Batu69 Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Never 10 is a new program by Gibson Research for machines running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to prevent the upgrade to Windows 10 on these systems. Microsoft makes it quite difficult for computer users to stay on Windows 7 or 8.1. Not only is the company re-releasing updates designed to upgrade old Windows versions to Windows 10, it has changed the importance of the Windows 10 update recently on those systems, and -- accidentally it claims -- upgraded systems automatically and without user input before. Several programs have been created in the past to help users block the upgrade to Windows 10 on computer systems running earlier versions of Windows. The most prominent is GWX Stopper but there are others such as the aptly named I don't want Windows 10. Never 10 Never 10 has been designed to add a flag to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 systems that prevents the upgrade to Windows 10 at all costs. This means that it, unlike GWX Stopper for instance, does not need to be run on the system regularly to prevent the upgrade to Windows 10. It does mean however that users can set the flag on their own on their system. We have published a guide a couple of months ago that explains how. The program page does not explain in detail what the program though. When you run the program, one of three things can happen: The program detects that updates are missing and suggests to download and install those. This is indicated by the "Latest Windows Update is not installed in this system" message. The program detects that the upgrade to Windows 10 is disabled on the system. This is indicated by the "Windows 10 OS Upgrade is disabled on this system" message. The program detects that the upgrade to Windows 10 is enabled. This is indicated by the "Windows 10 OS Upgrade is enabled for this system" message. Each message lists a different button in the interface. The first an "install update" button to install the required updates, the second an "enable Win10 Upgrade" button to re-enable the upgrade capabilities, and the third a "disable Win10 Upgrade" button to block upgrades to Windows 10 on the system. So, run once, follow the instructions and either hit the disable button right away, or if updates are missing, download those updates first before you do so. If you know your way around the Registry, it may be easier to apply the key directly instead as you won't have to download an extra program for that. Never 10 is useful to Windows users who don't want to edit the Registry manually, and prefer a simple program that does that for them. I suggest you create a System Restore backup or some other backup before you run the program though. Check out our extensive guide to prevent the upgrade to Windows 10 on earlier versions of Windows. GRC | Never 10 Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 I have used grc many times grc Gibson research corporation steve gibson is a computer scientist very smart man I wish he would make a donotspy program to. This is safe for those who dont know grc or who steve gibson is.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Curious... no mention of GWX Control Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 I have been using Steve Gibson's software since the mid 90s, particularly SpinRite. His software is excellent and he has never released something that doesn't work as he describes it. One thing I do know is you can trust the software he provides. Unlike a lot of developers he doesn't release do nothing updates every day or so just for the sake of releasing updates. His SpinRite 6 hasn't been updated in years because it works as promised and hasn't required an update. I still use it because it can reliably recover data from a corrupt drive. So I trust this utility to work as described without fear of any malicious actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmamba Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Never10 Version History v1.0 ‑ Initial release. Was not change-protecting the registry keys and the executable was signed with GRC's nearly three year old SHA1 code-signing certificate. Version number does not appear on the app user-interface. v1.1 ‑ Added read-only protection to the registry keys. Added a version number to the app's user-interface. We received some authoritative reports of some systems balking at our SHA1 Authenticode signature, so we obtained a new SHA256 code signing certificate from DigiCert. A final note: I'm a bit annoyed that “Never10” is as large as it is at 81 kbyte. The digital signature increases the application's size by 4k, but the high-resolution and high-color icons Microsoft now requires takes up 56k! So without all that annoying overhead, the app would be a respectable 21k. <g> And, yes, of course I wrote it in assembly language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyPAF Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 v1.2 has been released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actarusse Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 v1.3 ‑ Added simple one-click enumeration and deletion of any previously downloaded Windows 10 files. The option will be presented to the user when it is available. Added multiple command-line verbs which suppress the presentation of Never10's GUI user-interface to support enterprise-wide deployment of Windows 10 disabling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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