asonisgeyo
07-18-2016,
For those of you running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you may want to strongly consider taking measures to prevent Microsoft from pushing Windows 10 to your computer without your consent. This is real and happening to a lot of PCs as I write this on 5/24/16.
Two relatively easy ways to prevent this are to install GWX Control Panel or Never10 which effectively stop automatic updates and remove the offending updates and preloaded Win10 OS that are waiting to do their trick. I have no affiliation with either product, but just am observing that they seem to work, stopping the auto scheduled Win10 update.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
The tradeoff is that you are stopping automatic updates, and may miss some critical security patch or bugfix. Both these tools do selectively allow installation of updates, assuming you can tell if an update will solve, or cause problems.
Microsoft is willingly and intentionally causing a lot of grief by forcing people to make a choice to stop updates or have their system potentially trashed by an unsuccessful update, one that could render mission critical software and hardware inoperable. Microsoft is making that update decision for you, which in my opinion is the single worst thing they have ever done to their customers.
Two relatively easy ways to prevent this are to install GWX Control Panel or Never10 which effectively stop automatic updates and remove the offending updates and preloaded Win10 OS that are waiting to do their trick. I have no affiliation with either product, but just am observing that they seem to work, stopping the auto scheduled Win10 update.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
The tradeoff is that you are stopping automatic updates, and may miss some critical security patch or bugfix. Both these tools do selectively allow installation of updates, assuming you can tell if an update will solve, or cause problems.
Microsoft is willingly and intentionally causing a lot of grief by forcing people to make a choice to stop updates or have their system potentially trashed by an unsuccessful update, one that could render mission critical software and hardware inoperable. Microsoft is making that update decision for you, which in my opinion is the single worst thing they have ever done to their customers.