KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

Another thing you can do is turn off your Customer Experience Improvement Participation (CEIP) settings.  These settings allow your computer to feed data to Microsoft.  I doubt they really use that data to improve Windows 7.  To do this:

Opt out of Microsoft’s Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)

Microsoft’s Spying program

2010 Word

1. File
2. Options
3. Trust Center
4. Trust Center Settings
5. Privacy
6. Uncheck “sign up for CEIP

Windows7

1. Start
2. Type customer in text box
3. Click on change ceip settings

There are programs in your computer that absolutely need to be updated and should when they are offered, at least that is what I advise to my clients.  These updates for the most part, fix security holes, and will make your computer safer.   Some of them are:

Java, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, your antivirus program (although that should be taking place without your intervention). 

Please do continue to use Windows Update, but do it with judgment.

Hi since I first got involved with this post back in June I think, I have had WU permanently blocked and all my problems went away, funny thing is though I replied a couple of days ago to a post on here and straight after a box appeared saying a Microsoft programme urgently needs updating which I immediately cancelled , it's as if we are being monitored for just posting on this thread, then this other box came up saying my ad block needed to be updated which I also ignored, because it didn't look like a genuine update notification

Are Microsoft  really that desperate to get control of our computers ?Like I said in the past , im not really that good with computers , but im so suspicious now , I hardly allow anything to update

I, Canadian Tech, am the originator of this discussion last Spring.  I doubt most of you read through this entire discussion thread.  So, let me provide all you with a summary of my conclusions and my action plan.  I have this action in place for my 150 client computers and have recommended it freely in many questions in this forum:

http://www.canadiantech.info/for-techies/prevent-windows-10/

I have advised my clients to do what I have dreaded doing for years — turn off Automatic Windows Update.

The problem is compounded by an incessant drive by Microsoft to install Windows 10 on your computer without your permission.  They keep re-installing KB3035583 (that is the enabler) on your computer, even if you uninstall it.  The result is the huge download and then constant nags without an apparent way to say no.

So I have advised my clients to shut down WU.  Once a month on the 2nd Tuesday, they will get an email from me advising to manually start WU and then to reject specific updates like KB3035583.  Then update.  WU remains on NEVER.

Some may scoff at this idea.  Well they are incorrect.  Never means you are never giving Microsoft a chance to decide what you download and install.  It does NOT mean you will never update.  The difference is that now you take control and the responsibility of updating.

Some may believe that Microsoft would not do such a stupid thing.  You must read Woody Leonhard (one of the most respected writers in the trade)  http://www.infoworld.com/article/2983777/microsoft-windows/how-to-clean-the-windows-10-crapware-off-your-windows-7-or-81-pc.html?nsdr=true Woody calls the Windows 10 download “crapware.”

If you see the Windows flag on the bottom right of your screen, chances are pretty high, your computer already has the Win10 file. Even if you do not, it may be on your computer by now anyway.  Here are instructions on how to rid yourself of it:

If you are using windows 7, and have not installed win10 and do not want it, here is a procedure that I have used many times and it works.

1. Take Windows Update off automatic — Never check
2. Task Manager, processes, find and end GWX.exe
3. Windows Update, Installed updates, WAIT a long time till you see the green bar complete its long trip to the right
4. Now, search for KB3035583, uninstall it
5. If there are others you want to uninstall, click Later
6. Then, clear the search box and after a brief wait, enter another KB number.
7. Restart the PC
8. Disk cleanup, do the 2nd step for System — this takes a while
9. You should find a Temporary Installation file there that is anywhere from 4 to 8 Gigabytes.  It is the Win10 downloaded file. Put a check mark on that item.
10. OK, Delete Files
11. Restart
12. The startup will take a long time while it finishes cleanup

Alternatively, you will find a solution in a Woody Leonhard article:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2979572/microsoft-windows/gwx-stopper-an-easy-way-to-permanently-delete-get-windows-10-nagware-in-windows-7-and-81.html

If you choose “check for updates, but let me choose whether to download and install them”, Microsoft will download an “important” update KB3035583 to your computer.  It will be pre-checked — selected.  Unless you check WU and discover this BEFORE you shut down, it will install it during the shut-down process.   Hiding accomplishes nothing.

If you are going to take control of your computer and prevent Microsoft from downloading and installing their malware, you have to lock them out altogether.

I am advising my clients that they take full control and responsibility for WU from now on.  I will advise them each month on the 2nd Tuesday to start WU, uncheck specific updates and complete the update.  Of course for now KB3035583 and KB2952664 are on that list.  As well as KB2977759, KB3075249, KB3080149, KB3083710, KB3083324,  KB3022345, and  KB3068708

You will find a constantly updated list of updates to reject at Ask Woody (Woody Leonhard) http://www.askwoody.com/category/microsoft-windows-patches-security/

This is more than annoying.  It goes way beyond that.  It is underhanded, dishonest and just plain wrong for them to do this.  There is no offer to accept or refuse.  There is no informed consent.  There is not even an idea of what it is your getting and what the result is if you change your mind.

This will happen to your computer whether you asked for it or not!

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2983777/microsoft-windows/how-to-clean-the-windows-10-crapware-off-your-windows-7-or-81-pc.html?nsdr=true

Once you have it downloaded to your computer, it will nag you very frequently and not offer you an option to stop it or reject it.  It will not even allow you to update Windows 7 any longer.

http://www.canadiantech.info/for-techies/prevent-windows-10/

Be careful when installing selected Updates ... I just found that KB3035583 was unhidden yet again.

I usually wait several weeks after the monthly Updates are released before installing selected Updates.

Today, my first step was to hide any updates (such as KB3035583 and KB2952664) that I do not want (because they are associated with "nagging" and with sending data to Microsoft).

So I hid KB3035583 and KB2952664 and proceeded to install some Office updates. After the Office updates had been installed, I noticed that KB3035583 had been unhidden and was back in the list of Important updates (so I hid it yet again).

Be Careful and selectively apply ONLY those updates you really want ... just because an update is shown in the list of Important updates does not necessarily mean you want/need to install it.