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Just turned PC on and it's just started upgrading. Can I stop it? I take it I can't turn the PC off?
Sorry need a quick answer. Can i stop win10 upgrade ?
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Why the hell as microsoft just took it upon itself to upgrade.
That's what they stated they would do with Win 10, it makes sure little 'issues' are fixed in most cases before users find the problem.
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Alright cheers folks. I'll have to research win10 see how people are finding it. I was completely happy with win7 so I'll give it a try for a few days and roll back if no likey.
Can it be upgraded again if you roll back does anyone know?
Can it be upgraded again if you roll back does anyone know?
Yep.
Invisible upgrades to an existing Win10 installation is one thing, but to upgrade a Win7 install to Win10 without the user's explicit agreement is very, very cheeky. Who's PC do they think it is anyway? Theirs?
It automatically closed everything I had running and went to "downloading updates for windows 10" and then proceeded to upgrade to windows 10. What the hell this is beyond cheeky, how the do they get away with this ********.
It isn't invisible, it is downloaded then you get asked to confirm.
"What’s more, the installer for Windows 10 will start once it has been downloading, presenting users with a popup. Users will be able to decline the update, once the installer has started, or prevent the update from being downloaded by manually blocking it in Windows update."
Andi.
I had a laptop that auto updated to W10, i rolled back to W7 and as soon as it was on the desktop the first thing it did was to say that it will auto update back to 10 in 8 hours and no way to stop it so i had to then disable the update and remove everything as i didnt want windows 10 on the laptop.
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Most of my machines are now running Windows 10 (almost exclusively without issue, and very happy with Win10). My HTPC is still running Windows 7 as Microsoft dropped support for Windows Media Centre in 10, but I've NEVER selected on it to sign up or be interested in an upgrade to Windows 10, and it's signed in with a local account only. Kind of curious if I will end up "hit" with an enforced upgrade, or if this is only happening to people who've previously expressed an interest in upgrading to Windows 10 at some point. Time will tell, I guess. 
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That's what was a shock today. Not once have I accepted anything to say I wanted win10. I got pop ups about it but always just closed the window.
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In fairness, our whole office now has W10 and myself with both PC and Laptop have W10 and it's actually really good.
Looks good, and nice and smooth and quick
Looks good, and nice and smooth and quick
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Is it? Where's all the programs gone on the Windows menu and what's all them crap app things. Not liking so far.
Seen a few systems where it just starts installing of its own accord - was talking to my dad once and it started doing it to his PC right before our eyes without once prompting.
Very very wrong IMO - one thing to have a notification popup but to assume even if a user has automatic updates enabled in whatever OS they were originally on that they want to download it let alone install it without confirmation is just unacceptable.
EDIT: Case in point my dad actually was planning on going to 10 at some point on his desktop but he'd been hanging off waiting for some of the software he uses as a day to day thing to update to support 10 (which didn't work on 10 without a specific update for the OS).
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I now know of three unrelated users who have had their machines "choose" to upgrade to Windows 10. I suspect that it has something to do with the unhelpful automatic, unattended Windows Update at 03:00 feature.