I have 6 people that are not power users but have called me as since the Win 10 offer and updates, their machines are either freezing or shutting down in the middle of looking at emails, or just browsing the internet. All these calls have come within a two day timeframe and the only thing I can think of is that these updates have bugs or are causing the crashes. Anyone have any information on this??
Agreed. The updates may cause a System File Checker scan to show corrupted system files, but they should not have any bearing on looking at emails, browsing the internet or causing machines to freeze/shut down. This sounds more like malware.
I wonder if the KB3021917 Update to Windows 7 SP1 for performance improvements does any harm to the system for those that haven't Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) turned on on their machine.
Two of those .dll are already existing since 2009/07/14:
Wdi.dll & Perftrack.dll (v6.1.7600.16385)
This one is an add: Powertracker.dll
Last edited by NoN; 15 Jul 2015 at 04:20.
You never know about telemetry sending updates
I'm not seeking out win-10 upgrade so I hide it seems to still be listed in the hidden updates so it hasn't disappeared from the list,
I'm also not a participant ceip either.
I followed the tutorial and was able to stop the Windows 10 icon. But each time I try to update my Windows 7, it starts downloading Windows 10. How can I stop this?
Begin by unplugging your modem/router so there is no Internet access. Boot up and poke around with utilities that show Startup apps/services. Locate suspect and turn it off. Restart modem/router and reboot PC. Unplug modem cable if PC still tries to update.
Lather, rinse and repeat until it stops trying to update.
Regards,
GEWB
Hi,
I am duel booting with Win7 & Win10, so I don't want to upgrade on my WIN 7.
I found this on a non-PC forum and it seemed fit the bill. Comments or clarification from peeps here that know what they are doing, as opposed to me a mere end user.
Step 1: take ownership of the GWX folder
Go to /Windows/System32/GWX. Right-click, Properties. Then, go to the Security tab, click Advanced. Under the Owner, click on Edit. Select your account rather than whatever crap Microsoft has preselected. Make sure you tick the box that says subfolders and whatnot. Apply the change. Ignore the warnings and prompts.
Step 2: change folder permissions
On the right tab, click Edit. Then, select your user. Change the permissions to Full Control, and apply. Then, rename the GWX folder to something like GWX.old. And just in case, inside this folder, you may also want to consider renaming the four executable files. Just use any which extension to cripple their executability. Problem solved. I simply deleted the GWX folder but if you’re not confident, rename it. It does the same thing.
Step 3: delete scheduled tasks
Fire up “Regedit” and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Taskcache\Tasks. What you’ll be faced with is a long list of CLSID entries. These appear to be random (but they’re not and the reason is long and complicated) and the data you want is in the right hand side pane. Go to the Edit menu and click “Find”, type “gwx” (without the quotes) and hit “Find Next”. The application will highlight the first entry, where you’ll see “GWX” under the key-value pair “Path”. On the left pane, locate the hive (folder) that this entry resides in (easy, it should already be highlighted) and export it (right click it) and then right-click delete it. There will by now be eleven entries. You’ll know you’ve got them all when you jump to a new section under .\\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\Setup. There you will be dropped into a hive with two entries: GWC and GWXTriggers. Export both of these and delete them. Launch Task Scheduler and make sure it runs with no errors.
Step 4: disable automatic Windows Update
Now you’ve killed GWX, you need to make sure Microsoft isn’t about to work around it and force a new kernel on you without your informed consent. Start the Windows Update tool from the control panel and check, it should now be disabled. If it isn’t, go into the settings and adjust to disable automatic updates. You can now either leave WU off and manually install updates after checking them for safety or leave WU altogether and risk missing an actual important update which may or may not contain a plug for yet another Microsoft security hole.
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