Windows 10 Article

What happens if I dont get any such popup?
I have not seen one yet.
I have been on 7 for over 2 years.

Will Renkel
wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/win...tes,31802.html


Ken1943

Paul wrote on 05/16/2016 4:31 AM:
Will Renkel wrote:
What happens if I dont get any such popup?
I have not seen one yet.
I have been on 7 for over 2 years.

The hint is in the picture.

http://media.bestofmicro.com/R/J/581...rade_w_600.png


It says "Get Windows 10" at the top, which suggests
GWX.exe or GWXui.exe was responsible for the popup.
Those come in via update '583. That update has been
issued multiple times, so even if it installed
November 2015, a newer version could have installed
on your computer last week. People who try to "hide" that
update, every time the version number changes, the thing
comes back. It's very persistent. Like a door-to-door
brush salesman.

There is a "partner" to that update, one that equips
the computer with a hidden "Upgrade Advisor". The Advisor
can evaluate the materials on the computer and determine
whether the computer can run Windows 10. When the opportunity
first came out, some computers were "blocked" because
there was no video driver, and perhaps no possibility
of a video driver ever appearing. Without a video driver,
the screen will be stuck at 1024x768, which makes it very
difficult to work in front of it. In other cases, there was
a delay getting a working driver for the machines in question,
and I'm not aware of anyone in that state, actually getting
served their copy without a little DIY work.

If you installed this and used it, you may already have
set some registry entries to prevent upgrading. In addition,
maybe this thing can also remove or defeat the two GWX
executables ? And there have also been cases, where
people felt they should have seen an icon, and it never
arrives. You would make sure the two updates that
support this stuff, were installed, and your Windows Update
history does not indicate a serious, long-standing, plumbing
problem. Maybe no update has come into your computer at all
since Aug.2015 last year, and that might explain it. If you
see a lot of "Pending" and "Failed" in the Windows Update history
side-bar item, with no followup installs that worked, your
plumbing could be jammed up.

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


If you're that excited at the prospect, just download the
DVD and install it. I did an install yesterday using
the downloaded DVD, and it now has a "I don't have a
license key" button, so you don't even have to solve
the licensing issue right away.

*******

At the very least, back up your C: drive to an external
storage device. I use Macrium Reflect Free for this, but
even the built-in Windows Backup in Windows 7 is better
than nothing. If anything bad happens in the middle of the
upgrade, you're ready.

I had a dual-boot install go nuts, and the installer
decided that very near the end of the install, it would
reverse engines and back out. As that threatened to take
hours and hours to do, and I wasn't in a mood for that
kind of treatment, I just shot off the power and
restored from backup. That's faster than watching
the installer kinda sorta revert.

Paul
I've yet to see anyone identify that 'pic' as 3035583 related when Win10
was not previously reserved/accepted.

Could very well be like the last conspiracy theory where a Win10 option
showed up in IE11, when in fact it was just an ad offered on the Msn.com
page or one of the related MSn sponsored media sites/portals.



--
...winston
msft mvp windows experience

.. . .winston wrote:


last conspiracy theory

No question, everyone here is delusional.

Paul