Yes, I notice Updates occur every week or so. So far, everything seems to be OK. But, I certainly will consider a clean install. Hopefully, the clean install will do the trick. Hope I don't do a clean install for nothing! I can't understand why Microsoft can't make it easier to dis-enroll from this. You've been great with yr replies. I hope I haven't been too much of a pest! Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Can't leave windows insider program!
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Anonymous
Hi,
I cannot leave the windows insider program. I've tried all emails that I've ever signed into on my computer, and all of them just say "This email address is not registered as a windows insider". I only pressed the join button to the windows insider program to see what it would do, I didn't sign up with an email or anything. It won't let me out. I would really like to get out because it's restricting my updates! I need help, please.
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2023-08-28T12:37:44+00:00 No worries. Happy help. Been using windows since ver 1.0. (:
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Anonymous
2023-08-28T12:48:39+00:00 I know exactly what I’m doing with windows. So if there are this many people who got into the dev channel because they are unconscious, there must be something that’s wrong with the way the Insider Program is presenting itself.
I picked Beta but when I left Beta it automatically linked me to Dev. That happened behind the dark walls of MS.
This needs to be fixed!!
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Anonymous
2023-08-28T16:51:23+00:00 I totally agree. I'm glad you and others have had this problem. Believe me, I didn't pick the Dev channel - I didn't even know I was enrolling in this horrible program. A lot of people posting here have said the same thing. You think you're requesting info on what the program is, and before you know it, you're enrolled and put into a channel without choice or reason! I've reported this to Microsoft but no one cares. Thanks for keeping me sane!!!
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Anonymous
2023-08-28T20:00:04+00:00 I totally agree. I'm glad you and others have had this problem. Believe me, I didn't pick the Dev channel - I didn't even know I was enrolling in this horrible program. A lot of people posting here have said the same thing. You think you're requesting info on what the program is, and before you know it, you're enrolled and put into a channel without choice or reason! I've reported this to Microsoft but no one cares. Thanks for keeping me sane!!!
@EileenFazzini,
Sounds like you learned a sad lesson the hard way. 😝🤬
I've been working with insider builds for over 10 years and never had one installed without my specific consent.
That doesn't mean that I trust Microsoft, they take forever to fix bugs and they keep pushing new useless experimental features instead of fixing the reported problems. 🤬
Insider, builds are only meant for users that want to try out and test the latest changes that MS is experimenting with.
The insider builds are never stable and could have plenty of bugs.
They should only be used on spare machines, not on a regular production machine.
Even in that case, I always keep a system image backup of a good working released public build system to revert to, in case anything goes wrong, I just restore the good working system. 🤷♂️