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Just noticed this as doing the usual post tuesday round of upgrades - MS had pre-selected Windows 10 Upgrade and was about to download and presumably install it. This despite it being in the optional windows updates section, and my never having agreed to install it or reserve it.
So watch out!
just block/uninstall some of the previous updates related to windows update client. forgot which ones. and set autoupdate to autod/l but manual updates.
There's the option to "treat recommend updates as critical" or something like that, all it means is they can force an install of what they want (my machine did this) it's a tick box you can deselect I believe.
On this PC I have Win Update set to group recommended updates with optional ones, and as such I haven't even seen the upgrade notification yet.
Cheers for the heads up though, I'll watch for it on systems with the notification.
First uninstall and then hide the following updates...
Windows 8: KB3035583 and KB2976978
Windows 7: KB3035583, KB2952664, and KB3021917
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Signs of Microsoft getting a bit desperate in pushing Windows 10. Very annoying though as I had a booting difficulty with my machine. If I do get windows 10 then it will be my choice and not theirs.
Cheers for this information, since I'm really not interested in getting Windows 10 whatsoever. I'm quite happy sticking with Windows 7, and wouldn't want to ruin compatibility with older games/applications for something that would give me no real benefit at all.
Pretty sure I have always made certain this was not ticked. I try to be quite mindful of what my computer/services will/will not do, hence why I spotted this. Other recommended updates weren't ticked, just this one (and it was listed under 'optional' rather than recommended or critical.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob_B
But at the same time, I want to keep my windows 10 upgrade options open :p The pop ups are getting quite annoying so I might hide the updates as suggested on this thread though, thanks - you can always see previously hidden I think anyway.
um... for win 7. in winupdate settings
important updates:
change it to "d/l updates but let me choose whether to install them" i suppose, you can even set it to "check for updates but let me choose whether to d/l and install them"
recommended updates:
"give me recommended updates the same way i receive important updates"... i ticked that..
nothing is installed without my say so.
the thing about picking which updates to install isn't whether it says recommended/important or whatever... look at the synopsis.. if it says "security update for win 7, blah", then i think you can install those without really thinking about it. it's the ones that says "update for win 7 blah" that you have to look up. if the info page on ms says something about windows update client and it's from this year, chances are you should hide it just in case. and you have to keep doing it from time to time because ms keeps changing something that flip those "winupdate client" updates between important and optional and thus un-hiding them.
this might help for finding/uninstalling the win10 spam.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/17/how...ndows-7-and-8/