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

The Register ^ | Jan 8, 2016 | Iain Thomson

[apocalypto]

for later

[Oztrich Boy]

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[gunsequalfreedom]

I tried that NODoz once. Yikes.

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> Simple question, why would anyone not want to upgrade for free to windows 10????

From Win7, why bother - Win7 is just fine and I like its interface better. Although I will say that Win10 runs just a touch faster for some things.

From Win8/8.1, if I had bought a machine with it preinstalled, I'd run, not walk, to Win10.

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> how do I uninstall it from my Surface Pro 2?

Good question, if it's even possible. I don't know if Win7 or Win8 runs on it; I doubt it.

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> I am serious. I’m not going to spend in excess of $100,000 to get a team together to write and debug all new programs to replace the ones I use to run my business. Win7 runs Virtual XP, so why not Win10?

They don't want to support it.

Virtual XP in Win7 is just a VM (virtual machine) using Microsoft's own VM hosting software.

You can get FREE third-party virtual machine hosting software from VMware (Player), Virtual Box, and others, that will run XP just dandy. I suggest you look into that.

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> I tried that NODoz once. Yikes.

You ought to see the "Energy" drinks the kids are using these days. Equivalent of 2 NODOZ in one squirt of the stuff. Poor heart pounding like a freakin jackhammer after a couple...

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For later use.

[gunsequalfreedom]

And then there is Vivarin?

http://www.drugs.com/cdi/vivarin.html

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Re: Vivarin

I don't think I've ever seen a PDR page for caffeine tablets. Wild...

[CedarDave]

Bfl...and thanks....now if I could get our desktop to just update win 7 correctly

I thought I had the same problem - Windows "Checking for updates" ran for a long problem but finally stopped and showed 35 updates, one of which was apparently a "phone home to Microsoft" update for Win 7, SP-1 regarding system performance. A second had to do with some eastern European currency symbols. I skipped both.

[Mears]

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