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az99
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Dec 06, 2015

Win 10 Forced Updates

I am extremely disappointed that Win 10 is forcing updates on you. I have 2 new computers with Win 10 giving the update problem.
I was setting up a new desktop for my 90 year old mother. It updated 2 times in 2 days with popup screens for schedule download and install. This is not acceptable for a 90 yr. old to deal with. I do the updates either remotely or when I am there.
I called Microsoft tech and told them of the problem. They remotely went into the computer and shut down the auto updates. I now can go in and click the CHECK FOR UPDATES box. I had them change my laptop also.

The tech said they are continually blasted about this and hope a fix is coming.

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  • Every time I turned on my last laptop, it wanted to force install Windows 10. I would decline. Every time I went to shut down the computer, it wanted to force install Windows 10. This went on for about 2 weeks, when all of a sudden, the computer would not come up at all ... blue screen of death.

    After several days of trying to it to work again, I finally did a complete system restore, back to factory install. And you guessed it, after getting the thing to work correct again, next day ... wanted to do the forced install. Nope!

    Next time I turned it on .... blue screen of death again.

    I did another factory install. Next day, blue screen of death.

    I swear Microsoft installed stealth code to force the update or shut down the machine if the user refused to update to Windows 10. It's a conspiracy I tell you!

    Well, I could not save the laptop without putting more money into a fix than the cost of a new laptop. So, considering the hard drive had been reformated about 6 times trying to fix this, I ended up just throwing out the laptop and was forced to get a new laptop. You guess it! It came with Windows 10.

    Unbelievable though, I had to do a system restor on the new one also after the frist 24 hours. But after that, I've not had any more problems. It's now working nice. It's a conspiracy, I say, it's a conspiracy!

    I have a whole stack of old laptops that have older operating systems on them, nothing wrong with the computer itself, just Microsoft forcing garbage that's toasted them. Conspiracy! yes it is!
  • My mother in law is 94. All she does is email and basic web surfing. Two years ago we got her an iPad. Since then no more tech calls.
    Best money ever spent.
  • That's always been an option in previous versions of windows. So times a little hard to locate.
  • When I upped to windows 10....I searched online and found out how to stop auto updates.