Comments on: Stop Windows from upgrading your computer automatically https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer TheWindowsClub covers authentic Windows 11, Windows 10 tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware. Created by Anand Khanse, MVP. Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Christopher Karst https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer#comment-52483 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 02:24:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=114303#comment-52483 If you “reserved your copy” of Windows 10, it uses that as permission to upgrade to Windows 10 without user intervention. It will not ask to agree to licence terms. It will show a 1 hour countdown then start the upgrade. If you don’t see it and stop it, you come back to “Welcome to Windows 10”
You need to cancel your reservation to halt it.
To cancel it, open the get Windows 10 pop-up, and select the 3 lines menu icon in the top left. One of the menu items will either be “reserve your copy” or “view your reservation” – if it says view, that means you did reserve. Select view, then there is an option to cancel reservation.

Or use the GWX control panel program to kill it and it’s annoying pop-ups!

]]> By: Anand Khanse https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer#comment-52001 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:29:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=114303#comment-52001 In reply to Ejaz.

You have a point actually. I drafted the title and then wrote the content. I have now instead made changes to the content so that the title reflects the content. Thanks.

]]> By: Ejaz https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer#comment-51999 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:46:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=114303#comment-51999 The title is incorrectly worded I suppose. You can’t stop Windows 10 from upgrading your computer! If you are on Windows 10, you have already been upgraded! You can try to stop Windows 7 or 8.1 from upgrading to 10 though.

It could have been …stop Microsoft from upgrading your computer.

Or …stop your computer from being upgraded to Windows 10.

]]> By: Anand Khanse https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer#comment-51996 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:33:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=114303#comment-51996 In reply to Asok Asus.

Thank you for the useful comment. :)

]]> By: Asok Asus https://www.thewindowsclub.com/stop-windows-10-from-upgrading-your-computer#comment-51994 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:35:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=114303#comment-51994 GWX Control Panel ( ultimateoutsider[.]com/downloads ) does some good things, but it hasn’t kept up with the full list of KB updates that ought to be removed beyond just KB3035583, namely:

KB3035583
KB3022345
KB3068708
KB3075249
KB3080149
KB2990214
KB3044374
KB2952664
KB2976978
KB3021917
KB3112336
KB3112343
KB3083711
KB3083710
KB3123862
KB3012973
KB3146449
KB3139929

So I’ve made some easy-to-use tools to help put an end to this coerced Windows 10 installation nonsense. They can be downloaded from here and then unzipped:

drive[.]google[.]com/file/d/0B_hrA7ihzIPlVXpRUnJyc1AyNkU/view?usp=sharing

The three included tools uninstall the Windows 10 nagware and the Microsoft “telemetry” (spyware) “updates” from Windows 7 and Windows 8.x Operating Systems if they are installed, prevent the updates from being reinstalled, and remove the Windows 10 installer folder $WINDOWS.~BT if it is present.

These tools must be run from an account with Administrative privilege, which is the case (unfortunately) for most accounts. They can also be run from a non-Administrator account by right-clicking them and then left-clicking on “Run as Administrator”.

The tools are most effective when run in the following order:

1. Run PreventW10InstallationUAC.exe to set Microsoft Update to “manual only” mode and modify a couple of registry variables that tell the OS to never allow a newer OS to be installed. This tool will run quickly unless you accept the optional request (recommended) to make a System Restore Point before the tool makes it changes, in which case the Restore Point will take a while to make.

Note that after this procedure finishes, no more Microsoft updates will be applied unless you manually request a check for updates and then decide which updates to accept, though making such decisions requires knowledge that the average user usually does not possess. However, for mature operating systems I personally believe that blindly accepting Microsoft updates at this juncture has more downsides than upsides.

(If you DO want to attempt to manually check for updates, you’ll first have to change the Windows Update setting from “Never Check for Updates” to “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them” before you click the “Check for updates” button.)

2. Run RemoveW10NagwareTool.exe to remove a set of Microsoft updates that relate to Windows 10 nagware (“white flag”) popup, Microsoft spyware, and the Windows 10 installer itself if any of them have been installed. Detection and uninstallation can take a few minutes to complete.

If any of this set of updates is found, you’ll need to reboot the system.

It might also be necessary to run this tool again after rebooting if the nagware update had previously been slated to be installed AGAIN, in which case after rebooting, you’ll STILL see the Windows 10 (“white flag”) nag. If that’s the case, just run this tool again and reboot again, and then run PreventW10InstallationUAC.exe again.

3. Finally, after you’re sure the Windows 10 nagware has been removed, run RemoveW10Folder.exe to detect and remove the Windows 10 install folder if it is found.

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