Windows 10 - if you don't want to upgrade
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on 24-05-2016 23:08
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on 24-05-2016 23:08
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36367221
Be careful what you click !!!!!
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on 24-05-2016 23:18
Thanks for the heads up on this @Beenherebefore. I can confirm this happened to me last week. I am running Win 7 on my laptop in the UK and the reason I don't want to upgrade is because I have a laptop in Spain also running Win 7. When I go there I want compatibility between the two laptops... and also it's my personal choice.
Anyway... long story short I clicked on the red cross to close the box and voila it start a countdown in seconds to upgrade. Luckily I panicked and shut down my laptop...so stopped it in it's tracks. Nasty underhand trick if honest....
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on 25-05-2016 10:31
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on 25-05-2016 10:31
Thanks for this, I've not booted up my laptop for about a week so had no idea of this...
How then do you get rid of the box without initiating the download? I've got automatic download enabled on my laptop but I'm guessing I'll have to go back to manual installs now... Grrr Microsoft are increasingly getting right on my wick!
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25-05-2016 11:03 - edited 25-05-2016 11:08
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25-05-2016 11:03 - edited 25-05-2016 11:08
Not sure how to get rid of the box @gindygoo without shutting down your laptop...The problem is 60 seconds isn't long and I was lucky enough to be sitting in front of my laptop when the pop up appeared and I clicked to 'close'. ...then had 1 minute to decide what to do as the countdown started immediately ......I just shut the whole PC down!
Edited to add: the last sentence in the article simply states this "Customers can choose to accept or decline the Windows 10 upgrade."..... mmmmm...I don't think so...
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25-05-2016 11:25 - edited 25-05-2016 11:28
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25-05-2016 11:25 - edited 25-05-2016 11:28
@gindygoo wrote:Thanks for this, I've not booted up my laptop for about a week so had no idea of this...
How then do you get rid of the box without initiating the download? I've got automatic download enabled on my laptop but I'm guessing I'll have to go back to manual installs now... Grrr Microsoft are increasingly getting right on my wick!
There's a cancel window in the middle of the screen........do not click on the red X in the top right of the screen.
It's the line beneath the date of the scheduled upgrade.
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on 25-05-2016 18:38
Most things are where they should be and getting used to the dual menus (old school and touch screen optiond) of it takes a little bit of time
All personal choices obviously but it's definitely getting a bad rep when it's actually pretty good.
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on 25-05-2016 18:44
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on 25-05-2016 18:44
I rate Win10 alongside those 2.
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on 25-05-2016 19:08
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on 25-05-2016 19:08
Please select the post that helped you best and mark as the solution. This helps other members in resolving their issues faster. Thank you.
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on 25-05-2016 20:27
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on 25-05-2016 20:27
It's not a question of 'hating Win 10'. My husband has it and loves it. As I said earlier...I have two laptops...the second one is in Spain..Until they are both upgraded together I have no interest in running 2 laptops on two different systems...
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on 26-05-2016 02:15
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on 26-05-2016 02:15
There are no compatibility issues running 7 on one laptop and 10 on the other. I did the same thing before updating the drivers on my main laptop. Honestly, give it a go, you can always revert to 7 again.