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I know some of you internet gurus did it before, but in the last couple of days I've downloaded some 'new' updates (from MS) for Windows 7, and once again they've snuck in those annoying ads for Windows 10 - which I have absolutely no intention of 'upgrading' to. Can anyone ID the offending updates so I can go and delete them?
PB
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This should work.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2974479/microsoft-windows/h...
Unless you disable the update permanently (which unfortunately thanks to Microsoft's sneaky "install hidden updates anyway just for giggles" policy nowadays is pretty much impossible) you'll most likely be stuck in the position of having to do manual updates at least until this coming July, when the Windows 10 update will no longer be free for Win 7/8 users so hopefully microsoft will stop trying to pressgang you into it.
Also, keep in mind that 6 gigs worth of additional files the update has foisted on your system. Those can be murder to try and get rid of thanks to even administrator privileges not being enough to get you past their lock-out on deleting the files.
Good luck!
Melanie E.
Cross your fingers
Thanks Melanie. I read through the site and that sounds promising. I know I followed another similar blog here that was posted much earlier and deleted a couple of specific updates (that worked until this round of updates to Windows 7). Not sure if they were the same numbers quoted on the site, but it's worth a shot.
PB
Scambags
Sorry for the language but that is what I think Microsoft are.
They seem to be oblivious of the fact that people might not want Windows 10 even if it is free (As if...).
Now the guy responsible for the release has gone on holiday
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/21/microsofts_belfiore_...
I can't help think that move is like a Drug Dealer. Here have this free Ooperating System. Only later will they start stinging you for a hourly/daily/weekly/monthly subsctiption. Don't pay? Then you could lose your data (emails, stories, pictures) forever.
IMHO, this is nothing more than a SCAM
As I've said before, I've been writing software professionally for more than 40 years and I have never seen such underhand behaviour as this. I will never buy any operating system software from microsoft again.
I know that I am not alone in this. Lots of my colleagues are saying the same thing.
MS scam..
I've heard that before, but I don't know if they can apply that 'threat' to existing Windows OS's (ie: pre Windows 10). Of course it means that they'll stop supporting Windows 7 at some point, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
PB
I listened to the adds
once, back in 1997 when they said upgrade your os.
I did, to Mandrake Linux 6.1. and I have never gone back to such a poor quality product as windows.
30+ years if insecurity and instability for windows, why would ANYONE think MS produces good stuff?
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Lots'O'Hate for windows.
Sorry, but in my opinion, and a lot of others, Linux in it's many variants is just not worth the trouble. If all I wanted to do was browse the web and send email it would be fine, but until I can install the same games and programs on Linux as I can on windows, then it's useless to me. and no, WINE doesn't count.
I installed Win 10, and don't have any problems to speak of.
I doubt that anyone is going to loose their data...
except maybe to the NSA or one of the other alphabet agencies. Unless you're Google and vaporized 5 million customers in a single OOPS. Yes, software is moving from a product to a service. Windows O365... how different is that from Google DOCS, Google Drive, and all the other tools currently on the web? Don't want to pay a 10 USD monthly subscription to O365? You can get OpenOffice for nothing, run it on Window or *NIX and it does just about everything MS Office does.
Want to run a free OS, sure there are *NIX distributions out there, community supported, hacked, cracked and jacked. Got a problem, sure, write it up, dump it on some usenet feed and maybe someone will get back to you. You really going to trust a fix provided by "UZhosednow69"? It might work, it might not. If it does work, what else has been jacked into the code?
Want to run a real operating system, supported by commercial effort? You can still go to SOLARIS and get their OS that will run on multiple x86 cores or RISC chips. Won't cost you a dime to download the ISO images.
You don't like Microsoft, fine by me. But how about putting away your planet sized, religious argument tar brush.
Some of us happen to like Microsoft. I've been dealing with it since MS-DOS version 2. Been through the DOS wars, DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DEC-DOS, CP/M and all the others. Networking over twinax, coax, thicknet with vampire transceivers, fiber ring, Token Ring, and now Cat-5/5e/6 UTP/STP cable. Novell, Banyan Vines, Windows for Workgroup, NT NTAS and all the others up to Win 10 and Server 2012, Microsoft Exchange and all the other infrastructure products.
It's kept me employed for decades, it works, and one more thing, it's still here. Tell me, where's Novell? Gone. Where's Banyan Vine. Gone. Where's Digital Equipment Corporation and all of the good things they put on the market? Gone. NeXT cube? Dust.
Go back to debugging your BSD distribution that came in on that 9-track dump0 reel. I got work to do.