Ot: Why you dont want to run windows Issue II

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it turns out you have to use something worse that the command line - regedit (not available from a mouse click last time I used windows) to eradicate the automatic malware installation of Windows 10.

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The Natural Philosopher
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In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

I'm not sure why it is worse than the command line, but Regedit is available with a mouse click or two, it's just not on the start menu by default. It's just a program residing in the Windows folder.

OK, it might also be hidden by default as well, I can't remember, but really both of these things are fairly sensible given the mess one could make of things if you didn't know what you were doing.

I do agree that the way MS have approached the whole pushing the Win10 upgrade thing is pretty crap.

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Chris French

On 09 Jan 2016, Chris French grunted:

+1

I had decided in advance that I was going to upgrade Win7 on one of my PCs over the Xmas period, when I'd have time to do it and deal with any potential issues and also get to grips with it while not interfering with work; I decided that should be long enough at least for M$ to sort out the major bugs in Win10 after releasing it.

I had heard that once you clicked on the dreaded taskbar icon to accept Win10, it was quite a slow download over a period of time, so I did that stage in mid-December to ensure the installation file would be ready when I wanted them. When the download was complete (actually very quickly) I was presented with a screen "Do you want to install now or later?" - naturally I went for later. So far so good.

Next up, I got a screen inviting me to select the exact time within the next three days that I wanted to do the installation. "Er, not at all thanks". But unbelievably there was no 'abort' 'cancel' or 'back' facility. Google advised me that many folks had experienced similar incredulity; if I forced a reboot or similar, it would just install it on startup and that the only solution was to select a time slot and wait until an hour before that, whereupon a countdown timer would appear and provide the option of rescheduling within the next three days. Bizarre or what?

As it happens I did eventually find a way to kill it - can't remember how now, but it was definitely a workround and not M$-intended. Idiots.

(That said, when I did do the upgrade at Xmas, I will concede that it was utterly faultless with no intervention required; so M$ do at least get a small brownie point for that).

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Lobster

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