[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m not a techie, so I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.

However, my laptop runs Windows 7 and tonight I have a tray icon that says “Get Windows 10”.

Any advice? Go for it? Wait? Run away?

Thank you all in advance.

[dayglored]

> I’m not a techie, so I don’t have a clue what you are talking about. However, my laptop runs Windows 7 and tonight I have a tray icon that says “Get Windows 10”. Any advice? Go for it? Wait? Run away?

SSH Secure Shell is a way to login (username, password) and get a Command Prompt. It's for techies, and we've been waiting for this for decades. That's why the party.

The Windows 10 tray icon is how you pre=register to get the free download of the Windows 10 update when it becomes available in two months (end of July).

No relation between these two things.

[dayglored]

Oh right, you asked for advice on the Windows 10 free update.

Overall, it's a good thing, especially if you like Windows 8/8.1. And it'll be free for a year so there's actually no rush.

You can wait a few months and watch as they work the bugs out. Might not be a bad plan.

Personally I prefer Windows 7 and will stick with it for a long time. I do plan to upgrade ONE of my Win7 systems to Windows 10 and get used to it, since clearly that is where Windows is going and Microsoft WILL have their way with us, sooner or later.

So I would wait a little while, maybe Fall or Winter of this year. See how it pans out, then go for it if you like what you see.

Free advice, worth every penny you pay for it. :-)

[JoeProBono]

>However, my laptop runs Windows 7 and tonight I have a tray icon that says “Get Windows 10”.

Mine did to. I removed it.

[catnipman]

“Any advice? “

Run away. Run away fast. And never look back. Windows 10 is basically just Windows 8 with a coat of paint and a bunch of new stuff for mobile. Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever made for the PC/laptop, and it’s looking highly doubtful they’ll ever make one better.

Uninstall optional update KB3035583 to make the nag go away.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583

[MaxMax]

Search ""Microsoft patch KB3035583 removal"" for that popup. For some reason
I don't have it on my Win-7-Pro system. I even searched to see if it was available
in the optional updates and it's not there for me. No loss but I was curious about
that pop-up you and others described so I found it out.

See link here also for information about it. Two stories down from the top.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/12/free-windows-10-has-high-cost/