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23-11-2015 11:25 AM
If you have any Windows device but do not want to 'upgrade' to Windows 10 but can't get rid of the icon that has been placed on your taskbar I have found the solution to get rid of it permanently. This 'free download' offer comes in the form of a Windows update and will, even if you don't want it, automatically download on your device sometime up to June 2016, one day you'll turn on your computer and there it will be, Windows 10, Microsoft don't mention that! I downloaded it on one of my laptops, which took 3 hoiurs, it wiped 4 of my programmes that could not be reinstalled even with the disc, it also wiped my internet security programme. Cortana does not work in the UK and all that is is a variation of Google Speech. I navigated around the new system for a few hours but was so dissapointed with it that I reverted back to Windows 7, you have one month to do this if you don't like the new Windows 10, if you don't you're stuck with it.
Anyone wanting to get rid of the icon and the update that is hovering in the background of your device I will post up how to do it here.
23-11-2015 12:15 PM
I've hidden the icon in the taskbar (there are options in W7 on what to show permanently), but that's all. I may go for W10, but not yet - all the advice seems to be to wait for SP1.
When you go back to the old version, do you also get your installed programs back?
23-11-2015 01:46 PM
With the icon being part of an update the SP1 update is also within it. Just hiding the icon on your task bar will not remove the pending update, in fact, anyone with Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional or Windows 8.1 is elligable for the free upgrade to 10, you don't need to reserve or be 'offered' it, if you wish you can download it any time for free up until the 29th July 2016. If you download 10 and don't like it, you have, as I said, one month thereafter to go back to 7 or 8.1, you should not loose any programmes you've downloaded or installed from disc on your earlier Windows system, it's just that your older programmes that you have on disc that you want to keep, say if you're buying a new device with 10, it will not be compatable. Also in reverting back your internet security may not work, when I tried 10 it flagged up that my security needed to be updated but when I tried the security programme 'could not be found', so it wiped it so I had to reinstall it when back to 7.
To revert back to your previous system from 10 this is how to do it.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/going-back-to-windows-7-or-windows-81
To remove the icon on your taskbar, go to 'control panel' > 'system & security' > 'windows updates' > 'veiw installed updates'. When the list has loaded scroll down until you come to 'Windows Updates' and look for 'KB3035583', highlight it and click 'Uninstall', you'll be asked in a box that opens if your sure you want to, click 'yes' and wait for the uninstall to finish. you will be asked to restart your device to complete the process. When you start up again go back to 'Windows updates' in 'control panel' and open 'check for available updates' and in the list you will find 'Windows update KB3035583, the one you just uninstalled, which is ticked in the box, click the tick to 'uncheck' the box and this disables the update, now you can hide it, this 'update' is marked or listed as 'important' and if you don't uncheck it the next time you start or restart your device it will be back again. If you see a 'service pack (SP) for 10 update uncheck that as well. Having done all this you should not be bothered again by this annoyance.
23-11-2015 02:34 PM
Thanks. Doesn't look as though I have that update, either installed or pending. Either it hasn't come yet or it's responding to my earlier "no thanks" to W10.
25-11-2015 11:02 AM
25-11-2015 04:10 PM
The majority of people that I have spoken to don't like Windows 10, they say, and I am of the same opinion, that Windows are trying to emulate or replicate an Android look system using App type 'tiles' and calling everything Apps when they are not. I'm staying with 7.
25-11-2015 07:34 PM
06-12-2015 07:09 PM
What you would refer to as Service Pack 1 is already out.
To give MS credit they do seem to smoothing out the bumps fairly quickly.
06-12-2015 07:54 PM
I think that what they learnt by introducing Windows 8 so fast, buy a new PC and 'bang', it was there, the problems that they had with that taught them a valuable lesson and by introducing Windows 10 by giving everyone the oportunity to try it out first and for the user to offer feedback in order to sort out any issues sooner.
07-12-2015 09:15 PM
I do quite like it and have been running it since release.
There's been a few bumps but all in all seems good.