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earthshine

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3. Here's a simple, once-and-for-all way to block the Windows 10 notifications and forced upgrade.

Reply to Paper Roses (Original post)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:40 PM

Jun 2016

The renowned Steve Gibson of TWIT.TV has created this free mini-program for Win 7/8/8.1 to permanently block Windows 10.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

QED - end of story

Microsoft so loved the spying facilities (called telemetry) built into Windows 10 that last year they backported some of them to Windows 7 and 8 via the Windows updates.

This free program, Spybot Anti-beacon, stops telemetry uploads from W7, W8.1, and W10.

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

Good luck!

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Tried to find answer re Win 10 upgrade, no luck. Please advise: [View all] Paper Roses Jun 2016 OP

As far as I know, on July 29th Microsoft will stop harassing people about Windows 10 steve2470 Jun 2016 #1

I created a file and use "taskkill" to kill the gwx* notifications and popups. woodsprite Jun 2016 #2

Here's a simple, once-and-for-all way to block the Windows 10 notifications and forced upgrade. earthshine Jun 2016 #3

Another vote for the GRC Never10 csziggy Jun 2016 #4

There are 3 or 4 Win 7 updates that trigger it: ucrdem Jun 2016 #5