Microsoft Silently Re-Enables Windows 10 Upgrades on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs

[HandyPAF]

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Microsoft's getting ready for the more aggressive upgrade phase of Windows 10 – when the new OS will show up first as optional, and then as recommended download in Windows Update – so the company has recently made some changes to Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs to make sure that more computers get it.

 

Basically, settings on PCs that were previously configured not to receive the upgrade to Windows 10 have been reset and it appears that one of the updates that Microsoft deployed on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs keeps checking every day to make sure that no other changes are made to this behavior.

 

Update being re-offered several times

 

The information comes from the creator of GWX Control Panel, an application developed to block the upgrade to Windows 10.

 

"Over Thanksgiving weekend I started getting reports that the Windows Update 'AllowOSUpgrade' setting was getting flipped back on on a number of peoples' PCs, and it keeps re-setting itself at least once a day if they switch it back off," Josh Mayfield was quoted as saying by CW.

 

In other words Windows 7 and 8.1 computers can now easily receive the upgrade to Windows 10 and for the moment, there doesn't seem to be any other way to stop this from happening than to manually refuse the new OS.

 

It's all being made through recently-shipped Windows updates for older versions, and according to Mayfield, the very same update is being re-offered again and again.

"Microsoft has released this update several times," Mayfield continued. "It doesn't change the name of the update, but every version is new, with new binary files."

 

Starting in early 2016, seeing Windows 10 in Windows Update will be quite normal, as Microsoft changes its strategy and makes it an optional update for everyone. At a later time, the upgrade will become “recommended update,” so it becomes harder to avoid installing Windows 10 if you really wish to keep your computer fully patched.

 

 

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-silently-re-enables-windows-10-upgrades-on-windows-7-and-8-1-pcs-report-497234.shtml

[steven36]

One time before I seen the update in urgent  updates,  I just hide the update and it  went away every one complained so they put it back in optional updates so far .  I have auto updates turned off  and check each one before i apply them its always the same update that comes back Windows update manger and you just hide it and it goes away tell next time. changing the hash don’t make it harder to hide it just makes it harder for 3rd party software to find  it because it don’t have a human brain . LOL

[vibranium]

So far so good here. Computers that are:

1.  immunized against the Windows 10 update according to instructions in KB3080351

2. KB3035583 update is uninstalled AND hidden

 

do not get hit by the Windows 10 nag screen.

[stylemessiah]

If the AllowOSUpgrade is now being toggled off then welcome ladies and gentlemen to the end of Microsoft

 

Every IT admin let alone home user who knows to set this will now wanting blood

[straycat19]

If KB3080351 is correct then you can block the upgrade by downloading and installing one of the updates and configuring group policy.  Most people on this forum would probably have no problem with that, but for the average user they are left out in the cold.  The problem is most home users will just go ahead and let it be done figuring they don't have a choice.

[steven36]

2 hours ago, straycat19 said:

If KB3080351 is correct then you can block the upgrade by downloading and installing one of the updates and configuring group policy.  Most people on this forum would probably have no problem with that, but for the average user they are left out in the cold.  The problem is most home users will just go ahead and let it be done figuring they don't have a choice.

Those that update today better watch out  you better always be watching you never know what sneaky  M$  may do.

Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1

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After previously apologizing on October 16th for forcing Windows 10 on some users of Windows 7 and 8.1 via the Windows Update mechanism, Microsoft disabled the default update option for Windows 10, so that users eligible for the new OS would have to opt in manually. Gregg Keizer at ComputerWorld reports today that Microsoft will soon switch the default option back to "on" again, possibly as early as tomorrow's "Patch Tuesday" update. Users who do not want Windows 10 are strongly advised to turn off automatic updating to avoid accidentally installing the OS.

Most of the time I don’t turn windows on tell days or weeks latter tell after the updates no ways lol , and don’t have auto updates on.  I just set over here on Linux  happy as a J Bird they don’t  control me at all .