Windows 10 icon
I now have a small "windows" icon on my task bar telling me to reserve my copy of win 10. Does anyone know how to get rid of the damn icon short of accepting their download of the program? It is annoy...
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strollin wrote:Yup, ... true enough,thestoloffs wrote:
Go to Control Panel/Notification Area Icons. Find the Windows box icon (listed under the program name GWX - Get Windows 10), and set it to either "Only show notifications" or "Hide icon and notifications".
That's the first thing I tried as well. Unfortunately, when you reboot, the notification is turned back on.
The easiest thing I've found to do if you don't want to see the icon or the notification is to rename the "C:\Windows\System32\GWX" folder. I renamed mine to "C:\Windows\System32\GWX_gwx" and no longer get the icon or notifications.
You can uninstall the update that installed the notifier app but then you also need to remember to hide that update or it will simply get reinstalled.
I rebooted and there the Icon was again even though I had hidden it.
So, I uninstalled the update (that worked), ... after I rebooted I ran a new search for updates and sure enough, there was the update again waiting to be installed. I have the update hidden now so maybe this issue will stay suppressed for me. I DID NOT install it!!
The fooler is the update is listed as "Important" not "Optional". That alone is enough for most to just do it without question even though there's nothing there but a clever scheme to install another operating system.
