How to remove Windows 10 upgrade updates in Windows 7 and 8

[newpgm]

No problem that's what we're here for
But if other users are on the same machine or you let others use your user account you'd run into issues like this
There should only be 1 administrator account on a single machine
Change their to a standard account
Uncheck the box in your account to let All users update windows on the previous tutorial instructions

The girl friend has the admin password, she likes to install things. She's fairly computer knowledgeable. This is the only desktop & so we share it.

Honestly I think my frustration has more to do with the steering column in pieces on the garage floor. I just flipped a wig. If could go back an hour would take a breath & chill with the pooch for while.

I've had MS install updates and change my update settings every once in a great while, maybe twice every three years. I'm the only user on my machines.

Hmm...very interesting.

thanks again

 

[ThrashZone]

It's best in relationship to only share certain items
A computer is not one of them

 

[lehnerus2000]

Stealth Updates

Hi,
Is there a big deal with leaving it unhidden ?
If you don't want it don't download and install it
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2797-windows-update-settings-change.html

The trouble is it's part of a pattern that MS started with the W8 series.
They are trying to trick users into upgrading to W10.

MS are counting on most users not having backup images to be able to restore W7 and thus they will be "forced" to accept W10.

It's just the same as the Local Account option being hidden during the W10 installation process, so that people think they have no choice but to use an Online Account.

OK - someone changed the settings to Install Updates Automatically, NOT ME.

There are "stealth" updates and "Windows Update" updates that change your update preferences.

I received a "stealth" update for Windows Update last year.
I hadn't downloaded any updates (my preference was set to "Notify").

I started my PC and noticed a message about Registry changes.
I only see that message when Windows Update has changed.

Sure enough when I checked my update preferences they had changed to "Automatic".

 

[groze]

lehnerus2000

That usually happens when windows update updates itself and it is the only update that will be auto installed on windows 7 even if you have different option selected or even turned off. Source my experience.

 

[ThrashZone]

I've never seen my setting be changed it's always been the same throughout my 7 tour
Always been manual every since windows live essentials 2011 busted out and well that didn't go well
I've been reviewing updates every since.

 

[gregrocker]

We need to wait and see. All I've seen is caution from the Windows Ten Team and learning from the 8 debacle.

They have been clearly warned by MVPs that they could self-impose a debacle if they push hundreds of millions off Win7 before they're ready. By contrast they didn't even talk to MVPs for Windows 8. I believe they've learned those lessons.

That said I see nothing different here and don't expect to have the 7 Support workload or our reputation as all-time top tech forums decline for the foreseeable future. I'm using a mix of both OSes on my devices. No friends or family are asking for 10 yet. There is as much clamor seen to avoid it. That is because of Windows 7!

 

[ThrashZone]

I wasn't all that enthusiastic after reading the revised terms of usage and privacy
Matter of fact that was the final straw.
I was really going to buy it at 140.us
Now not.
They seem to have taken Onedrive terms and applied them to the entire os.

 

[Powell41]

Every time I restart my computer I have to check my update settings because every so often it switches from "do not check for updates" to "download and install updates automatically."

 

[gregrocker]

There is really no reason to avoid the automatic update setting. In fact I consider it a best practice to have it set there because without a service pack 2 Windows 7 relies on many patches queued under important and optional updates in order for hardware software and the OS to run correctly.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

There is really no reason to avoid the automatic update setting. In fact I consider it a best practice to have it set there because without a service pack 2 Windows 7 relies on many patches queued under important and optional updates in order for hardware software and the OS to run correctly.

Apparently, you were not one of the many who have had their computers bricked or otherwise adversely affected by a bad update, something that has been documented here (and I'm not referring to the Win 10 related updates). MS has issued several of the this year. Percentagewise, the number of people burned by faulty updates is extremely small, probably less than 1%, but that still amounts to an extremely large number of people. While I haven't been burned by an update, enough have been to justify my waiting until Saturday to download and install updates. Usually, by then, MS has pulled any bad updates and often have issued a corrected one. If the bad update is still being offered, I will, at least, know by then to not download and install it.

