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oh thanks for nothing Microsucks
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3024777
they sent ANOTHER update to remove that one :shut:
At least this time it's a tiny little update, although annoyingly it also needs a reboot afterwards. >:(
The buggers changed my settings again without my permission
I went to sleep rendering an animation
I awoke to Windoze restarting
You have to get into the habbit of checking for updates and then updating Windows prior to you leaving a render over night. It is one way I protect myself from these auto-updates.
You do have the option to set up your reboot options under the Advanced area of Updates.... I've never had a reboot forced on me since I chose that option...
My windows boxes are not allowed on the internet at all, and additionally, microsoft.com is blocked at the router.
Kendall
Windows 10 can gobble some data, that's for sure, with its automatic updating. I like W10 though, so I put up with it.
I think I finally got rid of the win10 update madness but had to wait til this month's updates came through which they just did in the wee hours this morning to see if it really worked..
My clue is clicking on the Start button to see if the bang graphic shows up on the Shut Down button. It's been free of the bang graphic for almost a month now whereas before it would appear a few minutes after I unchecked what I didn't want (I haven't been bothered by auto restarts for four years so I'm not worried about that).
After checking only the security updates to install today (there were 12 of them) and installing them then rebooting, the bang graphic disappeared---for about half an hour. It came back and two 'important' KB updates had been rechecked in windows update when I again opened it. One fixes bugs in windows update (traffic jam with lots of updates at once and 100% processor usage). I'd install except I don't trust MS to not sneakily change something it doesn't tell us about). The other was a USB blocker fix on Lenova machines.which I don't need.
So I right-clicked on both of them and selected to Hide. The Bang graphic has been gone for a few hours now so I think this is okay.
What I did last month was to Hide the Windows 10 update entry, but it kept coming back. When I hid two related KB entries in the other tab (there are two side tabs in windows update when you choose to see the actual updates from the main screen--Important and optional) the Bang finally went away for good. There was some trial and error involved.
I don't know if this matters, but I also got rid of some scheduler and registry entries that got rid of the win10 update icon on the taskbar. It was a long process that I found through google and I can't find a record in my notes about it. Sorry. Perhaps if you google GWX and some other keywords you can find it. GWX seems to mean Get Windows 10 and the reg entries all had that name but I don't remember the folders and files also involved.
HTH but actually hiding some files in windows update made the difference and we all probably have different files in our update list that should be hidden.
And that would be the best fix.
It's real simple you just stay disconnected to the internet !!!
Hope that helps
Lol
As if those of us who have annoyances with MS update would never think of unplugging. Sheesh. For some of us that's simply not an option.
Me too — last month I had to work at it to stop Win10 updating without my approval. In last night's updates there weren't any optionals at all, and no sign of the Win10 update. So far...
Me too, too. As soon as I finished last night, I noticed those two had reappeared. Still there when I switched on tonight, I'll wait a bit and see what happens.
The Matrix has you Neo !!! Lol
I believe you are (somewhere in the network options) able to set a connection to be 'metered' and if you do so W10 will not do any updates
I had 17 windows update today it took me 20 minutes to go through and read about each update. .as usually 4 of them had to do with upgrading to windows10.from windows 7 systems and 4 more update for bug fixes in windows10 which I do not even have or want.. Fortunately I still have windows 7 and I unchecked & hide those updates like the rest of the winblows 10 updates i got. But yet they keep sending them out as critical updates. its sickening. I have no interest in upgrading my system. I'm very happy using my windows7 pro. it does everything i ask it too. Its set up the way I like it. & I am very efficient with this version of windows. So if i don't need or want a new Operating System. Then why is MS trying so hard to shove windows10 down my throat. I mean Really ! How can they get away with it? Please raise you hand if you got MS win10 nag-ware in a windows update and had to hunt it down, to get rid of it. its a real pain in the feces hole.
Its like I'm happy with the 10 year old car I drive. & I'm sure glad car manufactures are not allowed to shove a car down my throat even if i don't want one. So why is MS trying to do with windows10. what part of I do not what to upgrade my system do they not understand? Why can they not accept I am happy with what I have. and do not want their crappy DRM OS. GRIEF!
I disabled some of the startup programs, but they keep coming alive again.
Seems the more I disabled, the more they enabled, so I gave up and accepted the inevitability of the updates.
Like I said, I do like Windows 10. :-) I know others don't, and don't even like the thought of it, but it works for me.
