Win 10 Upgrade Updates - List?


  1. Posts : 512
    Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
       #1

    Win 10 Upgrade Updates - List?


    Is there a list of these annoying updates? If so, they should be sticky'd so that they can be avoided on clean installs. How many of them exist?

    Regards
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  2. scr
    Posts : 366
    1. Windows 7 Home Premium sp1 - 64bit 2. Windows 7 Pro sp1 - 64bit
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    See Brinks solution below.
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  3. Posts : 72,058
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #3

    tjg79 said:
    Is there a list of these annoying updates? If so, they should be sticky'd so that they can be avoided on clean installs. How many of them exist?

    Regards
    Hello Tjg, :)

    No need to bother with all that. You can just disable the "Upgrade to Windows 10" update" using an option in the tutorial below instead.

    Upgrade to Windows 10 Update - Enable or Disable in Windows 7 or 8.1 - Windows 10 Forums
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  4. scr
    Posts : 366
    1. Windows 7 Home Premium sp1 - 64bit 2. Windows 7 Pro sp1 - 64bit
       #4

    Now that seems a whole lot easier. Thanks Brink
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  5. Posts : 246
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP1
       #5

    Just want to make sure of things. If I don't have this key in my registry, then I'm safe from GWX?

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
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  6. Posts : 72,058
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #6

    Hello Jamis, :)

    Sorry, but no. That key is for the group policy, and is only added when you disable the "Upgrade to Windows 10" update using the tutorial above.
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  7. Posts : 49
    Win 7 Professional 64 (Main PC)/Win 7 Home Premium 32 (Laptop)
       #7

    I used to keep a list of W10 related updates (mostly obtained from these forums) to avoid when doing clean installs of Windows 7 but it eventually became difficult to keep track of them all - especially when MS keeps creating new ones and re-issuing older ones.

    What I do now after a clean install of Windows 7 (with SP1 included) is this:

    * Install all security updates (excluding .NET updates).
    * Install all .NET security updates.
    * Update to latest version of Internet Explorer.
    * Install security updates for IE and any others which may appear.
    * Install all recommended and optional updates up until the end of 2014 (i.e. don't install any from the start of 2015 onwards).
    * Carefully check out each recommended/optional update from the start of 2015 then untick and hide any 'undesirables' (which is most of them).
    * Keep going back and checking Windows Update until you have all of the security updates and the recommended/optional ones that you want.
    * Set Windows Update to "Never check for updates" and just turn it on and check each Patch Tuesday.
    * Install GWX Control Panel to (hopefully) stop any attempts by MS to 'sneak' W10 onto your system.

    And, I always do an image of my system before installing any updates. In fact, I now wait a few days after Patch Tuesday before checking and installing any updates in case there's any problems with 'bad' updates.

    I also run Windows 7 from a Standard user account with Windows Update only allowed to install updates from Administrator accounts ("Allow all users to install updates" unticked in WU settings).
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