 

[Powell41]

I check my updates at least once a week.
As for leaving automatic updating on: it's not that I'm worried about a bad update, that's easy to fix. My problem with it is that for some reason Windows seems to decide to update just when some another program is updating and my whole system goes nuts. This was a weekly occurrence when I was also running Norton (We now control all your computer functions whether you like it or not) AV. It happens occasionally now with Adobe when I have failed to check my download settings after a restart.
And as a final point: Nothing, and I mean nothing gets installed on this computer without my approval and anything that does sneak past (mainly search engines and ASK who change my home page) get rooted out from every corner, including the registry which I check regularly to ensure that none of them have slithered back in.

 

[lehnerus2000]

lehnerus2000

That usually happens when windows update updates itself and it is the only update that will be auto installed on windows 7 even if you have different option selected or even turned off. Source my experience.

Indeed.

 

[newpgm]

While I haven't been burned by an update, enough have been to justify my waiting until Saturday to download and install updates. Usually, by then, MS has pulled any bad updates and often have issued a corrected one. If the bad update is still being offered, I will, at least, know by then to not download and install it.

Sound advice - think I'll adopt that practive

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep recommended and most of all Optional updates usually cause more issues than they are suppose to fix,
And with the proper update setting Recommended updates are really Optional.

Then you get to the Important update issues.
I see no need for any remote desktop stuff or font/ time zone updates for languages and regions that do not apply to the U.S.A.
And I sure don't need any future os updates

All I need are security patches for the os and office and that is it.

 

[bawldiggle]

I think MS are messing with my head :shock:

While investigating "thumbs.db" files I came across Just what is thumbs.db? a MS web page.
- in the top left corner of the web page is "Announcements [1]"



When I brushed past the "Announcement" link (did not have to click) this message dropped down



Panic stations !
- all my updates are manual. No automatic updates, I have been burnt too often.
- urgently composed a new thread for sevenforums ... concerned that something had got past me during a Windows update.
- "can MS access my system without invitation and know what is on my Windows PC?"

As a paranoid skeptic ... I wonder if MS are messing with my head ?
- copied the web page URL to my pure Linux machine ... and guess what ?


This I have got to see :roflmao:

It is 2300hrs here (Australia) on the 30th July 2015
- I want to see how MS are going to replace Linux Mint with Win10
- almost 24 hours after 29th and Mint is still there

BS Radar is armed and ready :devil:

 

[bawldiggle]

How do I hide updates on "Installed Updates" --> Uninstall updates ... list ?

All I can find is "Uninstall" ... including on the right-click context menu.

Thank you
(still paranoid)

 

[lehnerus2000]

I think that you can only hide updates that haven't been installed yet.

You need to:

• Make sure that Windows Update isn't set to "Automatic"
• Uninstall any updates you don't want
• Hide them when they reappear in your Update list (Right click on the update in the list and choose "Hide update")

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[gregrocker]

i know no one personally who has had problems with Updates. We see more here than anyone because this is where they come in the very rare case they malfunction.

I feel a little bit punked by the Win10 scaremongering after spending an afternoon rooting GWX out of my Uncles PC when it turned out performance problems had nothing to do with it.

So I'm sticking with advising that if you don't have all Important and Optional Updates (besides Bing) then you don't have Win7. It's appalling to still see no SP1 on PC's where users were given XPired advice to turn off Updates or manually choose which "sound right." :huh:

 

[groze]

i know no one personally who has had problems with Updates. We see more here than anyone because this is where they come in the very rare case they malfunction.

I feel a little bit punked by the Win10 scaremongering after spending an afternoon rooting GWX out of my Uncles PC when it turned out performance problems had nothing to do with it.

So I'm sticking with advising that if you don't have all Important and Optional Updates (besides Bing) then you don't have Win7. It's appalling to still see no SP1 on PC's where users were given XPired advice to turn off Updates or manually choose which "sound right." :huh:

gregrocker, you might want to add any update relating to windows 10. I am triple booting now legally, so far without any issues. Just working on installing my programs for windows 10.

 

[gregrocker]

I just don't see performance of Win7 (which I'll defend to the death) impacted at all by those GWX updates. Do you?