Paul on Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:47:33 -0500 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
GS wrote:

The free upgrade to Win10 offer has expired! None of the systems I've
put Win7Pro on have had this "done to" them. (That includes the new
Win10 machines I've replaced the OS on!)

Note that Windows Update has been disabled so only apps with their own
built-in update scheme update as configured, or manually on demand.

A Win7 machine would not "auto-upgrade" to Windows 10 today.

But if you download a Win10 DVD and install it manually
while Windows 7 is running, you just might (still) get
free Windows 10. It didn't actually stop working a year
or so ago, and installing Win10 over Win7 has worked
since then.

But the more aggressive "auto-upgrade" behavior has stopped.

Good.

I am not overly thrilled with the Windows 7 interface, and even
less so with what I see in Win 8 or 10.

I have my Win7Pro UI configured as close to my old XP Pro UI as possible. In
turn, I config W8.1 and W10 UIs the same way. While this works really well for
me, I do get somewhat disoriented when working on other peoples systems that
have out-of-the-box UIs!g

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Garry

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