wall. That's not moving forward.

 

[whs]

Windows is getting gutted with every new version and the icons look like they came off a cave wall.

Do you mean that the icons are paleolithic like the ones from Lascaux that were designed about 17.300 years ago. I think the Lascaux ones are a lot prettier.

 

[carwiz]

LOL... Those are better.

I'm talking about something like this:

 

[whs]

Yeah, yours most be early paleolithic. That's where we are moving to.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Yeah, yours most be early paleolithic. That's where we are moving to.

Back to the Future?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I have blocked all Windows updates until we find out why they are tampering with our computers, when we are not looking. This looks like some sort of a trick to get as many people as possible to change to Windows 10.

That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater and would be very dangerous. Uninstall (if you have already installed them) KB2990214, KB3035583, and KB2952664, then hide them when they show up again. The other updates, so far are pretty much safe. To avoid getting stuck with any further problem updates, set Windows Updates to only notify you of pending updates and don't download them for about a week until you are sure there are no problems (I wait until Saturday morning before downloading and installing).

 

[Melita]

That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater and would be very dangerous. Uninstall (if you have already installed them) KB2990214, KB3035583, and KB2952664, then hide them when they show up again. The other updates, so far are pretty much safe. To avoid getting stuck with any further problem updates, set Windows Updates to only notify you of pending updates and don't download them for about a week until you are sure there are no problems (I wait until Saturday morning before downloading and installing).

Thank you dear, for your concern. Are the 3 updates that you have mentioned above, the only ones that are being sneaked in for W 10? I was under the impression that there are many more that Microsoft has sent down for this purpose.

Regards,

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater and would be very dangerous. Uninstall (if you have already installed them) KB2990214, KB3035583, and KB2952664, then hide them when they show up again. The other updates, so far are pretty much safe. To avoid getting stuck with any further problem updates, set Windows Updates to only notify you of pending updates and don't download them for about a week until you are sure there are no problems (I wait until Saturday morning before downloading and installing).

Thank you dear, for your concern. Are the 3 updates that you have mentioned above, the only ones that are being sneaked in for W 10? I was under the impression that there are many more that Microsoft has sent down for this purpose.

Regards,

Those are the only three I'm aware of so far for Win 7.

 

[Anak]

Actually here is a partial list (Some are just for windows 8/8.1) to get your system read for windows 10.

KB2990214
KB3035583
KB2952664
KB3021917
KB2976978
KB2819745

I can understand one update to notify you to download windows 10 and check a box saying not interested, why prepare a system for windows 10 if the person is not going to upgrade? Just wait tell they want to install windows 10 if ever.

Thank you dear, for your concern. Are the 3 updates that you have mentioned above, the only ones that are being sneaked in for W 10? I was under the impression that there are many more that Microsoft has sent down for this purpose.

Regards,

Melita, were you thinking of the post by groze? The top three are for win7 the bottom three are for 8, 8.1

 

[ThrashZone]

Actually the top 4 are for win-7,
The forth was released 3/10/15 the first I suppose sniffer

 

[Anak]

Thanks Mike,
I looked around, but MS is so secretive its difficult to tell how many are out there and for which version.

 

[ThrashZone]

No problem that post actually reminded me of that forth update being released
I just removed it a day or so ago myself

 

[Anak]

Was it for 7 or 8? KB#?