{"id":2477,"date":"2017-03-14T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:20:22","slug":"windows-78-1-march-2017-updates-kb2952664-kb2976978-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/03\/14\/windows-78-1-march-2017-updates-kb2952664-kb2976978-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7\/8.1: March 2017 Updates KB2952664 \/ KB2976978 pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Update\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Windows Update\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Update.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"40\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/13\/windows-78-1-mrz-2017-updates-kb2952664-kb2976978-zurckgezogen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft has pulled yesterday the two March 2017 updates KB2952664 for Windows 7 SP1 and KB2976978 for Windows 8.1 and its corresponding Server versions. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>What's behind Updates KB2952664 \/ KB2976978? <\/h3>\n<p>Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/2952664\/compatibility-update-for-keeping-windows-up-to-date-in-windows-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB2952664<\/a> for Windows 7 SP1 and Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/2976978\/compatibility-update-for-keeping-windows-up-to-date-in-windows-8.1-and-windows-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB2976978<\/a> for Windows 8.1 has been released on March 7, 2017 and shall fixes issued with Windows 7\/8.1 (says Microsoft).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/37LRlJe.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>But both updates offers telemetry functions, as I reported within my February blog post Windows 7\/8.1: Updates KB2952664 \/ KB2976978 are back (again). My recommendation was, to hide those updates.  <\/p>\n<h3>It's not the first time, that those updates has been pulled<\/h3>\n<p>Both updates are offered cyclically each month since years. Yesterday a blog reader pointed out, that both updates KB2952664 and KB2976978 has been withdrawn. I checked my Windows 7 machine, and the update I already blocked from installation has been gone. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB2952664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Update Catalog<\/a> doesn't contain those updates. <\/p>\n<p>Also a bit mysterious: The KB articles for Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/2952664\/compatibility-update-for-keeping-windows-up-to-date-in-windows-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB2952664<\/a> (Windows 7 SP1) and Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/2976978\/compatibility-update-for-keeping-windows-up-to-date-in-windows-8.1-and-windows-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB2976978<\/a> (Windows 8.1) are now from revision date 01\/20\/2017. And Microsoft has withdrawn those updates in February 2017 and re-released it several times (<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?s=KB2952664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see<\/a>). The last release of KB2952664 and KB2976978 was in March 2017. And now both updates has been pulled \u2013 maybe due to incompatibilities with patches (hopefully) arriving tomorrow (March 14, 2017). <\/p>\n<p>KB2952664 and KB2976978 has caused trouble in earlier versions (see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171028053716\/http:\/\/windowsitpro.com:80\/patch-tuesday\/kb2952664-endless-install-loop-some\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/all\/kb2952664-fails-windows-update-with-error-code\/87dd161e-b665-406e-804c-3f01571ff2c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here for update error 0x80242016<\/a>, WU_E_UH_POSTREBOOTUNEXPECTEDSTATE). One of my sources told me, that Microsoft is experimenting with <em>compattelrunner.exe<\/em> and speculates, that there are problems. <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/1069174\/windows-update-kb2952664-compattelrunner-exe-cannot-be-uninstalled-from-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a> somebody wrotes about high CPU load caused by <em>compattelrunner.exe<\/em>. But we don't know the reason that caused Microsoft's today withdrawal of both updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft has pulled yesterday the two March 2017 updates KB2952664 for Windows 7 SP1 and KB2976978 for Windows 8.1 and its corresponding Server versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[467,468,195,17,23],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-windows","tag-kb2952664","tag-kb2976978","tag-update","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}