Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide

The Register ^ | Jan 8, 2016 | Iain Thomson

[dayglored]

Good advice.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 upgrade blocker info from Redmond... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[doorgunner69]

Strange, never got a single update notification in almost two years of running Win7.

No security problems either, so keeping MS out of my computer seems to be a good thing.

[laplata]

Thanks for this post, dayglored.

[sparklite2]

If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.
Ten is a good operating system.

[editor-surveyor]

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This is definitely a keeper.

I just bought some extra win 7 licenses.

[dayglored]

> Ten is a good operating system.

I believe it will get there.

At present, it's got some show-stopping incompatibilities with my existing network resources, so I can't deploy it to my users yet. And there is that nagging uncertainty about all the private "telemetry", since we do confidential work for our clients. But it'll get there.

In the meantime, nothing wrong with posting information for the folks who want to run 7 and 8.1 in peace.

[editor-surveyor]

10 is a deep snoop system.

[SeeSharp]

None of this is necessary. The pop-up that keeps prompting you to upgrade gets installed by update KB3035583. Just uninstall and disable that particular update and you won’t be pestered to upgrade again.

[umgud]

Ok, I’ve got Win 10 on my pc at work and at home. Have had similar problems on both machines. I have an IT guy at work to work out the bugs....... he’s gone bald pulling his hair and hasn’t solved all bugs. At home I finally called MS tech support in India. She remotely tried to solve my problems and got frustrated..... then went to google! Not long after she fixed my problems. Thought that was real funny.

Anyway, Win 10 started out pretty good, but showing bugs now.

[Pontiac]

for later

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for this.

[dayglored]

> None of this is necessary.

Depends on what you're running, and what you're running it on. Some folks don't get bothered at all, others get hounded. The fixes for each may differ.

I'm glad it was simple for you. :-)

[gunsequalfreedom]

Since I'm running Win 3.1 is that why I'm not getting the pop ups?

I have been thinking of upgrading but am worried I will lose the coffee cup holder function.

[Kirkwood]

Win10 is actually a poor OS. It left out a lot of usability that Win7 has built into it. For example, it doesn’t allow Virtual XP to run.

[CyberAnt]

Great. I just checked Windows Update, and Win10 update is still sitting there.

Guess I’ll download the manual to get it off my computer.

Otherwise .. what’s going to happen. When it’s no longer a free upgrade, will the update disappear ..??? Or what ..??

[dayglored]

> When it's no longer a free upgrade, will the update disappear ..??? Or what ..??

Hell, no! I expect the pressure to go UP, not down. When it's no longer free, they'll be making money from license key sales!

You think it's bad now? HA!

[dayglored]

> Win10 is actually a poor OS. It left out a lot of usability that Win7 has built into it. For example, it doesn't allow Virtual XP to run.

I'm pretty sure you're serious (not being sarcastic), so let me play straight for you... Of COURSE they dropped Virtual XP support in 10. The last thing in the world they want is any more instances of XP running anywhere.

[dayglored]

> I have been thinking of upgrading but am worried I will lose the coffee cup holder function.

No worries! A USB flash drive, sticking out of the front USB slot, is just big enough to hold two NO-DOZ tablets.

Faster than coffee...

[the_daug]

I did an uninstall of update KB3035583. Then I hid the update so auto update would not install it again. No more nagging.