How to remove Windows 10 upgrade updates in Windows 7 and 8

Lady Fitzgerald said:

MS will take a hit in the stock market if Win 10 flops like Win 8 did so they are pulling every underhanded trick they can think of to trick people into upgrading downgrading to Win 10 so they show off impressive numbers to give the illusion that Win 10 is a hit (taking a page chapter from Daryl Huff's book, How to Lie with Statistics), then count on the sheeple to roll over and take it.

60 million+ upgrades have taken place already..
it's the largest undertaking of it's kind - ever..
I imagine the stock market will be mightily impressed if anything..

those updates you keep getting in the background will simply make the transition smoother
they are not designed to force you into upgrading, and MS aren't reducing support for earlier OS's

I agree 50/50% of success is not good enough odds being people rarely if ever backup their personal files not to mention the entire os install

If errors occur which they usually will it might get ugly not to mention time consuming :/

Anything helpful is usually a double edged sword it can backfire just as easily = Murphy's law tweaked

I received a notification that an update was available (Windows Defender).
Before trying to install it, I checked my "Hidden Updates" list and KB2952664 was listed.

However KB2952664 had also reappeared in the Windows Update Optional list!

Well, my failure rate with Win10 upgrades far exceeds the 50/50! I have three Win7 PCs, all older boxes. Of the two I tried, the first failed early into the upgrade -- soon enough that it rolled back to Win7 without a problem. The second got farther, but failed as well. So, upon advice from a Windows 10 forum, I tried again, this time, using the ISO I downloaded. But, it failed again -- and this time, left the PC in an unusable state. I was able to repair startup and get it booting again, but it's taken me three days of hard work to get it back to the working state it was in PRIOR to the upgrade attempt.

Wouldn't be surprised if my two PCs were included in the latest stats of how many PCs are running Win10!

Yea I just get tiered of downloading iso's
Downloads are so unpredictable with internet connection...
Then you get into the bootable media creation tools :/

lehnerus2000 said:

I received a notification that an update was available (Windows Defender).
Before trying to install it, I checked my "Hidden Updates" list and KB2952664 was listed.

However KB2952664 had also reappeared in the Windows Update Optional list!

I've had that update appear a few times now. It seems like different versions are being released and that might explain why it keeps returning!

From WU Log:

hxxp://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2015/07/windows6.1-kb2952664-v13-x64_e9daf4b5a068edc70fa7bd7ec1e538d6e8f2f907.msu
for file 6dr0taBo7ccPp71+weU41ujy+Qc= when file has not been previously added to the datastore

hxxp://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2015/07/windows6.1-kb2952664-v12-x64_e326a7b535c8f62b160b59ab59ffb071bacd891b.msu
for file 4yantTXI9isWC1mrWf+wcbrNiRs= when file has not been previously added to the datastore

I got curious to see the updates installed and saw more KB2952664 installed(since May 2014)
The last was on March o.O' (I did not install the patches on the same day, but after a few weeks.)

I do not understand. I think it is normal to have more than one right ? Because the patch appeared last year there is no problem in having more than one... right ?

[]Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7,
[]KB2952664 update won't install
(There appears to have not a negative comment about the patches)


But why now we have to avoid install it ?

Which I am avoiding are from June and August.