Excellent points and your advice and comments are appreciated as others that are helpful.
KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?
Would you please tell me how to prevent the installation of KB3035583 in my computer and if it is already installed, how to remove it? Also, are there other updates that we need to be concerned about that enable this behaviour?
KB3035583 now appears as an Important update in Windows Update and is checked which means it will be automatically installed if the user does not uncheck it. If automatic update is set, it will install without intervention.
There are credible articles that say that Microsoft either has installed or will install changes to my computer that will enable Microsoft to use it as an advertising platform and then install Windows 10 without first obtaining an informed decision to do so. I truly hope this is not true.
On behalf of my clients and their 162 Windows "consumer" computers, I must tell you that we do not grant Microsoft or any other vendor the right to do this. When other Windows players do this, we regard it as malware and take great care to remove it.
Microsoft got to where it is today by selling Windows. We have spent decades learning how to use Windows and billions of dollars buying Windows computers and Windows software. We own these systems. They are ours, not Microsoft's.
Windows Update has earned a huge trust. We trust Microsoft to use Windows Update to keep our computers safe and secure. When Patch Tuesday comes along we install all the updates that Microsoft says are "important." We assume those to be either plugging a security leak or fixing a software error.
We all hope Windows 10 will be something we will want. We will carefully review and consult trusted advisors before we install Windows 10. We have seen Windows 8 and rejected it. Windows 8 is a bad product we did not choose.
Automatically installing Windows 10 on our computers would be a severe abuse of a well-earned trust. Changing our computers to enable them to become advertising platforms is also an abuse.
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2015-10-09T05:15:06+00:00 First, turn off automatic updates. That way they can not install more unless you allow it.
Second, it is likely that they have already downloaded a 6 Gigabyte file to your system
It sounds to me like Win10 has already downloaded to your PC. If you are using windows 7, and have not installed win10 and do not want it, here is a procedure that I have used 9 times yesterday that worked.
- Change the Windows Update setting to NEVER
- Task Manager, processes, find and end GWX.exe
- Control Panel, Uninstall a program, View installed updates, WAIT a long time
- Now, enter KB3035583, uninstall it
- Restart the PC
- Disk cleanup, do the 2nd step for System -- this takes a while
- You should find a file there that is about 5 G. It is the Win10 downloaded file
- Delete
- Restart
- The startup will take a long time while it finishes cleanup
Thank you for the info. I had already done part of it on my friend's laptop.
Not sure on mine yet after the forced installs by MSFT on 10/6/15.
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Anonymous
2015-10-09T04:56:11+00:00 Here are some links to other sites that discuss the issue of Microsoft's snooping and nagging updates, as well as settings that can be used to address these privacy issues:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/28/microsoft-intensifies-data-collection-on-windows-7-and-8-systems/
http://windowsitpro.com/windows-10/how-turn-telemetry-windows-7-8-and-windows-10
http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/attempting-to-answer-whether-ms-is-snooping/
Some of the above sites overlap one another with respect to the information they provide, but all of the sites are very interesting reading.
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Anonymous
2015-10-09T04:53:51+00:00 The silence from Microsoft is deafening.
This is the latest I've seen so far:
http://news.filehippo.com/2015/09/microsoft-sets-record-straight-windows-10-privacy-fears/
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Anonymous
2015-10-09T04:29:07+00:00 Thx very much for yout input.
I've just unchecked CEIP in MS Office 2007 (Trust Center).