Warning windows 10 automaticly installs!!!

Well, was it better or worse???

To get the upgrade it had to be accepted at some point. Or at least that was the way it worked on our win 7 and win 8.1 machines.

10 does not automatically install. sorry you click agreed at some point.

Since you clicked on something and accepted it...why not use if for awhile, poke around and learn it some. Do some tweaking to suit. I think you will like it. It's a very stable operating system.

TNGW1500SE wrote:
One of my PC's Automatically installed Windows 10. If you don't want this to happen to you, click the start button and type "windows update" go into the settings and turn automatic updates off. If it does happen to you and you want 7 back, click the start button and then type "restore". It can be brought back to 7 but you may have to reinstall some programs.

MS wasn't "happy" with the W10 free "upgrades" acceptance so they changed how the upgrade to W10 update works from "optional" to IMPORTANT..

Before the change you would avoid it by only accepting IMPORTANT updates..

But now you must either completely disable automatic updates OR at least set it to CHECK for updates ONLY and select and READ EACH UPDATE..

Blindly accepting all automatic updates is a fool hardy thing to do in the first place..

Do like the smart folks do, disable then manually go to MS Update website and get only the IMPORTANT updates.

To MS's credit, they DID put out a bulletin alerting folks that this was changing.. So it shouldn't really be much of a surprise.

LittleBill wrote:
10 does not automatically install. sorry you click agreed at some point.

Actually it "kind of" does in a round about way..

Since WS has changed the priority from "optional" to "important" it WILL automatically DOWNLOAD the entire Win10 OS onto your PCs HD..

Then it SHOULD nag you to death until you click the box to install.. However, it IS possible that MS has omitted the nag step and is force feeding every PC they can..

Many people also fail to read everything they click BEFORE they click (I have a DD that is click happy which drives me crazy)..

Johno02 wrote:
Well, was it better or worse???

Depends..

If you don't mind MS data mining your own personal PC and using that info for their own profit AND allowing MS to use YOUR personal PC hardware and YOUR own Internet connection YOU paid for as part of their updates data sharing (AKA ZOMBIE PC) in order to deliver their own "malware" called Win10 to other unsuspecting people then it is OK..

Not to mention by accepting W10 you are agreeing to allow MS to forcefully update YOUR PC with often half baked untested updates which at any time may result in YOUR PC turning into a doorstop..

With Win10, the PC is no longer YOURS to control..

My 7 to 10 upgrade is still in my Optional upgrade list.

Actually I read an interview several months ago where either the head of MS Marketing or PR admitted they actually did force some WIN 10 upgrades on people's PCs without their permission or clicking on anything, but they stopped that, for now anyways.

Bill

I know of three Windows update files that are related to the nagging about "upgrading" to Win 10. They are KB3021917, KB3035583 and KB3123862. I believe that the last one is related to the "behind the scenes" automatic downloading of Win 10. There may be others, but by uninstalling and hiding these three I do not get any messages on my Win 7 machine to install Win 10.

I made a post back in December describing a method to uninstall and hide these updates so they won't install again. When I checked Windows Update before writing this post, I found that KB3035583 had again appeared as a Recommended update. I hid it again so it wouldn't install when I do other updates.

As others have said, the Windows Update settings need to be set to "Check for updates but let me decide whether to download and install them." Don't choose "Install updates automatically."

My December post.

As I said in that post, Microsoft really, really wants everyone on Win 10. Just my opinion, but I think Microsoft's new business model is to use Win 10 to collect user data and sell it to advertisers as a new source of income. Why else would they want everyone to have an "Advertising ID?" Google and others have been doing this for years and IMO Microsoft wants a piece of the action too.

BTW, I have a Win 7 desktop and a new laptop that came with Win 10. I turned off Cortana and turned off the other privacy issues in settings and find Win 10 to be OK. I still prefer Win 7 as it just looks better on the screen.