Thank you for the thank you Papit.Papit wrote: +1 kudos for giving us the ultimateoutsider link, http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/. It's works well for those who don't want to download Windows 10 and makes it easy to once and for all get rid of the 'get Windows 10' icon from the notification field in the lower right section of the task bar.
FIRST OFF: USE THE GWX CONTROL PANEL AT YOUR OWN RISK
See red highlight above: generally the nag pop-up will not be seen again. HOWEVER, MS will still try to update/upload the necessary update files that install Win 10. Luckily, the installed version of GWX will continuously monitor in the background any attempts that MS makes to upload those Win 10 updates. Please note: the optional standalone GWX version will not continuously monitor in the background, you have to do that yourself from time to time by checking the updates and and your computer's registry. IOW, get the install version unless you're a sys-op (read the GWX manual) Anyway, when GWX spots any windows registry changes on your machine it will alert you and you can take action with GWX to remove the new files and subsequent affected registry changes. You will use buttons shown at the bottom half of my previous screen shot of GWX. In stubborn cases you also can clear the upload cache thru GWX - however first read the user manual before you clear the cache. Finally, GWX prompts you to reset the registry values to exclude Win 10 from running an install. Sadly, once the install of Win 10 starts there's not much the current version of GWX can do to stop it. Finish the lengthy install then take advantage of the 30 day Win 10 removal offer MS makes. (Hope it works )
The takeaway from this last sentence is that if you are contemplating stopping a Win 10 install you'd better do it NOW. MS can override your update config to do the Win 10 install automatically! Yes, against your desire and your 'let me view first' update settings you thought were safe.
This easy-to-use program only does what sys-ops have been doing manually for half a year to keep Win 10 out of their clients computers. So, in summary will GWX stop MS Win 10 from updating forever? No, this is only one stage of a battle, and this is clearly a long term campaign. Software is rarely ever just finished.
If I made any mistakes in my analysis of GWX or whatever please feel free to correct me.