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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

How to Stop the Windows 10 Upgrade Automatic Download

June 16, 2015

The big tech news is that on July 29 Microsoft will make Windows 10 available as a free upgrade for existing Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users. To prepare for the download of Windows 10, Microsoft released an update (KB3035583) for Windows 7 (Optional) and Windows 8.1 (Recommended) that is called Get Windows 10 app. The update provides a prompt for the user to have the option of reserving your copy of Windows 10. But what if you don’t want to be prompted or even download the Windows 10 upgrade? The easiest way is to uninstall KB3035583 from the installed updates. You can then select “Hide this update” so that it doesn’t inadvertently gets installed later.

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