cancel windows 10 upgrade

[soulsister14]

I am currently running windows 8.1 on my laptop, however a pop up window keeps

appearing saying that my pc is scheduled to upgrade to windows 10 on Saturday 12th March.

Despite the fact that I clicked cancel to cancel the upgrade, another window opened advising me to "upgrade now" or "upgrade later", and does not appear to have cancelled the upgrade.

What do I do ??

[AndyOrch]

Go to your update settings and change it to " Download updates but let me choose whether to install them "

[dx100uk]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-stay-on-windows-7-8-forever-3614204/

[JoeyJoeC]

Download this now: http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/GWX_control_panel.exe

 

It will open an app which allows you to disable the Windows 10 Upgrade.

 

Note: If it does upgrade itself to Windows 10, you have 1 month to downgrade back to Windows 7 using a tool in the Settings.

[JoeyJoeC]

Go to your update settings and change it to " Download updates but let me choose whether to install them "

 

Not advised. It will download 6GB + of Windows 10 files. Only way now is to use 3rd party tools to disable it for good. http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

[Conniff]

It's silly to cancel the upgrade to Windows 10, it is the most secure yet and it is free. Windows 8 is not supported by Microsoft except for security updates and soon will there will be no support at all and Windows 7 is nearing it's support life.

 

If you don't get Windows 10 now while it's free, and you wish to upgrade when the others are debunked you will either have to fork out a few hundred or make a permanent subscription.

[JoeyJoeC]

It's silly to cancel the upgrade to Windows 10, it is the most secure yet and it is free. Windows 8 is not supported by Microsoft except for security updates and soon will there will be no support at all and Windows 7 is nearing it's support life.

 

If you don't get Windows 10 now while it's free, and you wish to upgrade when the others are debunked you will either have to fork out a few hundred or make a permanent subscription.

 

How can you say it is the most secure when it hasn't even been around for a year yet?

 

It will continue to be free for much longer than they say, they are desperate to get people to move to it.

[Conniff]

Because it is not a rewrite or update of the previous versions but a completely new from the bottom up version with security as the main theme.

[JoeyJoeC]

Different not exactly better. The system is very new so it's not possible to say it is more secure or not.

 

https://www.upguard.com/articles/top-10-windows-10-security-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2969896/microsoft-subnet/microsoft-patches-windows-10-edge-4-critical-holes-2-exploits-in-the-wild.html

http://breakingmalware.com/vulnerabilities/one-bit-rule-bypassing-windows-10-protections-using-single-bit/

https://www.hackread.com/windows-10-security-flaw-user-credentials/

 

 

I even used a simple method to bypass the login screen when a client had forgotten their password. Still a long way to go on this OS.

[renegadeimp]

I dont get why people dont like win 10. Its sleeker, faster, more secure, more stable, more compatibility. It seems the ONLY peopel that have an issue are the ones using 10 year old tech where mobo compontents arent supported, and even the manufacturer of the hardware itself gave up support years ago.

[renegadeimp]

You can even install it, and use something like classic shell to get the old start menu back. Couple of other good programs out there to modified notifications etc, and youll never even know you changed versions apart from how better your system runs overall

[JoeyJoeC]

I work in IT, so many of our clients have automatically updated to Windows 10. Our work load has doubled with software not working, drivers not installing, WiFi / sound not working, a few have not been able to log back in after the upgrade.

 

We not have to bodge windows in order to prevent this upgrade, which only lasts a few weeks before it is trying to do it again.

 

Last week I had to perform 7 downgrades.

 

I did install this on my Dell laptop which is 2 years old, WiFi stopped working completely, after reinstalling drivers, it now barely works with constant drops in connectivity. Office 2016 and Windows 10 currently have a bug which makes it difficult to write emails, several of our clients have this bug.

[renegadeimp]

If you work in IT you should have contacted the hardware manufacturers in advance for any software you'll need as almost all of them protest it for months on the dev builds ms release. And as for software, unless it is a specialised piece of kit, the developers usually do the same. The specialised ones will likely charge you as they provide software just for your company. All this usually happens months before the op even hits an actually release build or date

[sillygirl1]

In Windows 10 there is a setting that if you are on a battery laptop the wifi is turned OFF as an 'energy saving' feature. This is dead simple to disable.

 

Windows 10 saved an older laptop from going to the local tip, it made it run far faster and solved a lot of the mismatched drivers problems the laptop kept having.

[JoeyJoeC]

If you work in IT you should have contacted the hardware manufacturers in advance for any software you'll need as almost all of them protest it for months on the dev builds ms release. And as for software, unless it is a specialised piece of kit, the developers usually do the same. The specialised ones will likely charge you as they provide software just for your company. All this usually happens months before the op even hits an actually release build or date

 

Yes spoke with Lenovo and HP and both said 'should work, but we can't guarantee it'.

 

The specialised software has only just became compatible with Office 2013. It is not compatible with Windows 10 for sure as we deal with them often. Thats why we have to try and prevent the upgrade which doesn't always work.

[JoeyJoeC]

In Windows 10 there is a setting that if you are on a battery laptop the wifi is turned OFF as an 'energy saving' feature. This is dead simple to disable.

 

Windows 10 saved an older laptop from going to the local tip, it made it run far faster and solved a lot of the mismatched drivers problems the laptop kept having.

 

I'm sure I could have got it running on Windows 7 just as well.

[brassnecked]

Prefer Ubuntu Studio myself, too much spyware and phoning home to Redmond in Win 10, in fact the telemetry and tracking included in can cause breaches of legal compliances regarding data security for Corporate user.

[JoeyJoeC]

Turned my Windows 10 laptop on this morning, now for no reason what so ever, the keyboard has decided to revert back to US English. Even changing the keyboard to UK format doesn't work.

[dx100uk]

yep done that on 2 of mine after the lastest update.

 

 

you have to reset your region again

 

 

dx

[JoeyJoeC]

yep done that on 2 of mine after the lastest update.

 

 

you have to reset your region again

 

 

dx

 

Done that, set keyboard to UK English as well, set as default, still not working.

 

Really hate the forced updates, I turn my laptop on some mornings to find I can't use it for 40 minutes while it updates. I want to restart it now, but only given @Update and Restart@, @Update and Shutdown@ (Note the stupid US layout!) Brilliant OS!

[JoeyJoeC]

And after the restart: http://imglnk.uk/img?i=AXaBHH

 

Couldn't make this up!!!

[dx100uk]

i'd try a chkdsk c: /v /f /r

[JoeyJoeC]

i'd try a chkdsk c: /v /f /r

 

Nothing wrong with the SDD. Time to reinstall Win 7 (I'm leaving the company in 20 days so I'm not that bothered about it)

[renegadeimp]

Prob ancient hardware

[JoeyJoeC]

Prob ancient hardware

 

Not an old laptop. And old hardware doesn't cause boot errors. This is purely a logical issue.. Not to mention, Windows upgraded to Windows 10 on this laptop, if it was 'ancient', then it shouldn't have done it!

 

Windows 10 is a pile of s***