I had upgraded my four Win 8.1 machines two laptops and two desktops to Win 10 I then rolled both the desktops and one laptop back to Win 8.1 made sure that all the kb files for Win 10 were disabled and deleted out the upgrade install files for Win 10
Everything went fine for about a week or so and then I come in to find that both desktops and the laptop were rebooting with a brand new Win 10 install on them and to make matters worse they removed the rollback function on them.all without me having any say about it
Left the two desktops alone but installed Linux Mint on the laptop and I am considering doing the same with the desktops
So far the one Win 7 Ultimate machine has stayed safe maybe because Win 10 never got installed on it
GWX has not reinstalled its folder of crap to Windows system 32
took me long enough to get rid of previous one playing with file permissions and crap
the update no longer hidden again though either
I haven't figured out how to stop the taskbar pop-up windows 10 upgrade offer in Windows 7. I found a few updates and removed them, but later I still saw it again, every month or so maybe it reappears. Does anybody have a complete list? I've also seen it pop up completely blank recently, I only know what it is because it's the same size and shape as it was before. Not a big deal, but annoying to have to keep closing a window over and over to see what's under it on my screen.
Don't you just love the flip side...shut the machine off...and it won't let you...for more than 15 minutes...waiting for the updates to finish...
Love the Outer Limits quote
What version of Windows 7 do you have? If you have Windows 7 Home (and maybe Ultimate), then I think you're sort of stuck. If you have Windows 7 Professional, there's a way to disable the actual update through the group policy editor. It doesn't disable the GWX thing in the task bar, but it has the weird effect of making your system not realize that it's there. For now, anyway.
I've still got the GWX dingbat, but it's ... quiet. It hasn't prompted me to do anything since I withdrew my reservation, blocked Windows Update from upgrading to a new version of Windows, and hid the GWX updater itself from Update, and that was about two months ago. I've checked a few times to make sure that it hasn't done the silent download that they've been doing, and it hasn't.
I did have to uninstall one of the security updates that MS sent out yesterday. It was clobbering all sorts of things. I'm sure whatever the update was protecting against was horrible awful no good very bad ... but so was the update. For Outlook users, it made Outlook crash all the time. I was having all sorts of other crashes.
Supposedly, the last wave of unrequested updates to Windows 10 was caused by a bug on the Windows update server that's since been fixed. That said, Microsoft is going to get really horrifyingly aggressive about pushing out Windows 10 updates to people next year. I'm not sure if they'll go as far as overriding the group policy editor -- that's kind of a major thing to do, and their business customers who have Pro and not Enterprise (a lot of them) would scream bloody murder about that. But it's going to shift Windows 10 from "Optional" to "Recommended" in early 2016, which means that if your system automatically installs Recommended updates and Important updates at the same time, the Windows 10 update will happen then. You'll need to start paying very close attention to what's getting pushed out in updates.
I don't know if this is right or not, but I've read the W10 updates are cumulative. If you've deleted one update, the next will be glad to reinstall it for you. :-)
However, somehow, the updates are supposed to be smart enough not to overwrite what's already on a machine. In other words, we get what we need with an update.
Maybe that's why my little startup progies keep reappearing, like bad little elves.
Nothing like having Big Brother make your decisions for you, is there? ;-) Just kidding. As I said, I really like Windows 10. And it seems to repair itself, if I goof up.
Microsoft has admitted to overriding settings and forcing updates
I read that on Krebs too. That is why I shut off Automatic Updates and I blocked windows Update from accessing the interenet on my firewall. I've been doing my updates manually, I'll do that for as long as I can then that will be it for update for this system..
If I had a new system built that came with windows 10 that be fine.I'd deal with it.. But this old system I have now is custom built to the way I like it with the OS I like & paid for so there no way I'm upgrading it. and if MS replaces my windows without my permission. after i refused the upgrade offer. I will do my best to find a lawyer to take my case. But I'm pretty sure if that happened I won't be the only one looking to sue MS either.
Maybe this:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-7-to-10-gwx-how-to-remove.html
I disabled auto-update on my XP laptop a long time ago and used wsus offline update to pull down the updates and build an iso from time to time. I never got around to installing the updates, but I had them if I wanted/needed them. I'm now doing the same for my Win 8.1 laptop. I'll only install updates if I need them to make other software work. I don't run any other Microsoft products beside the OS, I read mail in text mode when using the laptop, I've blocked all ads and web-bugs - and I don't get infected. Despite 3 hours or so per day at a wi-fi hotspot (I run a malwarebytes scan weekly; the worst I've ever found has been three 'suspicious' cookies). Updates, in this day and age, are overrated.
And yes, I do visit the occasional unfriendly web site - but what with the ad blocker, no java, and no flash there's not much that can get through.
They might as well admit it. ;-) No reason to deny the obvious.
I read, somewhere, that the idea behind Win10 is to have the user not have to worry about mundane things like updates and settings. Windows 10 will take care of itself, leaving the user free to do his/her own thing on the computer, no worries about maintenance. There are good and bad sides to that approach, I guess. I'm sort of relieved not to have to worry about the tech side of things so much. More tech savvy people would not be so obliging, I don't think.
They'll get away with though because after the admission to cover their a$$ they claimed it was due to a software error
I really wish someone would sue them for all this forcing and tricking people into updating.