[Silencer]

A Demon Llama!, on 17 October 2015 - 10:44 PM, said:

This fucken Get windows 10 app keeps reinstalling itself even after being hidden and I had to remove it 4 times this week. Today I did some other registry tweaks following some guide as well. This is infruiating and disgusting how Microsoft is pushing the fucken Win 10. Not only that but I have fucken files downloaded that had to remove for that shit. I have no space on my SSD and its being filled up with forced garbage I do not want.

I hate apple products but Microsoft is seriously pissing me off with this shit and turning me off from Windows.

Did you register for the update? It will only have downloaded the files if you chose to preregister. It's annoying after that as it keeps asking you if you're ready, but if you declined the initial request it should no longer be bugging you...


@HD - hehe.

[A Demon Llama!]

Nope, didn't preregister, so its doesn't "only" do it in those circumstances. By brothers PC also has that shit popping up, which I will need to put a stop to as well.

It shouldn't be bugging me, but it does. That is what makes it so shitty, Microsoft forcing people upgrade.

[worry]

Microsoft does keep adding it to the Important Updates section. So if you have Windows set up for automatic updates, it's gonna keep popping up. You may just have to shut off automatic updates, and even then it will still try to sneak its way in during shutdowns/restarts until you remove it from the list entirely.

[A Demon Llama!]

Removing/hiding it from the list does nothing. It comes back eventually and then somehow installs itself without even being present in the list. Already did it multiple times as I said first post. Am hoping the registry tweaks I added that are supposed to block from those specific updates from overriding everything and installing themselves again will work.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I remember I had to open services.msc and just set the GWX service to disabled, and I never saw it again. Perhaps that still works?

[worry]

A Demon Llama!, on 18 October 2015 - 02:30 AM, said:

Removing/hiding it from the list does nothing. It comes back eventually and then somehow installs itself without even being present in the list. Already did it multiple times as I said first post. Am hoping the registry tweaks I added that are supposed to block from those specific updates from overriding everything and installing themselves again will work.

Hmm, yah, for you obviously you wanna go the whole hog. But I mean for your brother you wanna just give the "ok" level solution. He's gotta sink or swim on his own as nature intended, ultimately.

[Silencer]

A Demon Llama!, on 18 October 2015 - 01:49 AM, said:

Nope, didn't preregister, so its doesn't "only" do it in those circumstances. By brothers PC also has that shit popping up, which I will need to put a stop to as well.

It shouldn't be bugging me, but it does. That is what makes it so shitty, Microsoft forcing people upgrade.

Huh, that's stupid of them, and I'd be annoyed to. My non-10 laptop isn't doing that, and I hadn't heard of any complaints until I went searching today after your post. Seems like MS is still being arrogant douches. So surprising /end sarcasm

[Gredfallan Ale]

I just googled it, too, seems to be quite a common problem. Most speak of the annoying system tray announcements and icons, but the Windows Update is also frequently mentioned. It triggered this statement by a Microsoft spokeswoman:

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As part of our effort to bring Windows 10 to existing genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers, the Windows 10 upgrade may appear as an optional update in the Windows Update (WU) control panel. This is an intuitive and trusted place people go to find Recommended and Optional updates to Windows. In the recent Windows update, this option was checked as default; this was a mistake and we are removing Windows 10 from Windows Update for users that have not reserved a copy of Windows 10.

That's really optional, then, if you preselect an optional update and know most of your users will have the default setting of "Automatically install updates". Well, they claim to have fixed the Windows Update behaviour, but given your story, that doesn't seem true, at the least not for all users.

This post has been edited by Gredfallan Ale: 18 October 2015 - 07:58 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

I keep getting the window popping up but then I did ask for it and haven't installed it yet cos I haven't backed up all my crap yet.

[Mentalist]

My old Win 7 lappy (well, old is relative- I got it in 2010) randomly got "corrupted" a few months back, after installing installing fresh portion of Windows updates-some random issue meant my sound was gone (which was a big deal, since I mostly used it for Winamp).
When I tried scanning the disc to fix errors, I discovered that the "auto-scheduler"-the exe that's responsible for scheduling disk check upon reboo was one of the "corrupted" files. I tried a factory reset and ran into an endless update loop. Eventually, I used a Win 7 disk from my desktop to re-install 7 home edition. Thankfully I had a product key on the bottom of the laptop, but the non-factory edition was, naturally, missing a bunch of drivers, including the wi-fi adapter, which I had to hunt for on the Toshiba website.

I couldn't help but suspect that this may have been a "hint" from M$oft that I should upgrade to 10.

[Vengeance]

Tiste Simeon, on 18 October 2015 - 08:09 AM, said:

I keep getting the window popping up but then I did ask for it and haven't installed it yet cos I haven't backed up all my crap yet.

How much porn do you have saved on your hard drive?

[Gnaw]

Vengeance, on 19 October 2015 - 05:12 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 18 October 2015 - 08:09 AM, said:

I keep getting the window popping up but then I did ask for it and haven't installed it yet cos I haven't backed up all my crap yet.

How much porn do you have saved on your hard drive?

Who saves porn on the local drive? that's what the 6 bay NAS is for.

[Macros]

I don't get this.
If its important its already backed up.
If its not important who gives a fuck, just update

[worry]

Who backs up their most important files?! If they're so important, why would you show such distrust? That's like making your spouse sign a prenup. It's the less important things you need to worry about, because they're the most tenuous, the things that might disappear from your life the most readily. If a file is really that important, it would never leave you in the first place.

[Gredfallan Ale]

worry, on 19 October 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

Who backs up their most important files?! If they're so important, why would you show such distrust? That's like making your spouse sign a prenup. It's the less important things you need to worry about, because they're the most tenuous, the things that might disappear from your life the most readily. If a file is really that important, it would never leave you in the first place.

Nah, I always backup the most important stuff. Girlfriend, backup girlfriend. Dinner, backup dinner. When I'm having a kid, I'm planning on having a backup kid as well, you never know what might go wrong.

[Tiste Simeon]

I'm just saving docs pics and music in a separate place. My pics took about 24 hours to copy. Haven't done music yet.

[A Demon Llama!]

My excuse for not backing up is I don't have the storage space for my selfies. I have one dick pic.

[Tiste Simeon]

A Demon Llama!, on 19 October 2015 - 11:36 PM, said:

My excuse for not backing up is I don't have the storage space for my selfies. I have one dick pic.

Needed such a powerful camera with a ridiculously huge lens just to zoom in that far?

[HiddenOne]

Gredfallan Ale, on 19 October 2015 - 09:31 PM, said:

worry, on 19 October 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

Who backs up their most important files?! If they're so important, why would you show such distrust? That's like making your spouse sign a prenup. It's the less important things you need to worry about, because they're the most tenuous, the things that might disappear from your life the most readily. If a file is really that important, it would never leave you in the first place.

Nah, I always backup the most important stuff. Girlfriend, backup girlfriend. Dinner, backup dinner. When I'm having a kid, I'm planning on having a backup kid as well, you never know what might go wrong.

The backup girlfriend will yield a backup kid, never fear.

[A Demon Llama!]

Tiste Simeon, on 20 October 2015 - 12:57 PM, said:

A Demon Llama!, on 19 October 2015 - 11:36 PM, said:

My excuse for not backing up is I don't have the storage space for my selfies. I have one dick pic.

Needed such a powerful camera with a ridiculously huge lens just to zoom in that far?

Yeah...well... I HAD SEX WITH YOUR WIFE!