Enough already: Microsoft pushes Windows nagware patch KB 3035583 for sixth time

[Batu69]

If you don’t want to install Windows 10 just yet, hide the patch -- but run GWX Control Panel to be sure

 

Last night Microsoft sent KB 3035583 down the Automatic Update chute. Again.

 

The patch is listed as recommended, but not a security patch, for Windows 7 and 8.1 systems. Depending on your Windows Update settings (and sometimes, I think, the phase of the moon), the patch will probably appear among your "Important" patches, and probably won't have its box checked. If that's what you see on your PC, KB 3035583 won't install unless you check the box and run Windows Update.

 

As we've seen in the past, though, sometimes those unchecked patches suddenly get checked and Windows Update proceeds with the dirty deed. All the more reason to set Windows Update to "Notify but don't download."

 

Your best bet right now, if you have Windows 7 or 8.1 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 just yet -- remember, you have until July 28, 2016 to upgrade for free -- is to cut KB 3035583 off at the knees. The easiest way to do that is by running GWX Control Panel.

 

Microsoft has provided no changelog, of course, and no indication what this version of Get Windows 10 does that's any different from the five previous versions.

 

I'm still looking for a single example of a KB patch, other than a security patch, released in 2015 for Windows 7 or 8.1 that does something worthwhile for Win7 and 8.1 customers. (Time zone changes in Eastern Europe don't count.) Can you recall one?

 

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[steven36]

45 minutes ago, Batu69 said:

Microsoft has provided no changelog, of course, and no indication what this version of Get Windows 10 does that's any different from the five previous versions.

 

 

Really there's no changelog needed just turn  updates off, don't install it and hide it.

 

Its the same update they been pushing since June. its not like they hide the fact  what its for

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Update installs Get Windows 10 app in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1

• This update installs the Get Windows 10 app, which helps users understand their Windows 10 upgrade options and device readiness. For more information about Windows 10, see Windows 10.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583

 

You can even look at the bottom of the page and  see every time it updates . Only reason anyone  would  need GWX Control Panel. if they had auto updates on and installed it or had windows 10 and downgraded . Only time i ever used it was for a machine I downgraded  from windows10 to Win 7.

 

 

[steven36]

I decided get on windows  to check this out

 

As you can see i don't get on my new windows 8.1 PC very often any more I bought this PC in Sept

 

I done my updates for DEC  just now for me it was  very simple  even though KB 3035583 was in important updates

 

Ive had auto updates off since I bought this machine . Every month there is most of the time a reissue  of some get windows 10 update i must hide . Once  July 2016 comes there not going to try to give  you windows 10 anymore .

 

[Karlston]

I heard a rumour that Microsoft was going to start using the slogan "Trust us - We're Microsoft" to promote Windows 10.

 

Apparently a Microsoft sponsored survey over hundreds of thousands of users gained zero results. Turns out the users all laughed so hard they could barely breathe, let alone complete the survey.

 

(Seriously though, it's good to see Woody Leonhard's posts getting more airtime. He's one of  the few media who recognises Microsoft's Windows 10 "promotion" for the bullying, nagging, forcing, sneakiness, and bribery that it really is.)

[steven36]

49 minutes ago, Karlston said:

I heard a rumour that Microsoft was going to start using the slogan "Trust us - We're Microsoft" to promote Windows 10.

 

Apparently a Microsoft sponsored survey over hundreds of thousands of users gained zero results. Turns out the users all laughed so hard they could barely breathe, let alone complete the survey.

 

(Seriously though, it's good to see Woody Leonhard's posts getting more airtime. He's one of  the few media who recognises Microsoft's Windows 10 "promotion" for the bullying, nagging, forcing, sneakiness, and bribery that it really is.)

Back in June  people was installing this update on purpose , Oh boy  there giving me windows 10 for free ...  what effect does these post over and over that tell people how Microsoft is do to change Microsoft's mind about promoting Windows 10 ?  0% I seen . Microsoft just says there sorry  and does it again and again.  What do you plan too do  in a few years when to get updates anymore you will need windows 10 ? See Microsoft will win in the end anyways, they have windows users by the balls unless you plain to stay on and O/S  that  never gets patched anymore . I  most likely will stop using Windows all together  if they don't change . I'm  not depended on  Microsoft anymore . I seen the  light ...

[Holmes]

How do you know it gained zero results.  I took the survey the one here:

 

 

It wasnt bad at all.  Where the information about the survey your talking about have a source.  I have installed all updates and dont have the get windows ten app running didnt use gwx control panel.

[steven36]

4 hours ago, Holmes said:

How do you know it gained zero results.  I took the survey the one here:

 

 

If you install all that  get windows 10 crap .windows 10  update  will show up on were you get windows updates . unless  they think you're pc is not compatible with it or you have somehow blocked it from  installing. Its not rocket science that it got zero results. Microsoft  said they were sorry and put  get windows 10   in optional updates again. reissuing that update over and over and as Computer world said sometime time this month it would be back in important updates . And look  at the 3rd post it was  I done hid  that update before  as I hid others and they came back as well .

