I learnt a couple of things about the Win10 upgrade option on Win7

[mikeymikec]

I would guess that most of this applies to Win81 as well, but anyway.

I did a platform upgrade recently, so I did a fresh install of Win7. Despite getting in all the Windows updates, and telling it to check for more, the Win10 notification didn't appear. I then realised that I hadn't activated Windows yet, then after the next reboot the Win10 notification started appearing.

I (almost immediately) then used the registry tweak to disable it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001

It seems to me that Windows hasn't tried to download Win10's setup files into the usual hidden folder on the root of C drive either, presumably because GWX had been disabled before it could start downloading the files in the background. I'm also not getting the "upgrade to Win10" hijack of Control Panel > Windows Update (screenshot from another site):

I would surmise that if one wanted to get rid of Win10 notifications (both on systray and in Control Panel > WU) after the files had been downloaded, that running the disk cleanup wizard to remove the Win10 upgrade files, then disabling GWX using that registry tweak, as opposed to attempting to play whack-a-mole with selected Windows updates.

 

[tidy]

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[squirrel dog]

seems like playing whack a mole . I did the above to one pc I have that's sole purpose is to run a legacy printer(Dell 3200cn color laser)the other 4 I run , I gave up on and have 10 tweaked best I can . Waiting for the other shoe to drop on 10 users (pay to play) When that happens , if ever , I will reload 7x64 . Or might give El Capitan(or whatever) a shot , beau coup used apple hardware on craigs where I live .

 

[BarkingGhostar]

seems like playing whack a mole . I did the above to one pc I have that's sole purpose is to run a legacy printer(Dell 3200cn color laser)the other 4 I run , I gave up on and have 10 tweaked best I can . Waiting for the other shoe to drop on 10 users (pay to play) When that happens , if ever , I will reload 7x64 . Or might give El Capitan(or whatever) a shot , beau coup used apple hardware on craigs where I live .

Why would you want to buy actual Apple hardware to try OSX? It can more than easily run on most PC hardware.