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I found out the hard way last Wednesday night. MS had at some point uploaded their installer for W10 on my computer during the weekly updates we all ignore. Bathroom break at 11:20PM, I noticed the computer in the spare bedroom was lit up. After the pause, the monitor had a big round circle with 20% upgrade completed. I said to myself, this better not be what I think it is. In the morning about 4AM I checked and sure enough the fuckers upgraded my PC to Windows 10. At that point I started to attempt my mail, news and this forum. Almost nothing would work and the mouse was next to useless. I was able to log back in to Facebook, one of the few things that functioned. I posted my displeasure and found out that they must have attacked Windows 7 and 8 users nationwide that night because my sister in Virginia had it happen and my friend a few miles away got it too. Luckily a co-worker suggested a "rollback" which I hesitated to do as I was afraid of everything becoming unstable and getting the blue/black screen of death again. Got home that night and started to check a few internet searches about what happened. It seems MS prepared a "recovery" option for those that didn't want or changed their mind on W10. I followed the course of action and it restored my PC back to Windows 7 just like a system restore. Everything back to the way it was and I was relieved. One thing they did indicate on the recovery was that you only get 30 days to go back or the upgrade is permanent. My friend's wife was so pissed off she unplugged their PC and took it to a computer geek who charged her $50 to reset it. MS is definitely now on the first page of my shit list. And by the way, I noticed just a day before when I'd get the W10 promotions, I was unable to close them out, as if MS was blocking my actions. Heads up up guys and gals, they will still figure out a way to spy on us without W10 even with all the tricks they have now. I hope MS likes my screen saver now. 

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I changed my settings in Windows 7 to never automatically update. Haven't seen hide nor hair of W10

 

I did that too, including the secondary setting which undermines the primary, and uninstalling the specific update by # and telling it not to upload that update. Nonetheless, I haven't gotten the nagger prompt, but the little icon for Win 10 showed up and the update was there under another #.

 

You cannot trust them at all. Interestingly, it has been proven that they are doing different stuff for different users.

 

Never10 did it better easier, and probably more permanently than following the guides to remove all known installers for that update.

It also cleared off ~6 gigs of installer files that MS had clearly uploaded to my PC in the background.

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KB3035583 is the culprit. I removed that update, but still kept receiving the MS upgrade BS. Never10 will remove all files loaded on YOUR computer that are associated with this forced upgrade. I would run the program. Steve Gibson knows what the hell he is talking about.

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My office computer switched to 10 on its own... I went through a couple videos on how to disable the spy crap.. Seems like the option to not be spied on is there, windows 7 pro was not all that different anyway, it was just a little simpler to opt out.

 

It actually fixed a nagging issue I had with a print utility, I have a printer that can kick out 25+ pages a minute and it would print one page at a time with a warm up between to keep pace with the thermal printer.. Now it just kicks out full speed and is done.

 

The "update" did screw up two older industrial printers, I had a few hours spent to fix them.. The old all in one printer, scanner, card reader is not compatible with 10 so it is likely done.

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Happened to me the other day. Clicked the X to close the update window and it went to shut my laptop down and started installing 10. I quickly turned it off right when it started and haven't had the update window since. Still on 7 too. Some complete Bullshit on MS' part!

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Happened to me the other day. Clicked the X to close the update window and it went to shut my laptop down and started installing 10. I quickly turned it off right when it started and haven't had the update window since. Still on 7 too. Some complete Bullshit on MS' part!

 

Same thing happened to me. I suspect the W10 files are still loaded on your system.

Linux?

Fine if you have no need to run Windoz apps. Then again, you could run a virtual machine in a Linux window. You would still need a full copy of an MS OS. I'm probably going back to OSX. Too much overhead running MS.

