Solved Remove "Get Windows 10" from taskbar

[joey_tbf]

All of a sudden this appeared on my taskbar.

How can i get rid of it? There doesn't seem a way to get rid of it. I tried right-clicking it.


Has anyone else recieved this yet?


When i click on the icon, i recieve this pop-up about upgrading

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See: Get Windows 10 Icon - Remove from Taskbar in Windows 7 and 8.1 - Windows 10 Forums

 

[GokAy]

First time I am seeing the nag screen. Is it here already?

Did you check Task Manager? Maybe you can end it there.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It seems a wee bit premature. I wonder if it is malware.

 

[sayheykid]

This just happened to me as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Gary]

Probably will see allot of this in the coming months

 

[loosus456]

Whoa. Surely, they are not doing this already? And if this is legit, Microsoft is really doing this in a bizarrely, borderline-spyware way.

 

[sayheykid]

It seems that maybe it was part of a recommended update, which created the folder Windows/System32/GWX.

 

[carwiz]

I didn't install those updates but you might try removing it from the Notifications.

Right click the Task Bar, select Properties.
On the Taskbar tab, look for Notification area and click on Customize.
Scroll through the notification and see if W10 shows up. If it does, give it a no-show.

 

[loosus456]

Can you see what program/process is making the window appear using Task Manager?

 

[sayheykid]

Can you see what program/process is making the window appear using Task Manager?

From my task manager, it looks like it's called GWX.exe

 

[rooscoota]

maybe have a look here, I uninstalled all the relevant updates and haven't seen anything, actually let me do more things like "add search providers" that I couldn't before uninstall.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...ndows-10-upgrade-updates-windows-7-8-a-6.html

Get Windows 10 Icon - Remove from Taskbar in Windows 7 and 8.1 - Windows 10 Forums

 

[loosus456]

Well, if it's not legit, they definitely did their homework, huh?

 

[sayheykid]

It seems it might have been update KB3035583.

 

[rooscoota]

It seems it might have been update KB3035583.

that's a particular one that had to go, refer to the list in the link to the thread I posted

 

[sayheykid]

Yup. Uninstalling KB3035583 did the trick.

Thanks for the assistance.

 

[Gary]

I just got one of those.

 

[loosus456]

So it is definitely legit then? So Microsoft is indeed already pushing out the notification to Windows 7 users?

 

[sayheykid]

So it is definitely legit then? So Microsoft is indeed already pushing out the notification to Windows 7 users?

It would appear so. As soon as I rebooted it tried to get me to download it again before I hid the notification.

 

[loosus456]

That's nuts. I guess I'm a little surprised that (a) it really happened because in the back of my mind I never really thought Microsoft would do nagware and (b) even if they were going to do it, I figured we wouldn't see it until later in the year.

 

[carwiz]

It's just a Reservation. I think MS wants to get a head-count of who's interested. It will help with "traffic control" when the actual time comes. I suspect there's a download manager to handle interruptions built in with the updates too. I know the TP downloads would range from two to 12 hours for me depending on when I started. (Time of day)

Surely you guys knew this was coming from the description of the updates.