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"Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?



 
 
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Old November 10th 15, 11:54 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default "Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?

I had disabled Windows Update service and Background Intelligent
Transfer Service, but still wound up with this scary "Get Windows 10"
icon on the system's TaskBar.

This is on a box that I am trying to get working with DriveBender as a
backup for my NAS box and I *really* do not need any more complications
right now - and I am afraid that somehow I will fat-finger that icon and
bring the house down.

So.... how to drive a stake through it's little black heart ?
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Old November 11th 15, 12:17 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul
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Default "Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
I had disabled Windows Update service and Background Intelligent
Transfer Service, but still wound up with this scary "Get Windows 10"
icon on the system's TaskBar.

This is on a box that I am trying to get working with DriveBender as a
backup for my NAS box and I *really* do not need any more complications
right now - and I am afraid that somehow I will fat-finger that icon and
bring the house down.

So.... how to drive a stake through it's little black heart ?


You could try a program like this...

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/201...ly-remove.html

http://ultimateoutsider.com/download...trol_panel.exe

Or, you could merge in a .reg file with a few stoppers in it.
You can see in this example, there is one called "DisableGWX"
just for the icon and friends.

******* DisableGWX.reg *******
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Created by Vishal Gupta for AskVG.com

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
"AllowOSUpgrade"=dword:00000000
"ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000
******* end DisableGWX.reg *******

Paul
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Old November 11th 15, 01:07 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default "Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:18 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

I had disabled Windows Update service and Background Intelligent
Transfer Service, but still wound up with this scary "Get Windows 10"
icon on the system's TaskBar.

This is on a box that I am trying to get working with DriveBender as a
backup for my NAS box and I *really* do not need any more complications
right now - and I am afraid that somehow I will fat-finger that icon and
bring the house down.

So.... how to drive a stake through it's little black heart ?


If you don't need Internet access on that box, you could disable it (by
simply removing the gateway IP) and just give it LAN access.

--

Char Jackson
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Old November 11th 15, 03:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
(PeteCresswell)
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Default "Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?

Per Char Jackson:
If you don't need Internet access on that box, you could disable it (by
simply removing the gateway IP) and just give it LAN access.


That one is down on the level where I live....

I like it.

Done....

Thanks!

--
Pete Cresswell
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Old November 11th 15, 05:57 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default "Get Windows 10" Icon On TaskBar: How To Get Rid of It?

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:47:52 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

Per Char Jackson:
If you don't need Internet access on that box, you could disable it (by
simply removing the gateway IP) and just give it LAN access.


That one is down on the level where I live....

I like it.

Done....

Thanks!


Nice. I have a couple of boxes here that need LAN access, but have no
business talking to the Internet, so I made them LAN-only. I don't have to
wonder who they talk to late at night.

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Char Jackson
 




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