It is my understanding that Microsoft will be FORCING Windows 7 users to update to Windows 10!!!
Nope. They may force download of this item of spyware as an update, but installation would still require some sort of manual intervention. 7 is supported until at least 2019.
A truly automated update process would result in a lot of software that would suddenly not work and lawsuits. (e.g. any Quickbooks older than 2015)
Also, there’s an easy way to block Win 10 installation entirely — GWX Control Panel which can be downloaded here:
In short: shove Windows 10 up your raw arsehole, Satan Nadella. I’ll update when I’m good and fucking ready.
Oh, and my next “upgrade” will be to Ubuntu if/when Win 7 is no longer supported.[/quote]
The GWX Control Panel does work.. except some of Microsoft’s patches actually reset the flags to ‘resurrect’ the Windows 10 update. There is also a registry entry that you can set to help stop the update to Win10. At this point, I would recommend imaging your system drives because it is hard to anticipate what Microsoft is going to come up with next in their effort to push the update. Ok, quick list;
1) Disable auto updates. Review your updates before applying (regularly).
2) Check sites that are monitoring Microsoft’s patch lists for Win10 update gotchas.
3) Do not install the following patches: KB3022345, KB2952664, KB3021917, KB3035583, KB3068708, KB3075249, KB3080149, KB3102429, KB971033 – This is my present list that I use for ‘hiding’ patches. It does include Microsoft ‘Telemetrics’ patches (snoopware).
4) Set the following keys;
set “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateOSUpgradeAllowOSUpgrade” to (DWORD)0 . You may need to create the key folder ‘OSUpgrade’. You can use regedit to do this.
set “HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsGwxDisableGwx” to (DWORD)1.
So far, I have not gotten the Win10 nag, I am running Win8.1 with ‘ClassicShell’ to get the menus back.
By the way, if you want to run RedHat equivalent OS, you can resort to CentOS. You can download the ISO across BitTorrent. This is also true with other versions of Linux.
