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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
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Anonymous wrote: As you may recall, Microsoft has delivered KB3035583 as a 'recommended update' to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. What this update does is install GWX ("Get Windows 10"), a program which diagnoses the system to see if it is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10, and if so, asks the user if they would like to upgrade (though recently, the option to decline has been removed). Some users have gotten around this by editing Windows Registry values for "AllowOSUpgrade", "DisableOSUpgrade", "DisableGWX", and "ReservationsAllowed" in order to disable the prompt altogether. This advice was endorsed by Microsoft on their support forums. According to a report by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the newest version of the KB3035583 update includes a background process which scans the system's Windows Registry twice a day to see if the values for the four aforementioned registry inputs were manually edited to disable the upgrade prompt. If they were, the process will alter the values, silently re-download the Windows 10 installation files (about 6 GB in total), and prompt the user to upgrade. http://www.infoworld.com/article/302...hing-get-windo ws-10-nagware-isnt-as-easy-as-you-think.html Note: infoworld.com takes forever to load, if it loads at all. Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day
"Anonymous" wrote in message ... In article k Anonymous wrote: As you may recall, Microsoft has delivered KB3035583 as a 'recommended update' to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. What this update does is install GWX ("Get Windows 10"), a program which diagnoses the system to see if it is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10, and if so, asks the user if they would like to upgrade (though recently, the option to decline has been removed). Some users have gotten around this by editing Windows Registry values for "AllowOSUpgrade", "DisableOSUpgrade", "DisableGWX", and "ReservationsAllowed" in order to disable the prompt altogether. This advice was endorsed by Microsoft on their support forums. According to a report by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the newest version of the KB3035583 update includes a background process which scans the system's Windows Registry twice a day to see if the values for the four aforementioned registry inputs were manually edited to disable the upgrade prompt. If they were, the process will alter the values, silently re-download the Windows 10 installation files (about 6 GB in total), and prompt the user to upgrade. http://www.infoworld.com/article/302...hing-get-windo ws-10-nagware-isnt-as-easy-as-you-think.html Note: infoworld.com takes forever to load, if it loads at all. Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. I think only temporarily. I sut it off in my win 7 and both 8.1's by deleting some crap somewhere, but it came back in less than a week. A real PITA. |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
Jake wrote:
"Anonymous" wrote in message ... In article k Anonymous wrote: As you may recall, Microsoft has delivered KB3035583 as a 'recommended update' to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. What this update does is install GWX ("Get Windows 10"), a program which diagnoses the system to see if it is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10, and if so, asks the user if they would like to upgrade (though recently, the option to decline has been removed). Some users have gotten around this by editing Windows Registry values for "AllowOSUpgrade", "DisableOSUpgrade", "DisableGWX", and "ReservationsAllowed" in order to disable the prompt altogether. This advice was endorsed by Microsoft on their support forums. According to a report by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the newest version of the KB3035583 update includes a background process which scans the system's Windows Registry twice a day to see if the values for the four aforementioned registry inputs were manually edited to disable the upgrade prompt. If they were, the process will alter the values, silently re-download the Windows 10 installation files (about 6 GB in total), and prompt the user to upgrade. http://www.infoworld.com/article/302...hing-get-windo ws-10-nagware-isnt-as-easy-as-you-think.html Note: infoworld.com takes forever to load, if it loads at all. Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. I think only temporarily. I sut it off in my win 7 and both 8.1's by deleting some crap somewhere, but it came back in less than a week. A real PITA. And if you use this, what happens ? http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/201...ly-remove.html You use that, if you've left Windows Update on Auto, and you've been receiving a steady stream of "surprises" from Microsoft. You have to keep that program up to date, if you expect to deal with new twists as time passes. "GWX - The gift that keeps on giving" Paul |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
