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http://lifehacker.com/how-to-block-windows-10-upgrade-downloads-if-youre-not-...Lifehacker says now that there are SEVERAL "mis-labled" nightly KB sends are now able to fit you up with your white clone outfit that you don't want and didn't ask for. That is a neat new MS trick MS is using now, when they RE-RE-RE-SEND their endless chain of repeat repeat repeat KBs they add some extra code to them to be carried along with the repeat repeat repeat nightly nonsense. Ain't that guileful, sneaky and conniving of them ????? " Microsoft is downloading it anyway. Here’s how to block it.For the Windows 10 update, Microsoft has chosen to automatically start the download process, regardless of whether you’ve confirmed you want the update. This makes some sense for those who use automatic updates normally, except Windows 10 can be huge. As in multiple gigabytes huge. If you have a capped data connection, or simply don’t want to bother downloading it right now, Ghacks has laid out some steps for blocking the updates:
Search for “Programs and features” in the Start Menu.
Select “view installed updates” on the left side of the window.
Windows 7: locate the following updates: 3035583, 2952664, 3021917
Windows 8: locate the following updates: 3035583, 2976978
Right-click each update select uninstall.
Select Restart Later when the prompt appears.
Restart when you’ve finished these steps for each update.
Once you’ve finished this process, you’ll need to block the updates from being installed again. To do that, follow these steps:
Search for Windows Update in the Start Menu.
Choose “check for updates.” Windows should find the same updates from above.
Click on “important update is available.”
Right-click each of the updates above and select “Hide update.”
This should prevent your computer from downloading those updates again in the future. Keep in mind that if you want to upgrade to Windows 10 later, you’ll need to unblock these updates. However, this should help prevent Microsoft from downloading several gigabytes of data to your machine when you’re not ready for it."Normal Win 7 users who did not plan on upgrading are NOW PAYING TO PUSH 6 GIG UPDATES ALL OVER THE INTERNET -- wonder what that is going to do to their monthly data plan charges ???? ========================================= http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/11/windows-10-update/Now a new issue, this year's crop of Chromekillers are choking out all over the place as their carefully monitored little bitty hard drives are getting overwhelmed by the unplanned re-re-repeated nightly visitors ..... "Today in ‘things we wish Microsoft would ask really, really nicely about before they just went ahead and did it without telling us’, it’s Windows 7 & 8 quietly downloading Windows 10 for you, regardless of whether or not you intend to install it.
But it will download between 3.5GB and 6GB of data, which is bad news for anyone with a download cap, as well as leaving that data sat on your hard drive, which is bad news for anyone with a weeny-teeny SSD. Some ultralite laptops and hybrids have a mere 32GB capacity, so that’s going to sting.
The folder’s also hidden by default, which may leave the unaware flummoxed as to quite where all their space has gone. Go to Folder Options in Windows explorer (alt-f-o is a keyboard shortcut to it), view, then select ‘Show Hidden Files and Folders’ and you should then spot a ‘$Windows.~BT’ folder hanging around the root directory of your main hard drive.
I still don’t know entirely how seriously to take all the privacy issues, but stuff like this just makes me sigh. I’m prepared to ascribe it to over-enthusiasm, but it’s a shame that a good OS keeps raining on its own parade."
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