Force W7 -> W10 upgrades. Not cool MS, not cool.

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In before the W10 apologists. :)

Lots of unhappy people popping up all over the web saying the same, forced into a W10 upgrade and met with a hail of "there's nothing wrong with W10" responses. Not helpful.

Not the point, it's a forced upgrade without user intervention. That's outrageous. What about driver and hardware incompatibilities? What about people being in the middle of doing something? Or what about the people who are quite happy with W7 and the fact it's in extended life support for another 4 years.

Then you really have to start wondering why MS have decided to force the implementation in the way they have. I can understand them not wanting another Windows XP scenario where everyone is happy with what they've got but there really are better ways of going about it than just forcing it on people.

People bemoan Apple for their walled garden and secrecy, you just have to look at MS over the last few months to see they're as bad if not worse with their MS Store push, gaming monopolisation and now forcing W10 on people.

I'm not about to make the leap across to Linux or even OSX for my gaming needs but I'm going to make damn sure I'm not forced to change my setup when I'm not ready to.
 
Hi randal is there a specific windows update KB that can be blocked to ensure that the pc is not forced to w10 (i run w7 myself and havent seen any windows folders with stealth w10 waiting :confused: though in saying that i opted out of the free 10 upgrade)


edit: is it this one? KB3035583

I've had that one and another who's id escapes me, but that one has forcibly installed itself several times despite being ignored. It installs the GWX front end, which now just crashes on mine every few hours. "GWX has stopped responding", suits me fine. Far as I can see the machine thinks it's installed, but it won't run. Win?

Side note on this, the schedules setup in Task Scheduler that govern when this runs are locked down with some pretty tight permissions so you can't even stop it. Of course it's scheduled to run at just about every given opportunity, when you unlock your screen, when you resume, when you login etc.

Get a copy of GWX Control Panel and see the end of Windows10 nagging.

Didn't know such a thing existed, may take a look. Ta.
 
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