How to stop the Windows 10 Upgrade from downloading on your system

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

There will be many people very excited about the prospect of upgrading to Windows 10 on the 29th of July.

At the same time there are other users on Windows 7 and 8.1 who do not want any part of the upgrade for a variety of reasons.

Microsoft has confirmed that the new OS, currently in its final stages of development, will be made available for download/install on eligible systems on 29 July 2015.

In preparation for that, back in April, Microsoft released an optional update (KB3035583) for Windows 7 and 8.1 that is called the Get Windows 10 app. It provides the prompt that started appearing on users systems (Windows 7 and 8.1) yesterday and gives you the option to reserve your copy of Windows 10.

But what if you are one of those users with zero interest in the Windows 10 upgrade?

Well, KB3035583 was an optional update so if you avoid installing those in general then you have no further action to take.

If however, you did install that update then it can be uninstalled through Windows Update.




Open up Windows Update and click on View update history.




Click on Installed Updates.




In the search box in the upper right corner type in kb3035583. If the update is on your system it will show up in the results.




Click on the KB3035583 entry in the search results and you will be asked if you are sure you want to uninstall it. Click Yes to remove it.

The system may need to be restarted to complete the removal.

If you do not want to see the update any more be sure to hide it by right clicking on the KB3035583 listing in Windows Update under Optional Updates and selecting Hide this update.

Source : http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-stop-windows-10-upgrade-downloading-your-system

 

[Plastic Nev]

Thanks for finding that information Cindy, for just about everyone who is running Windows 7 they will have found the rather annoying icon on the bottom task bar to the right seemingly from today or at the earliest yesterday.
I uninstalled the update, then hid it, and the annoying icon has gone with it.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

You're welcome, Nev. I'm glad that I found it.

I plan on upgrading all but one of my Windows 7 and 8.1 machines.

 

[Mommalina]

Who's on first?

"" ..... effect on some of the
stubborn W98, W XP, and W7 users.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Remember Al, Lina? He went from Windows 98 straight to Vista.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

It seems that people all over the internet are asking what the Windows 10 upgrade icon in the taskbar is all about today.

 

[AWS]

All the computers at work got the icon either sometime yesterday or today. I was swamped with questions. I sent out a shell script to uninstall the update. I plan on upgrading everyone at some point in time, but, not in July.

 

[DSTM]

Thanks for finding that information Cindy, for just about everyone who is running Windows 7 they will have found the rather annoying icon on the bottom task bar to the right seemingly from today or at the earliest yesterday.
I uninstalled the update, then hid it, and the annoying icon has gone with it.

I think that is very intrusive of MS to control my desktop without giving an easy opt out.

 

[Mommalina]

I think that is very intrusive of MS to control my desktop without giving an easy opt out.

Since, according to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, corporations are people,
can we sue Microsoft for invasion of privacy?