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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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@Gerry - You'll need a system with a spare dozen or more gigs of hard drive space for that to be effective because the GWX program will download all of the Windows 10 install files without asking you first and then prompt you one day to install Windows 10 "now" or "tonight."
Ridiculous. This advice amounts to contending that "Yes, you CAN live life on a window ledge, if you do everything just so."
Example: "Make sure that the box before Upgrade to Windows 10 is unchecked." Well, at one point a couple of months ago, Microsoft put that "optional" update through with the box checked. They backtracked a few days later, claiming it was accidental, but that's pure BS and everyone knows it. So now we're going to check the Optional Updates to make sure they don't pull that stunt again? How does this protect against their next little bit of creativity?
More fundamentally, why would anyone want KB3035583 lurking on their computer but go through a bunch of workarounds to keep it from springing to life?
Canadian Tech is right: The correct solution is to set updates to Never, and check for updates manually. I'll go further and say that the correct solution is to accept only the Security Updates and uncheck all others (and, yes, make sure the Optional Updates are unchecked too). Because the Security Updates tend to be grouped at the top of the list, it's easy. Think about it, Windows 7 (or 8 or 8.1) user: Are you really expecting Microsoft to provide functional improvements to your old software while at the same time they are do everything possible to persuade or coerce users into adopting Win10? Do you really want them to "improve" your existing software? The security updates are all I want from them. And I sure don't want to live on a window ledge.
Just to record one again a dissenting voice to the consensus of views expressed in this thread. You do not need to remove or prevent KB3035583 from installing to avoid upgrading to Windows 10.
Select Start, All Programs, Windows Update, Change Settings. Under Important Updates is a box showing the current setting. Click on the Arrow down to the right and change the selection to “Check for Updates but let me choose whether to download and install them” and click on OK. Restart your computer.
Select Start, All Programs, Windows Update, Check for Updates. If optional updates are available click optional updates and make sure that the box before Upgrade to Windows 10 is unchecked. Right click on Upgrade to Windows 10 and select Hide this Update. Check the boxes before the remaining updates. Click on Install and click again on Install in the next window and the process of installing starts. You should let the process proceed without interruption. Multi-tasking at the time updating is in progress is unwise. The progress window will tell you what is going on. You need to be patient. Restart the computer when prompted to do so.
You may find that Upgrade to Windows 10 does not stay hidden. If that happens repeat the exercise as necessary.
Right click on the Start button and select Properties, Taskbar tab. Click Customise (under Notification area). In the next window place the cursor on GWX 1 and use the scroll 2 to change the behaviour to Hide icon and notifications 3 and click OK 4 .
No I allow the basic security update that appears about once a month, other than that nothing
Microsoft:
It is MY computer, not yours!!!
