to nuke all of this crap on W7:
from an admin account, select Programs and Features from control panel, select View Installed Updates from the left, wait until that finishes finding all the updaets (could be a few minutes), then use the search box to search for each of:
KB3035583
KB3022345
KB3068708
KB3075249
KB3080149
find one at a time, and if found (not all will necessarily be there), right click and uninstall each one in turn.
check Change Settings on the left in Windows Update selected from Control Panel and make sure Install Updates Automatically IS NOT selected.
when all are uninstalled, reboot, which btw way can take hours sometimes after these are uninstalled (i have no idea what that BS is about; retribution by MS?).
after the reboot, go back to control panel, select Windows Update, then Check for Updates. Find all the ones you just deleted, uncheck them, right click and select Hide Update.
Also, check to see if C:\$Windows.~BT exists, which is the Windows 10 installer. If so, it can be wasting up to 12GB, so nuke it with cleanmgr started from a cmd window. once cleanmgr finishes its initial (very lengthy) scan, you should select Clean up system files, which will do another very lengthy scan, then check the box for that folder and select OK to nuke it.
So I like Windows.
But why does Microsoft think I'm going to like it any more, when I have to jump through hoops just to use it without feeling like the Goons of Redmond are combing through my underwear?
No, I don't keep my underwear on top of the computer. You know what I mean... :-)
Too much work. zeugma’s recommendation to just block the ip address is a simpler solution.
Microsoft could and should make it clear that these are Windows 10-related updates in the descriptions that appear when Windows Update runs. Instead, they make the user work to get that information, knowing that most people don't have the time or the skill or the will.
Creepy.
I'm starting to think that "free" Win 10 might be overpriced.
catnipman,
Thanks for the removal advice, I searched for the first one and it’s there. After this post I will find and remove all of them.
Question: (for you or anyone that can answer)
I do manual backups via copy and paste. When the back up is done, I check the properties of the copied and the pasted to make certain that the total files, folders and file size match.
With this property check I’ve discovered hidden files that do not copy and do not get pasted to the backup. Since they are hidden, I have no way of knowing what they are.
Under Folder Options, View, I have Show hidden files and folders checked.
I delete these hidden files by creating a new folder, copying all the files from the old and pasting in the new folder. Now this old folder should have zero files in it, but still has that one file I cannot see. So I delete that folder and the hidden file goes away.
The next time I back up, more hidden files are found. This is on a combination CAD drawing and photo editing project of mine.
Any idea what these files could be, how to make them visible? I suspect they are something someone put there to mine data. I’m running W7 64 bit.
I’m not sure I’d trust MS to actually uninstall it.
That’s ok. I have a win 7 VM that has a very specific purpose in life. I might just block all microsoft ip address blocks from my firewall and forgo additional updates.
Run the following from an administrative command prompt:
wusa /uninstall /kb:[kbNumber]
It took less than a minute to uninstall all 5 updates.
These are considered optional updates and do not install automatically unless you have automatic updates turned on to not require any user interaction.
Blocking the endpoint IP address in a hardware firewall does NOT cause an issue with the OS.
Thank you. I appreciate the info.
Thanks for that information.