Over the past month Microsoft has been getting aggressive with their Windows 10 “auto-upgrades”. \u00a0We call it an auto-upgrade because the user doesn’t seem to have a choice on the upgrade. \u00a0They will walk away from their PC and when they come back they’ve been upgraded without doing anything to start the process.<\/p>\n
We’re sticking with your recommendation: \u00a0If you have Windows 7, stick with Windows 7 until 2020, when Windows 7 comes to end-of-life. \u00a0If you have Windows 8, go ahead and upgrade to Windows 10. \u00a0Microsoft is giving a deadline of July 29, 2016 as the date of the upgrade being free, so do it before then.<\/p>\n
There’s been some adverse consequences for Microsoft for the auto-upgrades. \u00a0Some might say these were costly in nature<\/a>\u00a0for Microsoft. \u00a0Because of this, Microsoft has throttled back on their forcefulness in installing the upgrade<\/a>, however, this is not been 100% true so far.<\/p>\n Remember, you do have 30 days to go back to the previous operating system, but the reversal doesn’t always work.<\/p>\n Because of this, we’re recommending the following install: \u00a0Go to www.grc.com\/Never10.htm and select the green “Download Now” button. \u00a0Download the small file, and then go open it. \u00a0This will open up a window that will have to options on it. \u00a0The writing initially will be in a ref font and will read “Windows 10 Upgrade is ENABLED for this system!”<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0Click on the button at the bottom of the window that reads “Disable Win10 Upgrade”. \u00a0The writing will change to\u00a0“Windows 10 Upgrade is DISABLED\u00a0for this system!”<\/span><\/strong> in green font. \u00a0By saving the file, you can always go back if you want to upgrade to Windows 10.<\/p>\n If you’ve been upgraded, and things aren’t working anymore, give us a call. \u00a0Some programs are NOT compatible with Windows 10, so be prepared to upgrade if you’ve been upgraded and you can’t go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past month Microsoft has been getting aggressive with their Windows 10 “auto-upgrades”. \u00a0We call it an auto-upgrade because the user doesn’t seem to have a choice on the upgrade. \u00a0They will walk away from their PC and when they come back they’ve been upgraded without doing anything to start the process. We’re sticking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,17,16],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os","category-win10","tag-pcmdx","tag-upgrade","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}