Has January 14, 2020, arrived early????

Berton

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Surprise!! I was updating a Win7 HE computer this morning and had to leave for an appointment while it was working. When I got back 3 hours later imagine my surprise when the update had turned into an Upgrade to Win10 without any interaction on the user's part, no one home but my 2 dogs. I was trying to decide if or when I wanted to put Win10 on it yet.
 

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Hi Berton,
Not that I'm aware of! :D Cold enough here in SE Mich.

Haven't had that happen yet!
You can go back to win 7 if you wish
Start menu > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. “Go back to Windows 7
Bill
 

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I decided to cancel that update, clone the HDD, change the drive and test the clone, seems to be fine. Now I'll use the downloaded Win10 to do a clean install. Part of my decision is to also change the case, previous owner did some damage to this one. Getting freebies brings some little bit of risk.
 

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that's why Never10 needs to be used to prevent unexpected or unwanted upgrades from Win7 to Win10
and download & install the KB3184143 update to also remove some of the GWX stuff - never use Win7 without doing these things
 

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