Looks like it may be happening now.
Seen it happen. It is easy to fix though. Decline the license agreement and it reverts to previous OS in about 10 minutes, and nothing is damaged.
I changed my wife’s settings to not automatically. Was previously warned, so far no problem.
But thanks for post.
That’s funny. My husband’s PC keeps freezing, giving a “disk space full” message, and supposedly the upgrade is to install Windows 10, only it won’t install - the download halts about 20% done, every time.
Our friend’s upgraded on its own to Windows 10 Saturday evening. She was in the middle of a project. She was afraid to do anything because she wasn’t sure if stopping the upgrade would mess it up worse. She didn’t want it but is willing to live with it if her computer is working.
You’re gonna upgrade whether you want it or not!
And furthermore, you’re gonna love it or else!.....................
On black Tuesday, I went to do my updates and under Optional Updates the upgrade to Windows 10 box was checked and it wasn’t by me. If I had not looked it might have happened to me. I’m not sure how it happens without accepting the EULA though.
It happened to me. It took an IT professional 2 weeks to get it back up and running. Getting it back today (I hope). I had windows 7 and it just crashes one morning. Windows 10 upgrade done overnight was the cause.
I think microsoft might be trying to do this with my computer. Fortunately there isn’t enough hd space on my flash drive for this to happen. F you microsoft.
Yeak they are tricking people...like my mother for example. Windows is asking users, upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later? Seemigly only giving users with two options
Thanks
another win 10 BKMK-
I’ve also read that Windows 10 doesn’t play nicely with “unapproved” (by Microsoft) virus protection and other computer security software.
Don’t know if that is true but I’ve avoided upgrading because I like my current s/w and don’t trust Microsoft to implement a perfect security utility.
My laptop updated to 10 overnight. At 84 years of age, I am far from puter savvy, so one morning last week, I opened my puter to a request to O.K. an update, and thinking it was probably a scheduled update clicked O.K. and lo and behold, I now have Windows 10. What really angers me is that I now no longer have Internet Explorer and have lost all my favorites. All my FR threads I have been saving in favorites are lost along with loads of other personal Freeper favorites. Dang
I’d suspect this is all “user error”. As others have said, you’d have to click do the update and even if it were automatically running on those who chose “later”, declining the ToS would stop it.
The fact is most users don’t read what they are clicking on. If they did, that would stop 99% of all malware that has been spreading around in recent years.
Turn off automatic updates and then be careful about what updates you manually install.
Do people actually have this on video?
Because an OS installing itself via an internet download without any user input, like choosing or creating a disk partition, creating a user account, or picking a wifi network, would what would need to happen for this upgrade to just magically happen.
Install this ... it stops the notices & will get rid of the files Microsoft has downloaded, if they’ve gone that far. I have it on two laptops, one of which already had the files on it - got rid of everything, working well:
GWX Control Panel
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html
Per the link:
GWX Control Panel is the easiest way for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to protect their computers from Windows 10. With GWX Control Panel you can: Remove the “Get Windows 10” icon that appears in your notification area, prevent your Windows Update control panel from upgrading your computer to Windows 10, prevent your computer from secretly downloading Windows 10 installation files, detect and remove the hidden Windows 10 installation files if they’re already on your PC, optionally monitor your computer for unwanted Windows 10-related settings and files- and beginning with version 1.7 you can now easily delete some hard-to-remove program files that are known to cause Windows 10 upgrades and annoyances.
GWX Control Panel is free software that really works, is safe and easy to use, and gives you the option to re-enable the icon and upgrade notifications if you’re ever ready to move forward with Windows 10.
I got this handy little application from a post right here on FR (GWX Control Panel). I stopped automatic updates months ago to prevent this, and then used this app to further shut it down. So far, I’m ok. Screw MS.
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
I installed the GWX blocker some time back, and a week or so ago I stopped downloading updates (I have it set where I am alerted that there are updates and it is up to me to download and install them). And kind FReepers have noted which updates to delete from the computer, and I did that too.
And I still worry they will ruin my computer, which I use for work. I usually scoff at class action lawsuits, but this seems like a prime case for one. Malicious destruction of private property for starters and it could rise to loss of income and personal information. I don’t care what it says in the user agreements, and any jury of regular computer users will probably feel the same way.