Posted on 09/11/2015 9:18:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I loaded it on my laptop, and had to take it back off, touchpad wouldn’t work correctly.
Microsoft giving away something for free makes me more suspicious than anything else...
WHY do they want us to have Windows 10 so bad?
Perhaps that is why, for the last 2 weeks, I’ve seen ‘windows update at XX%’ with the percent # moving up one or two each day. I finally, with the help of a Freeper, got into Windows and stopped the automatic updating.
Look on your C: drive, see if you find a folder called $Windows.~BT. That file is created by Windows to “assist in an upgrade to Windows 10.”
Oh, it’s a “hidden” file, so you have to turn on visibility of hidden files to see it.
can it be deleted with no quirks?
How does one take back off a Windows version upgrade? I'm toying with the idea of loading Windows 10 myself.
"Helping get ready if they decide to upgrade" is not an update. Weasels.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
So they can revert your installation of 10 to a subscription-based model in the future.
Don’t want to pay every month/year?
Revert back to your prior operating system then.
Drug dealers work a lot like this, what with their “free samples”.
My first boot up of Win 7 (2 PCs) I disabled ANY and ALL Windoze updates. 4 years later, with not one patch or update I’m running just as I did then. After I cleaned out all the preloaded crap that came on them.
I’m stuck with Windoz because of certain work related software I have been using for 20 years. But if/when I am forced to use Win 10, I am setting up one machine for work ONLY, and setting up another for everything else using Linux.
Microsoft wants to look at purchase orders and customer emails they will see absolutely nothing of interest. Nosy bastards.
So they want you to use automatic updates and then blame you for using automatic updates.
Naif that I am, this never crossed my mind. FUMS.
I don’t have the file but do have the pop-up and the update is listed and I always uncheck it. Wonder if the file is auto only for those who accepted the reservation?
“Helping get ready if they decide to upgrade” is not an update. Weasels. “
Sort like the pre-break, breaks we used to have at work.
Yes, but Windows will re-create it.
I have declined all Microsoft attempts to get me to take my "free" Windows 10. The folder is still created.
At this moment, the $Windows.~BT on my main computer is more than 5GB in size.
Check later
A friend of mine tried to load a free version of Windows 10 onto his laptop, and the laptop crashed. He still hasn’t been able to get it running again. He can’t even reboot the laptop to disable the Windows 10.
Found it on my C drive. 4.05gb! Is it safe to delete it?
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