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Posted on 3/14/2016, 9:17:19 PM by dayglored
As Microsoft auto-upgrades more PCs to Windows 10, some users are complaining that they weren’t adequately notified.
Reports of unwanted Windows 10 upgrades have been circulating for the past few days on Reddit and Twitter, after the last Patch Tuesday. These users say they never approved or initiated the upgrade, and were dragged away from their Windows 7 (or perhaps Windows 8) installs anyway.
This is all part of Microsoft’s plan, of course. Last October, the company announced that it would reclassify Windows 10 as a “Recommended” update from older versions starting in early 2016, at which point many more users would get the upgrade without explicit permission. That reclassification began on February 1, and auto-upgrades have been rolling out ever since. If complaints are reaching a higher volume now, perhaps it’s because the rollout is getting more aggressive.
Here’s what the Recommended update looks like, according to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley:
First, users will receive a notification saying their PCs are scheduled to receive Windows 10 in the next three or four days. Users can click a small link to cancel or postpone the update, but simply closing the window will cause the notification to appear again one hour before the scheduled update time. If users don’t cancel or postpone within that timeframe, the update will begin automatically.At that point, the only way to back out of the Windows 10 update is to “Decline” the End User License Agreement that appears during the installation. This will cause the system to roll back to the previous Windows version (though this is a somewhat time-consuming process).
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If they do this to me, then I’m gone. I love Windows 7 Pro.
For those who would just as soon stay with Windows 7 -- BEWARE!
Hope that's good enough.
Probably not, as I read this article and others like it.
Must.
Learn.
Linux.
Abort, Re-Fry or Flail?
I remember Windows 1.0.
And 10 MB drives
And floppies by the pile full.
Thanks for the heads up.
It kind of sounds to me like users do not know that they can uncheck the upgrade to Windows 10 when doing other upgrades, updates, patches, etc. ;-)
Uh, no way.
BTW, I run a Mac running 10.8 with Windows 7 Pro running via Parallels. I turned off Windows updates long ago — easy in Windows 7, much harder in Windows 8.1.
Research it online.
Good luck!
Not me. Tried the free conversion and it messed up my computer big Tim, eg, erasing my CD drive from my computer. Converted back and won’t change. W-10 has all kinds of stuff I don’t need or want.
Not the first time MS has done this kind of unauthorized upgrade.
One day I noticed some programs would not work. They were based on IE9. I got to checking and found my IE9 was now IE10. I had Windows7 updates turned to ‘notify me, do not auto-update’.
I was able to uninstall IE10, and it reverted to IE9.
I turned off Windows updates completely.
Even so, I still occasionally run into weird activity on my computer and find that MS had recently installed a ‘critical upgrade’. I have to run a system restore to get my machine back to normal.
Windows 10 went from “Recommended” to “Mandated”.
Yeah, I went with a nice utility that pretty much throws the finger at Win10 upgrades, forced or not. GWX I think it’s called.
For business (enterprise) users, that's true.
But for everyday home and small business users, this forced upgrade is a steamroller in spite of the settings.
And let's face it, most Windows users are sadly clueless about such system settings. Seriously. Hate it say it, but most consumer computer users (Windows, Mac) are pretty much at sea when it comes to managing their own systems. They take the defaults and hope for the best.
They are the vast majority. Hence, these warnings.
How can this be? All I ever see is a little balloon that says something about updates that I always ignore............
Uh, yeah, that's the one, Laz.
[shakes head and mutters]
:-)
I get these messages daily... update to windows 10 and frankly, I am ready to go buy a MAC
No, is is not.
I keep hoping one of the anti-virus companies treats this automatic, no-permission upgrade as a virus with the proper fix...
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