Posted on 01/11/2016 7:02:41 PM PST by Utilizer
If you're running Windows 7 or 8.1 on a computer that isn't attached to a domain, you're no doubt familiar with the "Get Windows 10" ads that try to convince you -- sometimes subtly, sometimes forcefully -- to install Windows 10. Microsoft's intrusive campaign has drawn much well-deserved ire among Windows customers. I think it represents a new low in Microsoft marketing -- right down there in the Scroogled end of the gene pool.
Back in August, Microsoft posted KB 3080351, a discussion of new Group Policy settings and two obscure registry entries -- DisableOSUpgrade and ReservationsAllowed -- that, taken together, are supposed to "prevent Windows 7, Windows 7 for Embedded Systems, Windows 8.1, and Windows Embedded 8.1 Pro clients from upgrading" to Windows 10.
(Excerpt) Read more at infoworld.com ...
It's for your own good, mate. (/sarc)
It never did that before, but it's gone now.
Will never use x. I will do what i can on other platforms.
Windows x is fedgov’s wet dream, and microsquish’s as well.
Upgraded from 8.1 to 10 and am glad I did. Sorry for those that don’t want to. I am anti-nagware. Also upgraded my work computer from 7 to 10. Seems faster.
I installed Linux. No more Microsoft issues!
It was easier than installing Windows.
Note too that manually disabling the autopudate now only works for a maximum of 12 hours before ‘doze resets itself and begins nagging you all over again...
Load Linux Mint.
It's ready for the home desktop.
I find it easy. Disable auto-update.
I’ve never seen “Get Windows 10” Ever.
I run 7 on both machines. I have yet to see any of these nagwares.
I use adblock plus and NoScript. I wonder that’s why.
Read the article. Especially the parts about downloads occurring hidden in the background without your knowledge or consent.
You can stop the annoying pop-ups by following the procedure below. I have used it and I haven’t been bothered in the past two months. The offending update is KB3035583 and MS repeatedly re-inserts this update every time it offers you other critical updates.
You can refer to the below mentioned steps to hide an update.
Press Window key + X.
Select Control Panel from the list.
Under view by option select large icons.
And then click either Windows Update or Microsoft Update.
Now click on important updates available (recommended).
Click to clear the check box that is next to the KB3035583 update.
Expand the KB3035583 update that you want to hide, and then click the “Don’t show this update again” check box or in my case with Windows 8.1, “hide” .
Click Review and install updates.
I repeat, after performing the above steps, I have not been bothered by the offending pop-up.
Ping... (((.)))
I thought blocking nagware was trivial.
Somebody told me that...
I have a friend who is blind. These pop ups are really messing with his ability to use his computer.
If one was foolish enough to buy a preinstalled version of winblows 7 with a hardware purchase, i.e. a laptop, they will get nagware which is difficult to completely remove.
If you must have winblows...why?...then at least run it as a VM using an **OEM** version (Amazon).
Many of us recently got a message that we had to prove our versions of winblows were valid - WITHIN 72 HOURS OR WE WOULD LOSE EVERYTHING... “Genuine Advantage.”
MS CAN AND WILL kill you deader than a doornail if they think your copy of winblows is invalid.
Don’t be a dope, go with FREE and OPEN Source (or CRapple if you like suicide nets and parking cash offshore to avoid corporate taxes) run winblows as a VM with an OEM version of their shtware.
What's wrong with that?
It's a free NWO if U got the do-re-me....
Reason number 683 of why Windows is being pushed out of my life.
They will have to take away my Windows 7 FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS !
Upgraded from 8.1 to 10 and am glad I did. Sorry for those that don’t want to. I am anti-nagware. Also upgraded my work computer from 7 to 10. Seems faster.
Brother-in-law had a computer that was running Win 7 until the nephew punched the "upgrade to win 10" button. Now it's dead; doesn't even display the BIOS start screens. No idea what Win 10 could have done to cause that.
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