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Confirmed: How to Stop Windows 10 Forcing Itself Onto PCs – Your Essential Guide

posted by martyb on Sunday January 10 2016, @01:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the PSA dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

If you're using a PC running Windows 7 or 8, you may be getting a little sick of endless popup screens telling you to upgrade to version 10. And you may be worried about inadvertently installing the upgrade as part of a security update.

Microsoft will start pushing out a Windows 10 upgrade as a recommended, virtually mandatory, update very soon (it's right now only an optional download). Some people are tempted to turn off Windows Update completely to avoid getting the new operating system – don't. It'll leave your computer vulnerable to attack as you'll no longer get security patches.

It's actually rather easy to turn off the Windows 10 upgrade function without losing vital regular software updates. Microsoft even has an official document [*] explaining how to do it.

[...] Make sure you follow all the steps, but essentially you have to:

        1. Open the Registry Editor (search for regedit in the Start Menu and run it).
        2. Set [DWORD value] DisableOSUpgrade to 1 in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
        3. Set [DWORD value] ReservationsAllowed to 0 in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade

Or, the obligatory recommendation to run FOSS instead.

[*] Javascript required.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @02:23PM (#287611)

    Does the mouse cursor automatically move to and click on ads?

  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Sunday January 10 2016, @08:57PM

    by Common Joe (33) <common.joe.0101NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday January 10 2016, @08:57PM (#287772) Journal

    No.

    I wasn't sure a few weeks ago, but now I am. It is definitely my palm brushing the touchpad on the laptop. But it was definitively the upgrade that made the touchpad more sensitive. I have the most trouble when using Writer in LibreOffice.