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If you go into Control Panel, Programs and Features, you can retroactively uninstall updates. It's in the other section of that application.

At least for 7, I never used 8 enough to give you useful info there.

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It turns out that KB2952664 is pretty hard to uninstall. I tried several times to uninstall it from the control panel on Windows 7, and each time it was still present afterwards. It turns out this update has many versions, each of which need to be uninstalled separately:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable...

My machine had 27 different packages/versions for this update!

Good grief, I have 23 versions installed on my system. None of which show up in 'installed updates' in Windows Update. And when I try to remove them with dism I get an access denied error.

A cynical person would think MS is deviously trying to hide them and prevent an end user from opting out from their data collection scheme.

Although you are trying to be helpful, you did not answer the question that I asked. Retroactively uninstall is not my definition of decline to install.

Also, it's not clear which KB snuck it onto my Win8.1.

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