[Holmes]

He said as if he read a article about survey results and I wanted to know the article name thats why I asked.  I noticed I got a important update and its the thirtythirtyfivefiveeightythree update and microsoft windows malicious software removal tool.  How many times have they reissued it?  If they reissue it again it definitely gained zero results.

[steven36]

Just now, Holmes said:

He said as if he read a article about survey results and I wanted to know the article name thats why I asked.  I noticed I got a important update and its the thirtythirtyfivefiveeightythree update and microsoft windows malicious software removal tool.  How many times have they reissued it?  If they reissue it again it definitely gained zero results.

Read the top of the post 6 times,  I got a  laptop  i need  to service  soon were the user has   ran all updates on it . Its windows 7 as old as it is i doubt it could handle windows 10 . There getting popups ads and crap to install windows 10 .

[Holmes]

Read it six times?  Im sure if I read it one time Ill get the information if they sneak that update onto my computer again Ill remove it like I did last time.  I have installed many that are worthwhile click on the update and click additional information.  You want to know all the worthwhile ones goo into windows update history click the bar at the top that allows you to sort I sorted by name and scrolled down to all update for windows seven for xsixtyfour based systems I got fiftythree updates installed that are like that one I saw this when looking through my history for how many updates I have install for telemetry and the fact that there is fiftythree and I have checked some of them and there not all telemetry shows there are soome worthwhile.  No im noot drinking the microsoft kool aid and no Im not a microosoft fanboy Im observant thats what I am and Im frustrated about this get windows ten bullsh*t to thats why I took the survey and gave them a piece of my mind.

[steven36]

Just now, Holmes said:

Read it six times?  Im sure if I read it one time Ill get the information if they sneak that update onto my computer again Ill remove it like I did last time.

That's  a lot of unnecessary work to uninstall something that  can simply be hidden and never be installed  to begin with. why don't  you  pay mind  of what you install.?

[Holmes]

I know that its to be installed and when it installs again Ill remove all telemetry sh*t at the same time.  I could uncheck it first then hide it I feel lazy right now to tell you the truth the first four or five times they got installed and I removed them and it never came back a part of me (my ocd) wants to install it first then remove it (this happens on my computer only I dont do this with friends or family or customers computers).

[steven36]

Just now, Holmes said:

I am I know that its to be installed and when it installs again Ill remove all telemetry sh*t at the same time.  I could uncheck it first then hide it I feel lazy right now Ill do it later.

IF you don't pay no mind to what updates you need to run GWX Control Panel  and remove the updates and the windows 10 files with it,  If you don't  turn windows update off  and administer only good updates manually .  every time they reissue the patch it will waste bandwidth and re-downloads  3gb of windows 10 files to you're  pc . something i dont want on my network  while I'm trying to  dl something else .

[Holmes]

Read the same post again and I know what it does.  Im jnot turning windows update off and I doo remove the bad ones if you downlooad windows ten its three GB in size not the get windows ten update the KB patch is not three GB in size it a Kilobyte patch.  I systematically remove the updates what you do on your network is fine Im not saying anything about that.  I know exactly what Im doing.

[steven36]

Just now, Holmes said:

Read the same post again and I know what it does.  Im jnot turning windows update off and I doo remove the bad ones if you downlooad windows ten its three GB in size not the get windows ten update the KB patch is not three GB in size it a Kilobyte patch.  I systematically remove the updates what you do on your network is fine Im not saying anything about that.  I know exactly what Im doing.

Sorry sir,  but that's what they call a oxymoron, to uninstall updates to just  let Microsoft reinstall them over and over again, tell July 2016.  It only takes me a min to check the updates to see what there for , there even hyperlinked  for us  and install only the good ones and hide the bad ones.. 

[Holmes]

I realize by letting the get windows ten app install i risk the possibility of windows ten getting downloaded like microsoft has done on coomputer's before when I had get windows ten app installed before it never preloaded onto my computer (I know what a oxymoron is).  I say it again I know exactly what Im doing.

[vibranium]

Whoever dreamt up this "marketing strategy" will be fired soon. Just a guess.

[wavymavy]

On ‎12‎/‎19‎/‎2015 at 8:58 AM, vibranium said:

Whoever dreamt up this "marketing strategy" will be fired soon. Just a guess.

 

It's great for them actually.  Most people don't know and don't care...the perfect customer for ms.

 

On ‎12‎/‎18‎/‎2015 at 10:19 PM, Karlston said:

I heard a rumour that Microsoft was going to start using the slogan "Trust us - We're Microsoft" to promote Windows 10.

 

...and I can see that happening!