Your PC Will Automatically Download Windows 10 This Week

CarlSD · 03 Feb 2016

Oh, I hope the above image isn't considered offensive on this forum. If so, I apologize (I've done a search and found the 's' word used quite a few times in the past).

While I'm still here:

Microsoft has published a KB article detailing how end-users can control the upgrade prompts and disable them in the future

Really? Why should Windows 7/8 users have to go to all the trouble of researching something that shouldn't be necessary to start with?

As others have already pointed out (many times)... NO means NO! There should have been a one off prompt to upgrade and if we say NO, that should be the end of it.

By all means, MS can advertise Windows 10 as much as they like - even in Windows Update. But, people should not have to put up with the sort of tactics (which is almost like professional malware) that MS is using to try and get as many people onto W10 as possible.

4wd · 03 Feb 2016

CarlSD said:

NO means NO!

Yes, MS not able to understand the difference between rape and consent.

whs · 04 Feb 2016

That's an easy one - just change the update settings.

FerchogtX · 04 Feb 2016

Not mine... Windows Update is completely disabled, not even the service is running UNLESS I need to install a critical/security patch.

Take that, MS...

jonnyhillow · 04 Feb 2016

EmmaRoyd said:

my internet is pay as you go, on a dongle, so i have limited usage. i topped it up today, so what if i had not read that article and 7 downloaded win 10 and ate up all my usage in 1 go, or my data cap ran out x way into the download, would it keep trying to redownload when i top it up wondering why the hell my data usage ran out so quick? MY data usage, limited, that I pay for, would m/s pay me for that? i doubt it and good luck trying to get it off them.

Now thats funny , i really needed a good laugh this morning, thanks for that .

whs · 04 Feb 2016

EmmaRoyd said:

whs said:

That's an easy one - just change the update settings.

its easy, but only when you know how, and what has happened. many users do not have advanced pc knowledge.

Nah, you don't have to be very advanced. It is relatively easy to find.

Layback Bear · 04 Feb 2016

I just got this on both systems while checking Windows Updates. (80244019)
Haven't changed anything on my systems since the last time I had them booted.
Unless I was sleep computing while I was napping.

Lady Fitzgerald · 04 Feb 2016

whs said:

EmmaRoyd said:

whs said:

That's an easy one - just change the update settings.

its easy, but only when you know how, and what has happened. many users do not have advanced pc knowledge.

Nah, you don't have to be very advanced. It is relatively easy to find.

With your computer club experience, you should know that the vast majority of computer users/owners will not know that, no matter how easy it is. Microsoft is capitalizing on that.

whs · 04 Feb 2016

Maybe you are right. At the club I was amazed how few people (of a total 800) knew anything about computers. The club had degenerated to a social club where picnics were more important than learning something about computers or operating systems.

In fact some of those people complained that my classes were too complicated where I had really broken it down to the easiest pieces and made an extensive hand-out documentation - that of course nobody read. They were to lazy to crank up their grey matter - if there was any. Well, let those brainless hicks smother in their ignorance. For me that is neither here nor there.

Your PC Will Automatically Download Windows 10 This Week

Microsoft shifts Windows 10 to ‘Recommended’ update.