[Vanity] Windows 7 updates being blocked by Windows 10 update in panel HELP!

December 5, 2015 | self

[huldah1776]

Boy do I need that. I have a toshiba laptop that needs a new hard drive, so I have bookmarked it am hoping they don’t sell out! I noticed that toshiba wasn’t listed, will it work?

[huldah1776]

After doing the GWX turn off things this morning I had to check and see if those updates were downloaded and installed and sure enough there they were. BOOM! gone. Appreciate your help. THANKS!

[huldah1776]

Thank you for the reinforcement, did get the GWX but I have a mini-panic attack thinking about doing the REGEDIT4. Took some programming classes and I know that I know enough to be very, very dangerous and screw things up!

[oh8eleven]

Thank you! did get it uninstalled and my hard drive and slow internet are quiet.
Have you tried Windows 10? I have Win 7 and hated Windows 8.
So I took a 9 year old PC running Vista and did a clean install of Win10 Beta back in January.
While I still prefer Win 7, Win 10 is not all that bad.
Good luck ...

[TomGuy]

Open REGEDIT.

Select FILE

Perform EXPORT before you make any changes.

Then, if you need to restore, you can do an IMPORT.

[Democratic-Republican]

Using

REGEDIT4

as the first line of the script is fine, as it is compatible all the way back to Win95. REGEDIT still accepts it. But you can feel free to substitute in

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

I prefer to leave out whitespaces whenever there is a choice. It's about leaving nothing to chance, and not allowing some dodgy Editor/Word Processor an opportunity to screw up what was once a simple CHAR 0x20 DEC 32

You can also use plain ANSI/ASCII text rather than unicode in all REGEDIT versions. And yes, you can use

REGEDIT4

as the top line in a unicode script, and vice versa.

KISS ... keepin' it simple

No worries, mate.

[Democratic-Republican]

I should add that for anyone not wanting to use a script with REGEDIT, they can instead use the GUI. Just run REGEDIT ( as an Administrator, type it in the box in the Start/Orb menu and then right-click 'RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR' ) and maneuver to the branch, right-click and create a new dword, type the value name, hit ENTER twice, type 1 or 0 and hit ENTER.

The only problem is that one or both keys do not already exist on most systems and adding keys through the GUI is a little more complicated for average users.

But it is a good idea for everyone to save a complete exported copy of the entire registry for reference ( not just for this particular topic, but for any and all scenarios ). Fire up REGEDIT, make sure the highlight is at the top on the first level at 'MY COMPUTER' or 'COMPUTER', click FILE then EXPORT, give it a meaningful name including the current date and save it somewhere as a REG file.

For further due diligence, rename it from .REG to something else like .RegExport so that no-one accidentally imports it to REGEDIT. That should never be allowed to happen as it is never going to work and can be very bad for the keys that do successfully get imported. You see, if you are in REGEDIT and click import, the dialog box screens out all files except .REG and clicking on them can be very hazardous.

Additionally, most Windows installations have the EXPLORER shell configured to send any .REG file automatically into REGEDIT if you double-click on it, or worse, if you hover over it in Vista and above ( auto-execute ) it is part of the idiotic hand-holding nature of these OS versions. It is very dangerous!

[laker_dad]

You’re welcome, glad I could help.

[huldah1776]

Simple is good. That’s why I fear the new stuff. Started with DOS. :)