Forced upgrade from windows 8.1 to windows 10

antiloop22 · Mar 8, 2016

hello, my computer is forcing me to upgrade to windows 10, there is no option to stop it. what do I do? I do not want windows 10. only option it gave me is to schedule a date for the upgrade..... vs upgrading right now.

burgessanthony · Mar 8, 2016

whats wrong with W10? Its awesome.

rgd1101 · Mar 8, 2016

close the windows with the x on the upper right corner

USAFRet · Mar 8, 2016

antiloop22 :

It's 'forcing you', because you failed to uncheck the box that says Upgrade now.

Possibly let it finish, then roll back to 8.1.
Or, let it be Win 10.

little_me · Mar 8, 2016

windows 10 was moved to be recommended update in january and.. yes, you can stop it.
change windows update to not install updates automatically (or at least auto-install only critical ones) and let you select.
look for windows update KB3035583 and remove it. (it's the GWX update which puts the update to windows 10 pop-up to taskbar)
I'm pretty sure they update it regularly and give it a new number to get it to your computer yet again.

Also you can use taskmanager and look for startup things that point to said installer.

crude way to make it not succeed is to delete c:\$windows.~bt folder which is normally hidden and contains necessary install items. This should cause it to fail at trying to install itself.

in short, googling tells a lot.

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