Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE

theregister.co.uk ^ | June 1, 2016 | Gavin Clarke

[PROCON]

Has anyone else heard about this?

I am not happy about this.

[PROCON]

Ping

[I want the USA back]

Microsoft needs to be sued for this. This is installing software without permission. They can’t get away with calling it an upgrade. It is a new operating system.

[Farmer Dean]

Happening to me this week,twice so far.I just closed the browser.No forced update here so far.

[null and void]

[exPBRrat]

What about the add on called ‘never 10’? It was well regarded by users on the CNET.

[MarineBrat]

MS are dirtbags for this, as are the scum in govt whose NSA letters have caused all this crap from the start.

Is there anyone who actually believes that they GIVE AWAY Windows 10 “just because?”

[null and void]

It's an upgrade for them. With win10's keystroke capture "feature" they can make a lot of money selling your data.

[Steely Tom]

Ctrl+Alt+Del, open Task Manager.

Right-click on the “Windows Upgrade” application.

Select “End Task.”

[reed13k]

Hmmm - wonder if you could set the date to 3016 or 2056 or some other date waaaaay out in the future after the computer isn’t used anymore.

[IC Ken]

Last week I went to check in at a Best Western and the receptionist was panicky as Windows 109 she said automatically installed and their software was not compatible with it and the whole system for that site was crashed.

[Paine in the Neck]

Get GWX Control Panel. Simply and completely eliminates Win 10 nagware.

[MarineBrat]

BTW, they keep trying to slip the KB3035582 “Recommended” update past me on Win7. Just uninstall it and your little upgrade nagware will go away. But every time a new set of Windows updates comes out you need to check if they’re pushing this one again.

There may be other KB#’s, but this one for sure is the nagware.

Never thought I’d see the day when PC’s would no longer be considered “MY COMPUTER” by people who don’t worry about going to jail.

[bigbob]

I installed a little “never 10” program suggested by a FReeper and haven’t seen the M$ nag since.

[oh8eleven]

What about the add on called ‘never 10’? It was well regarded by users on the CNET.
"Never 10" is published by Gibson Research and I've successfully used their products for a very long time.
From their site:

"Never10 does NOT prevent the installation of Windows updates, including the infamous Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583.
Never10 simply employs Microsoft's documented and sanctioned configuration settings to instruct it NOT to change the installed version of Windows."

I'd use this in a heart beat.

[PROCON]

Windows upgrade wasn’t listed in my task manager.

[Chuzzlewit]

Gibson research has a quick fix for this. I heard it on Leo Laporte’s radio show. Can’t think of the name off the top of my head. On the train at the moment.

[mountainlion]

I have hardware that I can not use now with my windows 8.1 virus. Thanks to the guys that have given advice on how to stop the windows 10 virus.

[smokingfrog]

Turn off all updates.

Is there some way we can just block the Microsoft IP address that sends the nagware?

[Chuzzlewit]

It’s called “never 10”. I’ve installed it. Works great. And Leo Laporte is on the level. It’s available as freeware from Gibson research.