KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

Microsoft's latest effort to force Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users to move to Windows 10 ...

Microsoft announced that computers with newer CPU architectures ... starting with Intel's current (sixth generation) processors (known as Skylake) ... will require Windows 10. Although a specific set of Skylake processors will be supported to run Windows 7 and 8.1, but only until July 17, 2017 ... a date much earlier than the end of life dates for Windows 7 (Jan 14, 2020) and Windows 8.1 (Jan 10, 2023).

This article has more details ...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3025399/microsoft-windows/microsoft-wont-support-most-skylake-pcs-without-windows-10.html

And here's the Microsoft announcement ...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windows-10-embracing-silicon-innovation/

Many of us feel that Microsoft's tactics designed to coerce users into installing Windows 10 are deplorable. However, if Microsoft does achieve its objective of having Windows 10 installed on a billion computers ... then what Microsoft does after that may make their current tactics seem tame .... Windows as a Service ... and those services (whatever they might be) will not likely be free nor optional. Just my two cents.

To use a popular quote ...

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Can you point me to an (ideally concise and minimal) description how to safeguard Win7, please.

I agree with Canadian Tech ... to help prevent Microsoft from nagging you about Windows 10, and to prevent Microsoft from installing Windows 10 without your permission, use the free tool called GWX Control Panel. A Users Guide and download can be found here ...

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

Also, I recommend that you regularly review Woody Leonard's site for information about protecting yourself from Microsoft ...

http://www.askwoody.com/

You will find detailed and exact guidance on the web site - it is updated as needed:

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

Prevent Windows 10

December 27, 2015

Microsoft has turned a decades-long respected process — Windows Update — into a malware distribution system.  It is for all intents and purposes forcing innocent and content Windows 7 computer users into “upgrading” to its new Windows 10 version.  It promises to allow return to Windows 7 within 30 days.  That return process is flawed and leaves your computer virtually unusable and requires re-installation of Windows 7.  For some owners without a re-usable Microsoft product key or a factory restore partition on their computers, it results in a useless thing that used to be a computer.

Windows 10 is a completely new and very different Windows.  Nothing like anything you have used before.

1. It is primarily an advertising/sales vehicle.  That’s the keen motivation and reason it is free.
2. By adopting Windows 10, you sacrifice any privacy — essentially, anything on your computer is Microsoft’s and its partner’s to use as they see fit.
3. Windows Update becomes non-optional.  You, as owner of your system no longer have control over what happens to your computer.  Microsoft will re-make Windows (on your computer) into what serves its purposes without asking your permission or opinion.
4. Windows 10 as a system is still full of un-fulfilled promises and bugs.  Many of your programs will not run on Windows 10.  In fact, the “upgrade” process removes some.

So, if you like Windows 7, and most do very much so, I advise you to reject Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.  Be advised that Microsoft has committed to support Windows 7 until at least January, 2020.  Most of your current computers will last that long.

You must adopt a protective stance to prevent your Windows 7 system from becoming something you do not want.

I have advised my clients to change the Windows Update Setting to Never check for updates.  Once a month, about a week after the 2nd Tuesday, they will get an email from me advising to manually start WU and then hide every update except for ones specifically labeled Security.  In other words, Security updates only will be applied.  In all of 2015, not a single update that was not security, was something that improved Windows 7.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3016033/microsoft-windows/enough-already-microsoft-pushes-windows-nagware-patch-kb-3035583-for-sixth-time.html

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 of Windows and Office.

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.”  Woody’s advice is that if you have Windows 7, keep it, you are better off by far.

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 shortly anyway.  Here are instructions on how to rid yourself of it:

First download and run GWX Control panel.  A free app:  http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

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

It will allow you to prevent any future operating system upgrades and delete downloaded Win10 files, but it will not remove any of Microsoft’s installed or attempts to install spyware.

This process works, but it only works if you do all the steps and do them in order.

1. Take Windows Update off automatic — Never check for updates
2. Windows Update, Installed updates, WAIT a long time till you see the green bar complete its long trip to the right
3. Now, search for each of the listed updates, uninstall them.  You must wait until the list is re-created each time.
4. If there are others you want to uninstall, click Later
5. Then, clear the search box and after the list is again displayed, enter another KB number.
6. Restart the PC

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

This is more than annoying.  It goes way beyond that.  It is underhanded, dishonest and just plain wrong for Microsoft 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.

List of updates that if already installed should be removed:

KB3035583

KB2952664

KB2977759

KB3021917

KB3075249

KB3080149

KB3083710

KB3083324

KB3090045

KB3112343 (new dec 2015)

KB3022345

KB3068708

Canadiantech, Sorry to bother you directly again. I’ve some five or six PCs in the household (including family’s), all running Win7, happily. Can you point me to an (ideally concise and minimal) description how to safeguard Win7, please. – Incidentally. I got myself a red HP X2 for Christmas with Win10, as a toy (€ 300). So I had to learn a lot with space wasting programs (e.g. Live Mail). Just to get into the net Win10 is ok. Only once I had a complete loss of WiFis, as MS was insisting on »Wi-Fi Sense« (http://www.technorms.com/45873/how-to-use-wifi-sense-in-windows-10). They keep our gray cells in rotation … Fritz

Maybe there will be no bubble. They will move your files without your agreement.