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... and note that I not only use Windows 10, and have every day for a year, all of my production machines run Windows 10, and I wrote a 1,000-page book about Windows 10, using Windows 10.
It's a great operating system, if you don't mind the snooping and the lack of control over updates.
This Windows 7 forced upgrade stuff is way over the top.
Claiming it's forced on you is way over the top. Especially when you have proof posted here showing otherwise.
I welcome any 100% undeniable proof showing it forced on you, and not from user error.
RE: Your article.
I could be wrong but that surely that setting makes optional updates become important updates and thus will be checked and downloaded.It's a clean machine, with all the defaults. Windows Automatic Update, for example, is set to Install Updates Automatically (Recommended). Recommended updates is set to "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates."
If the user has the following settings then nothing optional is downloaded without the user's say so.
See posts #3 & #4 here:
KB3035583 Reappeared After Being Hidden
I thought so, too, so I unchecked "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" and ran Windows Update again. As described in the article, WU checked the box again.
Microsoft changed the behavior of Windows Update over the weekend. I've been documenting Windows Update, in print, for more than a decade. I know it well - and it's changed.
This is the first "Recommended, Optional" patch I can recall. It works differently.
Do you have a clean Win7 machine handy? Go into WU's "Select updates to install" and uncheck "Upgrade to Windows10 Pro, version 1511,10586." Click OK.
Now click "Check for updates" on the left.
WU will tell you to "Upgrade to Windows 10"
Now, click on the link marked "Show all available updates." See how "Upgrade to Windows10 Pro, version 1511,10586" is checked?
I do agree Lady that many people don't watch what is going on with their system and let things happen or choose them to happen not knowing what they are doing. Yes, Microsoft just loves those kinds of customers.
Any information about computing is only a few ticks away on the internet if one wants to learn.
Those people don't seem to have a problem finding and using FaceBook, Tweeter ect.
All we can do is give guidance to those that want to learn. If those people just want to poke and go that was their choice.
We can't make people learn and gain knowledge. That is something they will have to choose.
Kind of like buying a new car. One is given a owners manual but no body can make them read it.
I learn new things most every day; only because I choose to.
I PM a member just today to ask some questions on Clean Install. He does more Clean Installs in one week than I do in a year. I wanted to learn and the answers I receive did help me with my questions.
I'm acting on what I learned as we speak.
Why anybody would think they can buy one of the most technical pieces of equipment known to mankind and think their is nothing to learn to operate it properly is be on me.