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Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide
The Register - UK ^ | January 8, 2016 | Iain Thomson

Posted on 01/09/2016 11:50:01 AM PST by ConservativeMind

If you're using a PC running Windows 7 or 8, you may be getting a little sick of endless popup screens telling you to upgrade to version 10. And you may be worried about inadvertently installing the upgrade as part of a security update.

Microsoft will start pushing out a Windows 10 upgrade as a recommended, virtually mandatory, update very soon (it's right now only an optional download). Some people are tempted to turn off Windows Update completely to avoid getting the new operating system – don't. It'll leave your computer vulnerable to attack as you'll no longer get security patches.

It's actually rather easy to turn off the Windows 10 upgrade function without losing vital regular software updates. Microsoft even has an official document explaining how to do it.

A Redmond spokesperson today confirmed that support page is still valid – its instructions still work even though it was quietly published a few months ago. It involves digging into the Registry to disable the Windows 10 upgrade path, but it's not impossible nor particularly scary for a Register reader.

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KEYWORDS: microsoft; tech; windows; windows10
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Many people, myself included, do not intend to upgrade older computers to the new, free, Windows 10. Microsoft has made refusing this upgrade almost impossible, at times. The upgrade is free because Microsoft will know everything you do and have saved on your computer. They will be able to mine your old and new data (including keystrokes) and your usage of programs and websites, to ostensibly market ads to you throughout all of your activities. It also helps them tell the government all such information, when requested.
1 posted on 01/09/2016 11:50:01 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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I`m still interested in LINUX programs but I tried downloading Ubuntu last year and it crashed my computer to the point I had to take it to the Geek Squad to reload my Windows. Is there anything else that`s easy to use but open source enough to not be henchman to the proglydite statists?


2 posted on 01/09/2016 11:59:42 AM PST by nomad
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“Microsoft will start pushing out a Windows 10 upgrade as a recommended, virtually mandatory, update very soon”

Translation:

Microsoft isn’t going to “force” you to do anything, but this article is a complete waste of time unless we can lie and tell you (with weasel words just in case we get called on the lie) that they are going to make you. Just watch how many people leave logic at the door and completely believe this!

“virtually mandatory”? Swear these tech blogs just hire the first retard off the street that can plug in a USB mouse to write this stuff.


3 posted on 01/09/2016 12:02:40 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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I’m running Mint on my web-connected PC now, so no worries about the MSJBTs.


4 posted on 01/09/2016 12:04:18 PM PST by Disambiguator
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The bastards will not force me into installing an operating system with no guarantee that my applications and programs will work.
I own my computer and have useful work to do with it.
When I’m ready I’ll buy a new computer with 10 already installed.

It’s not an upgrade. It’s changing the most fundamental set of programs that run the computer.


5 posted on 01/09/2016 12:08:17 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Windows 10, nicknamed “Windows Cosby” will force itself on your computer. Be vigilant.


6 posted on 01/09/2016 12:12:05 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (As a representative of Earth, I officially welcome Global Warming to our planet)
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To: I want the USA back

“The bastards will not force me into installing an operating system “

No one is forcing you to do anything. Good grief.


7 posted on 01/09/2016 12:12:52 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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I think Windows 10 is a fine operating system.

At least I am happy with it so far.


8 posted on 01/09/2016 12:19:57 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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I need to turn it off due to an incompatibility with my video card... MS needs to address this and make the process “simple enough for a caveman”.


9 posted on 01/09/2016 12:20:01 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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XP TID!!!


10 posted on 01/09/2016 12:22:29 PM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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Linux Mint 64 bit on 6 yr old desktop works fine. Loaded it on fresh, new SSD.


11 posted on 01/09/2016 12:25:09 PM PST by Paladin2
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Linux Mint with Cinnamon is supposedly the best as of today for ease of use and install.

If you want security in the highest form, OpenBSD has a DVD download that has added security for all the normal packages l, which do come bundled. The complete package should be solid, but not as easy to modify as other BSDs or Linux distributions.

These are the only two worth exploring, in my opinion, unless you jump to Apple.


12 posted on 01/09/2016 12:25:40 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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It tries. So far, I’v ebeen able to keep it off.


13 posted on 01/09/2016 12:28:38 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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It tries. So far, I’v ebeen able to keep it off.


14 posted on 01/09/2016 12:28:38 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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If anyone with Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 decides the Metro interface is for the birds on anything but a tablet, download and install the free “Classic Shell” and banish Metro from our life forever. The underlying OS is good and stable, it’s the user interface (GUI) that annoys hell out of many of us, and Classic Shell makes Windows 8 and newer look and feel like XP or Win 7.


15 posted on 01/09/2016 12:28:44 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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I think some number of people with Automatic Updates turned on should have seen, thanks to a hiccup from Microsoft, a prompt to install 10 appear every two days since that was triggered, if they accepted the “reservation.”

More will get that when Automatic Updates moves the reservation to the next level of install importance.


16 posted on 01/09/2016 12:30:55 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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PFL


17 posted on 01/09/2016 12:32:43 PM PST by onona (Blind Faith - originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records)
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"The bastards will not force deceitfully trick me into installing an operating system"

Better?

18 posted on 01/09/2016 12:37:32 PM PST by null and void (This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
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My machine already has those keys that way. The wife’s doesn’t even have the Windows Update section.


19 posted on 01/09/2016 12:39:27 PM PST by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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bfl


20 posted on 01/09/2016 12:41:03 PM PST by kanawa
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