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Dec 29, 2015Explorer
Trackrig wrote:
During early Dec you could install third party software on your PC that stopped 10 from loading. MS has blocked it. Once a day I now get a pop-up from MS asking me if I want to install 10 now, or just download it now and install later. The only way you can get rid of the pop-up is click the white X in the upper right corner. There is no way to tell it not to bother you again. Because it doesn't come in as mail, you can't use Google spam filters on it. If anyone knows how to permanently stop 10 from loading, I'd like to hear about it.
Bill
I know of two Windows updates that are related to the "offer" to update to Windows 10. I uninstalled these updates on my Win 7 desktop and no longer have the Win 10 upgrade icon on the right side of the task bar. I get no popups from Microsoft regarding Win 10.
The offending Windows updates are KB3035583 and KB3021917.
Here's how I uninstalled them.
Go to Control Panel and click on Windows Update.
Click on Change Settings and make sure that you have selected "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Do not check "Install updates automatically" as this setting will just reinstall the two updates you want to get rid of.
Click OK to go back to the previous page and click on View Update History.
Near the top of the page, click on Installed Updates.
In the long list of installed updates, scroll down and find each of the two update numbers. Right click on each and uninstall them.
The next time you restart, the Win 10 icon should no longer be in the task bar and (hopefully) the Win 10 popups will disappear as well.
One final necessary step.
Run Windows update again. Microsoft really, really wants you to update to Win 10, so the offending updates you just uninstalled will again appear in the list of Important updates. To keep from accidentally installing them again, right click on each of them and select "Hide Update". This removes the offending updates from the list of updates to be installed.
Be advised - Microsoft really, really wants you to upgrade to Win 10. When preparing this post, I found that KB3035583 was again in my list of updates to be installed, even though I had hidden it weeks ago. I hid it again.
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