KB3035583 Reappeared After Being Hidden

Callender, have you looked into this?
Windows registry

Important Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.

To suppress this offer through the registry, specify the following registry value:

Subkey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
DWORD value: DisableOSUpgrade = 1

Callender said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Now tell me where the hell is "Turn off the upgrade to the latest version"? Still wondering why I got frustrated?

As far as I know it is KB3083710 that adds this feature to Group Policy Editor. It is a Windows Update Client Upgrade. Note: Does not work in Windows 7 Home Premium.

Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3083710) replaces the following updates:

Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2990214)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2990214)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3050265)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3065987)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3075851)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3083324)

Link - Use IE to visit:

https://catalog.update.microsoft.com...px?q=KB3083710

KB3083710 is the October update to the Windows Update client. The ability to use this GPO setting was added in July 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3065987

That GPO setting has been in all subsequent updates to the Windows Update client. Here is an install with virtually no other updates applied:



When you enable that option, it changes one thing in the registry:

Code:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{8BBD6212-1487-43B7-84C9-53FB0CDF551B}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\DisableOSUpgrade

As you noted, this does not help on certain versions of Windows. However, it is not because those versions lack the user interface (gpedit) to make the changes to the registry. It is because some mechanism (process/app) is missing from "lower versions" of Windows. Some (all?) policy settings under the Group Policy Objects structure are ignored when that mechanism is missing.

That is why I made post #18 in this tread. It uses the same "DisableOSUpgrade" value name, but in an area that all versions of Windows should obey.

Process Monitor only showed one area of the registry being changed.



I find it odd that a change to the Computer Configuration policies was written to the HKCU hive. After logging off and logging back in, that Group Policy Objects key quoted in my last post is no longer under the HKCU hive*. I guess that some process applied it somewhere in the HKLM hive. Fortunately for me, I'm not interested in this enough to spend any more time on it

*or maybe I'm too tired to see straight.

UsernameIssues, is Sysinternals a free app?

I'm getting tired from this too!

As far as I know, all of these are free:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../bb795533.aspx

Sysinternals was purchased by Microsoft years ago... but kept the name Sysinternals.

Thank you. More tools, I like tools.

UsernameIssues, thank you for sharing that. Got the whole suite. I was also able to find a download for the entire administrators manual for those tools. Super stuff.

I am wondering what happened to LadyFitz?