topic Re: Windows 10 Forced Update in Electronics

Windows 10 Forced Update

Brooklynny — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:59:44 GMT

Draw your own conclusions:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-adjusts-windows-10-upgrade-after-complaints/

Re: Windows 10 Forced Update

geezerette — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:05:21 GMT

A little late.

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chickenbutt — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:15:18 GMT

Definitely about time, but wow. I'm glad that they seem to (hopefully?) adjusted their thinking on this, instead of making people think that it is a requirement that they upgrade their OS (despite that many will have incompatibilities).

The thing where they are NOW offering a 'decline offer' - uh, DUH! That should have been on the table from day one. There should have been a decline option at which point they completely back off with the pushing AND the updates that are for the express purpose of upgrading the OS.

I hesitate to understand their notion that Win10 is more secure and all that. Well, why not have updates to the other currently supported operating systems to make THEM more secure also? geez already.

I don't have anything against Win10, as I've stated before, but the upgrading on an existing computer is definitely not always a good idea and shouldn't be pushed like that. People who are less experienced are scared by some of their tactics, and that is totally understandable. They really need to back all the way off with this.

They will still sell new computers with the new OS and that is how it should be.

Re: Windows 10 Forced Update

hoosieroriginal — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:25:36 GMT

Thanks to @Gokat - I have been able to successfully block the Windows 10 update. Thanks Gokat!

Re: Windows 10 Forced Update

Brooklynny — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:27:32 GMT

Don't know why the "Solved" banner is on my original post. Must have touched something inadvertently. Oh well....

Re: Windows 10 Forced Update

ChynnaBlue — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:31:32 GMT

From the article: The pop-ups themselves caused all kinds of confusion. When users clicked the red "X" in the upper-right-hand corner, thinking they had declined the offer, Windows 10 would instead begin to download automatically. Closing the window apparently was an "agreement" to upgrade to the newer software, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Wow, no wonder so many people were confused! Assuming that anyone closing the box was agreeing to the download was a downright stupid thing to do on Microsoft's part. Anyone who has ever dealt with an end user of any software program should know that people often don't read those messages and click to X just to get them out of the way so they can do what they came to do. To make that X then download something is wrong and feels deceitful. That's how you get Malware - it shouldn't be how you get Windows 10.

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SoX — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:41:49 GMT

I still constantly get the pop ups ... MS is relentless. People should know to click anywhere except on the pop up if you don't want the upgrade.

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athenian — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:32:21 GMT

According to the Daily Mail, they did this because they had to settle a lawsuit for $10000, brought by a woman who got an unasked for update on her work computer, which froze. She sued for a new computer and lost business revenue. The new clearer ability to refuse the update was part of the settlement. I wonder if her new computer is a Mac?

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HULAGIRL — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:46:18 GMT

My next laptop will be an Apple........I'm tired of Microsoft and for now I'm keeping my 8.1 on my current laptop. I tried the update and hated it, so I unloaded it and went back to my 8.1. I love my iPhone, so I'm sure switching to an Apple laptop will be fiine.

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spent2much — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:50:06 GMT

@Brooklynny THANK YOU!!!!!

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Jordan2 — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:55:28 GMT

I had 2 weeks of aggravation as Windows 10 started to install without my permission, I stopped it. It took @Gokat and lots of patience with me to finally right my Windows 7!

Re: Windows 10 Forced Update

Brooklynny — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:37:22 GMT

@spent2much, you're welcome! When I saw the article this afternoon, I thought I read it wrong and went back to reread it. I don't think I'll ever trust Microsoft to do the right thing at the outset -- NOT when they get caught and get sued. I'm glad the plaintiff won. Microsoft caused so much angst for so many Windows users who were either not ready to upgrade (like me) or didn't want to.

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PINKdogWOOD — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:27:38 GMT

I had it for a couple of days. Hated it, totally different feel to 8.1 which I'm very comfortable with. DId a recovery back to a date when I did not have it, worked out perfectly and back to 8.1.

Do not feel forced to allow 10 to download. Do it only if you really want it, and then y ou may feel the same as many others, you've canged your mind and really don't want it. You have fixes to get rid of it.

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geezerette — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:32:42 GMT

Between this and Microsoft's incompentance with their automatic updates, they lost me as a customer. I needed a new computer but instead of a new Windows computer, I just switched to Apple and got an iPad instead. I miss some things about a full computer, but not enough to ever get another one--especially not Windows-based.

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ROMARY — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 02:21:39 GMT

Ditto to a few of the latest posts. Not only has my computer been slow, I now can't get into my emails. It keeps saying that my password and my email address don't match. Want me to 'reset' my password. I don't trust MS and also my provider. I've had the same password for years and have not forgotten it whatsoever. I was going to take my computer to the computer repair dept. and send the bill to MS. But, now I'm thinking of cancelling my phone, my internet service and going to an Apple or a Google powered device. One of the shopping channels offered a few days ago a tablet or something that is powered by Google. It really 'irks me' that I can't get into my emails, and I'm not going to spend all day long tomorrow dealing with some rep. on the phone, asking me 'this and that'. It's totally ridiculous and such a waste of customers' time. If you don't hear from me, I'm fine, and I've probably cancelled 'everything' that has to do with phones and with computers. I'll be back on my Apple or my Google powered contraption, whatever that is, in a few weeks or months, depending how happy and peaceful I am without dealing with such nonsense. Happy July 4th, and may we have peace of mind and safety always.

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ROMARY — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 03:01:32 GMT

The news about the lady who won 10K was in the NY Times news and other local newspapers in our country. She lost a lot of business, and when I searched the Web, others lost business time and money, including realtors. I believe the articles were on June 28 or so. It's such a disgrace, a large, supposidly half-way 'intelligent' company, doing things ahead of time and basically ruining customers' days and peace of mind. .............. BTW, I was typing this post, and then, out of the clear blue, there were a couple of 'ding-tones' and my post disappeared. Now it's back because of autosave. Anyway, I'm fairly sure that I'm going to cancel everything at my local provider's store, including my landline. We'll see if I change my mind tomorrow morning. Childish MS allegedly has no business being in business, not only imo, but the opinions of many people I know.

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ROMARY — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 03:06:07 GMT

p.s. If our phone providers 'get wind' of what MS has done to prompt many of us to cancel our provider's services, just maybe they will put 'pressure' on the culprit. It takes a village (not just one person) to correct childish company behavior.

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glb613 — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:58:35 GMT

@ROMARY wrote:
Ditto to a few of the latest posts. Not only has my computer been slow, I now can't get into my emails. It keeps saying that my password and my email address don't match. Want me to 'reset' my password. I don't trust MS and also my provider. I've had the same password for years and have not forgotten it whatsoever. I was going to take my computer to the computer repair dept. and send the bill to MS. But, now I'm thinking of cancelling my phone, my internet service and going to an Apple or a Google powered device. One of the shopping channels offered a few days ago a tablet or something that is powered by Google. It really 'irks me' that I can't get into my emails, and I'm not going to spend all day long tomorrow dealing with some rep. on the phone, asking me 'this and that'. It's totally ridiculous and such a waste of customers' time. If you don't hear from me, I'm fine, and I've probably cancelled 'everything' that has to do with phones and with computers. I'll be back on my Apple or my Google powered contraption, whatever that is, in a few weeks or months, depending how happy and peaceful I am without dealing with such nonsense. Happy July 4th, and may we have peace of mind and safety always.

Why don't you do a system restore to a time before Windows 10 was installed instead of claiming some type of conspiracy?