bittermann
Well-known member
Want to tell MS where to put it...install Win 10 and use the feedback central app!
Yeah, that'd show 'em, wouldn't it?Want to tell MS where to put it...install Win 10 and use the feedback central app!
Gotcha - and yes, I completely agree.Oh, I'm well aware of that, too. I'm installing fewer and fewer of the monthly updates these days due to Microsoft's shenanigans. And I'm very wary of their new "solution" to slow and painful updates on Win7-- monthly rollups that include the very updates I purposely avoid.
A part of me wants to just give up and accept the way things have turned. But the rest of me wants to tell MS precisely where to shove their new "OS-as-a-service" rhetoric. I guess I've just gotten old and crotchety.
And by "baggage," I meant the whole slew of changes that are the new law of the land: forced updates, including monthly cumulative updates that seem to cause as much harm as good, along with forced driver upgrades, the overt telemetry and data-gathering, the "appification" of the OS as a whole, the insistence on using a MS account, and the overall dumbing-down of the system (wherein MS treats its customers as being unable to make their own decisions), etc., etc.
These are just the first few that sprang to mind. Plus they're being downright invasive-- and exceedingly arrogant-- when it comes to pushing people onto Win10, whether they want it or not. Folks shouldn't have to aggressively opt-out of stuff like this, ya know?
The forced update is really intrusive. I have a Flash update for edge I didn't want because I had Flash disabled. It will nag you a few time then it would take over the screen giving you one option to click. I don't even know if have the option let save your work once you click it. Any how I killed the process to gain access to my screen again.
Windows registry
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For non-Enterprise versions of Windows, the notification icon can be suppressed through the Windows registry. To do this, set the following registry value:
Subkey: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx
DWORD value: DisableGwx = 1
Thanks deadite_9, didn't know about this part
Actually, the closest thing to a permanent fix involves vetting all non-security updates before allowing them to be installed. And to do that, you have to disable WU and scour the internet every time an update is released-- or at least every Patch Tuesday. Otherwise, you let a third-party tool do the after-party cleanup... or you do it yourself. None of those scenarios is particularly appealing, but that's exactly what your choices are nowadays if you want to stand up to the incessant bullying from Microsoft.The problem is it's a changing target courtesy of MS, that's why no fix is permanent.
Windows 7 support goes as far as 2020 and Windows 8.1 to 2023 so they're hardly "deprecated" - hell even Vista still gets patched so they're hardly deprecated.If you're too dumb to deal with the Windows 10 upgrade prompt for a year, you're also too dumb to be trusted on a deprecated OS. There are numerous free utilities to permanently block the Windows 10 upgrade that could be found with a 2 second Google search.
Windows 7 support goes as far as 2020 and Windows 8.1 to 2023 so they're hardly "deprecated" - hell even Vista still gets patched so they're hardly deprecated.
Vista has less than a year left, though. And software is dropping support for it left and right (Chrome is probably the most notable one). I have my nephews on an old Vista machine at the moment, and I'm gonna need to upgrade them. Win10 is the only viable alternative-- buying Win7 or 8.1 right now just doesn't make any sense-- but I still hate to do it to them.
Has nothing to do with being dumb and everything to do with MS trying to force people into an OS they may or may not want. Example, on some systems Windows 10 starts the install process then fails because the hardware is not compliant. At some later point it will try again. And again.If you're too dumb to deal with the Windows 10 upgrade prompt for a year, you're also too dumb to be trusted on a deprecated OS. There are numerous free utilities to permanently block the Windows 10 upgrade that could be found with a 2 second Google search.
You can sometimes find it for around $80 or so, but generally speaking... the OEM version of Win7 Home edition retails for the same price as the full version of Win10 Home. Plus, the upgrade would retain the same license as the Win7 install (i.e., it's supposed to be tied to the existing hardware only).Take advantage of the cheap Windows 7 OEM license and do the free upgrade.
Then you can optionally disable the GWX icon by adding another registry key and rebooting. You can safely leave the GWX app/icon running, however-- the first step is what actually kills the upgrade. Removing the icon just makes for a cleaner system tray.
Windows registry
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For non-Enterprise versions of Windows, the notification icon can be suppressed through the Windows registry. To do this, set the following registry value:
Subkey: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx
DWORD value: DisableGwx = 1
SOURCE for all of the above: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351