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Win 10 nagging gets worse.

Jul 4, 2016 9:06AM PDT

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All good here.
Jul 4, 2016 9:28AM PDT

I think the office and home are almost done. We are trying to get all moved up prior to the 29th since it may cost after that.

We pulled a few old desktops out and I was surprised that we found new homes for them after we installed Windows 10. The new owners were happy about this. They didn't want them when it was running old Windows 7.

It's a weird weird world.

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It's the following update
Jul 4, 2016 10:00AM PDT
KB3173040

Check your optional updates and hide this one of you see it. I've seen it and done just this with my own PC and with my wife's laptop. If you've got the pro version, you can stop the whole process with a simple group policy change. About the only thing you can't do is keep MS from trying of offer it through the Windows update process but, after a year of this, there's plenty of information out there that there's almost no excuse for the diligent to be tricked into accidentally installing this.
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Already on Win 10 Steven.
Jul 4, 2016 10:10AM PDT

I just posted the link as an FYI for folk on Win7&8.
Dafydd.

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Good for you
Jul 4, 2016 10:36AM PDT

Then you can keep people abreast of what's good and what's not. I suspect that I'll eventually end up with a Windows 10 PC but it won't be on the nearly 7 year old rig I have now. I'll pay for the OS when that time comes rather than let MS put a vending machine in my house today. Happy

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All in on 10.
Jul 4, 2016 10:31AM PDT

Not staying with prior versions now. Any issue I had, has been addressed so we are moving up.

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What vending machine?
Jul 4, 2016 10:40AM PDT

I'm not seeing the vending machine issue here. There are folk that can't stand having to work a little to toss out the Office nag along with the other things. Here that took one google and a minute to toss it.

But as I wrote, some folk can't stand to do the work.

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All in on 10
Jul 4, 2016 12:40PM PDT

I just upgraded my 4th laptop today with absolutely no problems.
one of the laptops I previously updated only had 1 gb of mem and had win95 so you know how old that machine was. It is running very well, slow but with no problems.
I have also upgraded 3 desktops with no problems. I did make sure on all of them that they had all updates applied and drivers available.

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Yup
Jul 6, 2016 9:30AM PDT

If your a w7/8 user and don't want w10 it's a constant fight with winupd.

I've taken the belt+suspenders approach and used 'never10'.

So far I have not been pestered with nag screens or had msft download any w10 files to my machine.