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Paul wrote: Jake wrote: "Anonymous" wrote in message ... In article k Anonymous wrote: As you may recall, Microsoft has delivered KB3035583 as a 'recommended update' to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. What this update does is install GWX ("Get Windows 10"), a program which diagnoses the system to see if it is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10, and if so, asks the user if they would like to upgrade (though recently, the option to decline has been removed). Some users have gotten around this by editing Windows Registry values for "AllowOSUpgrade", "DisableOSUpgrade", "DisableGWX", and "ReservationsAllowed" in order to disable the prompt altogether. This advice was endorsed by Microsoft on their support forums. According to a report by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the newest version of the KB3035583 update includes a background process which scans the system's Windows Registry twice a day to see if the values for the four aforementioned registry inputs were manually edited to disable the upgrade prompt. If they were, the process will alter the values, silently re-download the Windows 10 installation files (about 6 GB in total), and prompt the user to upgrade. http://www.infoworld.com/article/302...hing-get-windo ws-10-nagware-isnt-as-easy-as-you-think.html Note: infoworld.com takes forever to load, if it loads at all. Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. I think only temporarily. I sut it off in my win 7 and both 8.1's by deleting some crap somewhere, but it came back in less than a week. A real PITA. And if you use this, what happens ? http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/201...ly-remove.html You use that, if you've left Windows Update on Auto, and you've been receiving a steady stream of "surprises" from Microsoft. You have to keep that program up to date, if you expect to deal with new twists as time passes. "GWX - The gift that keeps on giving" Paul So, free Windows is just like Linux now. A lot of code and promising crap that never gets fixed or developed further. |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
Fritz Wuehler wrote:
So, free Windows is just like Linux now. A lot of code and promising crap that never gets fixed or developed further. Most of the time, we end up not understanding why they're changing things. If the objective was to in an obvious way, "make Win10 better and better", I might have a more positive attitude to the rolling release idea and what they're actually doing to it. For example, the desktop version uses Windows Update. The latest builds added Update Orchestrator, which sits above Windows Update, a piece of software used on the Enterprise edition. Do consumers need Update Orchestrator ? No. Did the policies in the OS change, because of the presence of Update Orchestrator ? Yes. Is the overall change an improvement for consumers ? No. The desktop version is being used as a testbed, and for ideas that may have no positive impact on the consumer version itself. And that's not really the intention of the rolling release idea. It's an abuse of rolling release. Paul |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:06:39 -0000, Paul wrote:
Fritz Wuehler wrote: So, free Windows is just like Linux now. A lot of code and promising crap that never gets fixed or developed further. Most of the time, we end up not understanding why they're changing things. If the objective was to in an obvious way, "make Win10 better and better", I might have a more positive attitude to the rolling release idea and what they're actually doing to it. For example, the desktop version uses Windows Update. The latest builds added Update Orchestrator, which sits above Windows Update, a piece of software used on the Enterprise edition. Do consumers need Update Orchestrator ? No. Did the policies in the OS change, because of the presence of Update Orchestrator ? Yes. Is the overall change an improvement for consumers ? No. The desktop version is being used as a testbed, and for ideas that may have no positive impact on the consumer version itself. And that's not really the intention of the rolling release idea. It's an abuse of rolling release. Yawn..... it works for me, it's the nicest OS I've ever used. And it's not gone wrong once. -- Debugger: a tool to remove evidence of rear entry. |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
On 16/01/2016 01:57, Jake wrote:
I think only temporarily. I sut it off in my win 7 and both 8.1's by deleting some crap somewhere, but it came back in less than a week. But you have been told many times that you are a very stupid person with limited vocabulary apart from severely demented. -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day
"Good Guy" wrote in message ... On 16/01/2016 01:57, Jake wrote: I think only temporarily. I sut it off in my win 7 and both 8.1's by deleting some crap somewhere, but it came back in less than a week. But you have been told many times that you are a very stupid person with limited vocabulary apart from severely demented. -- This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again. This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology. You call people stupid with limited vocabulary and your so smart, then we would like to know what the **** is sut? |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 UsersTwice a Day
On 16/01/2016 01:46, Anonymous wrote:
Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. Since when did stupid people had brains? -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ |
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'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day
Good Guy wrote:
Anonymous wrote: Old news. If you have any brains at all you can turn it off. Since when did stupid people had brains? I love it when a troll does that... |
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