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My laptop did the auto-upgrade thing 2 months ago.  I was letting my son use it for school, so he never said anything.  He thought it was just another update, and the school's server system won't work on anything less than 10 now.  I told the wife she'd better get her crap off it after he leaves for BASIC, because it's going XUbuntu after he leaves.  I have XUbuntu on several system(basically a Ubuntu Lite), and it rocks.  Will check out the link posted, as my lappy has a few Windows-based games I do still play because WINE won't load them(age factor).

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Steve does good stuff but he is a bit late to the party on this.  Ultimate outsider posted the GWX control panel that shuts down the M$ win 10 upgrade in January of this year. I have been installing it on all the client systems and recommending it very strongly.  Program is now in it's third or fourth iteration and will monitor the system and alert you to any M$ attempt to install 10.

 

Another good tool is Spybot Anti Beacon which allows you to stop the machine from sending telemetry to Micro$oft from win 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

 

And both programs are free.

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Any W10 update prompt with a schedule date and time is MALWARE by MS. If you get one do not click on the X. That will give you the update at the time noted on the pop up. Close your computer when this happens, and restart it, that will stop it from updating.

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Well they are back. I got on the PC after work to check mail and the Windows 10 upgrade pop ups started. I disabled the auto update settings after the last go around in May and changed to the "notify me of updates", but apparently MS is going to have their way with me whether I like it or not. I think the roomie threw out all the KY jelly so I'll have to take it like a man.

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Doze 10 has been hijacking 7-8-8.1 pcs for 2 weeks now. Mac and Linux are getting a boat load of users as a result. My workhorse pc has a Linux hd and a Doze 7 hd in it. UEFI safe boot is off and I only use Doze for gaming. Hate to be that guy, but Linux is the wave of the future. I can draw and convert prints to DXF with the free Librecad that any Doze program can. Solidworks is much better, but at over $10,000, I'll do the extra work myself. Word, Excel, etc. Libre is just as good.

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I downloaded the Never10 this afternoon and feel a little more reassured I won't wake up to an unexpected change. On a sour note, Windows won't let me do a backup with my external hard drive, says the image is corrupted or something to that effect. Don't suppose the upgrade had anything to do with it. Nahhhh.

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Try Clonezilla. It is the best free imaging software I know of. You will need an external disk to store the images. I would recommend utilizing the live bootable CD option for home network nodes/servers. It looks intimidating since it is command line, but really isn't if you invest a little time. Most of the point and click OS community has never heard of it.

http://clonezilla.org/

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Try Clonezilla. It is the best free imaging software I know of. You will need an external disk to store the images. I would recommend utilizing the live bootable CD option for home network nodes/servers. It looks intimidating since it is command line, but really isn't if you invest a little time. Most of the point and click OS community has never heard of it.

http://clonezilla.org/

Once you figure out what options you need for Clonezilla, it's a simple matter to write a script (.bat file) to do the job for you.

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I swear MS has it in for me. Bathroom break at 3:39am and computer was installing 106 updates. It notified me yesterday it would install them at 3:30am 6/6/16. Just finished at 5:17am and some failed to configure, so I checked and two didn't take, but the automatic update reset itself so MS is going to do what they want and when. I wonder which ones associated with w10. Never 10 still working as far as I know since I'm not getting the upgrade pop ups. Did a system restore all the way back to last year from my backup hard drive just to get the crap off they put on. Pissing me off they are.

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I have my MS systems automatic update setting set to off.

I did too, but it wasn't me. It had to be off if 106 updates accumulated in a week. Like I said, no pop ups or banners for W10. Just like yourself, tired of BS they think they can get away with.
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Well, yesterday I let some updates take effect looking specifically for our friend KB3035583. I noticed on the 106 update marathon over the weekend that it had failed to install. However on yesterdays update they reinstalled it. I went back in and unistalled it. MS just isn't going to let up.

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You have to change the setting so that it asks before updating, and the second setting that allows it to treat "recommended updates" as though they are critical updates. Otherwise it will just keep sneaking back. 

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