Starting from today morning (at least in Poland) all my computers with Windws 7 started to showing a reminder, that I can reserver free future upgrade to Windows 10. Here is a Polish example:    On my home computer I registered, but on my office computer I was instructed to not reserve slot for future upgrade. However, no matter, what I do, reminder's icon in tray area (next to system clock) is always there. Closing or selecting anything brings no effect.  How to get rid of this reminder, so it would be closed permanently and never show up again?
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This icon showed up in my taskbar notification area today and I cannot seem to get rid of it:    Clicking on it displays the following screen:    So how do I disable or remove the "Get Windows 10" icon?
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Normally, to refresh the icon cache in Windows, we have to reboot.  Is there a way to refresh the icon cache in Windows 7/8 without rebooting?
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My Reminders app is showing 6 reminders, but as far as I know, I have none. I've checked the completed file, checked in iCal on the Mac. Any ideas how to delete these reminders?
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On previous versions I had the date displayed. Now it just shows the current day but not the day's number or the month.   Is there a way to customize the clock or tray/taskbar more in GNOME shell on Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
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After the last Windows update (), I got this weather icon on the taskbar and clicking on it shows the news, weather and traffic information. How can I remove it?
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I'm working on re-purposing a Win10 laptop that has some security feature whereby all USB disks have to be approved and registered. I cannot remove that feature because I cannot see which app, service or setting is doing it. When I plug in a USB disk I get a pop-up saying the disk is not registered and cannot be used etc. The pop-up just sits there. I open Task Manager and it just has those zillion processes running. None of their names or resource usage patterns tips me off as the process that is displaying that pop-up. If I press alt-tab it just shows that pop-up as one of the running Apps but no indication of the name or location of any of the Apps. If there's visibly a Window opened up on your desktop is there a way to track down which App owns or opened that Window?  BTW it's not a browser or browser notification.  It has to be some kind of background security SW. A friend of mine was gifted her work laptop when she got laid off with the caveat that it was strictly as is. The thing is like Fort Knox and I've been unraveling all their security stuff. But I cannot find the origin or enforcer of this USB limitation.
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I want to get Windows 10, but I do not see this icon in the notification area (tray):    How do I get the icon to get Windows 10?
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I can say " Add call friend to my Work list " and Siri will add that reminder to the specific reminder list WORK. However, if I imply any time, it will add it as a calendar entry. Yet when I say " remind me to call friend on Thursday ", Siri will add the reminder on that day and at 9AM ...   But I would like to choose my own date and time for reminders while specifying which reminder list it goes in, how can I accomplish this ?  EDIT  I managed to find this method :   Me : Remind me to call friend on thursday at 11am Siri : Here is your reminder, shall I create it ? Me : Move it to my name list   And then the reminder is moved to your specific list. However, I would rather avoid having to do this longwinded method, is there a way to skip step 2 and combine them all in one sentence ?
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I am upgrading my PC, but I'm sticking to my old HDD and gfx card. I would like to avoid reinstalling Win 8. Is this possible? Or, at least, is it possible to use Windows 8's refresh pc option?  UPDATE  It worked like a charm. Windows acted as if it was the first boot and displayed the "Getting devices ready %  " progress bar. I am not sure if this proves you can do it in every scenario, but my new gear is relatively modern (some gigabyte board with two PCIe 3.0 slots and USB 3.0 support + i5), so I guess we can agree the reinstall is unnecessary in most cases.
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A few months ago, I started getting these pop-ups from evolution-alarm-notify. They are some kind of calendar reminder. But they are horribly inaccurate. They either don't reflect any changes I have made to calendar events or they include all previous versions of the events and may or may not include the current version of those events. And I can't seem to mark events as complete in the evolution-alarm-notify window. I don't need these pop-ups and would prefer to just make them go away permanently. I don't have the Evolution mail app installed, and can't find an evolution-alarm-notify app on my system. So how do I get rid of evolution-alarm notify? Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS GNOME 3.36.8 Dell Precision 7740
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I am running Windows 8.1 Single Language for about a year now and although Windows 10 is due to release tomorrow, I've decided to put things on hold for a while and stick to Windows 8.1.  So I canceled my reservation for Windows 10 through the "Get Windows 10" app but something unusual happened today. I've noticed some network activity that consumed quite a bit of bandwidth. I narrowed it down to a Windows Update which has failed to install. Turns out it was named "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home Single Language". Here is a screenshot from the reliability monitor:    This download consumed almost 2.5GB before it failed to install. But now it has started downloading again. What do i do?
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Windows 8.1 "installed updates" is one of two confusingly similar screens that let you view installed updates. It is the only non-useless one, because you can actually uninstall from this one. However it seems that there is some mandatory category groups that can not be removed, like "Microsoft Windows" and "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010", and so on. Hundreds of these categories.  Clicking on the "installed on" column only sorts items within their existing groups, making the sort feature useless for finding what was installed on what day, as you now have to consult each of 200 "group" sections and you can only sort INSIDE the groups. How do I turn off this "grouping" feature within Installed Updates, or otherwise see the most recently installed updates, by date, across all the categories or groups?  There is an Organize button, which is tantalizing, but the Organize button contains no way to hide the category names.    How can I see the most recent day (today, yesterday, 3 days ago) that any update was installed regardless of categories that they are sorted permanently into?  Known Workaround: Use the otherwise worthless "View update history" window instead.  (Review your windows update history). Then obtain a piece of paper and a pen, and write down the meaningless 10 digit KB number, then go find the meaningless 10 digit number in the other screen, and remove it.
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As of today, my Windows 8 system is displaying a large banner covering about a quarter of the screen, demanding that I upgrade to Windows 8.1 for free.  The banner helpfully informs me that that I can continue to use the computer while the upgrade is downloading.  There's a button to go to the store for the upgrade, but no other choices, such as No Thanks, Maybe Later, or Absolutely Not.    I can't find a way to dismiss the banner, and I can start programs but can't give them focus while the banner is present.  So I'm dead in the water.  How can I fix this?  Bringing up Task Manager doesn't give me any options.    My employer doesn't yet support Windows 8.1 (which is also an issue, but beyond my control) so I won't be able to connect to work if install the upgrade.  So there is no way on God's green earth that I'm going to install this upgrade now.    UPDATE: The banner went away after the second restart and I was able to run regedit as @magicandre suggested.  The banner hasn't reappeared.  So far, so good.
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Recently as per this       For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through   Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by   downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade.   but Microsoft seems to be downloading hidden update in windows 7 :  according to this  :     An INQUIRER reader pointed out to us that, despite not having   'reserved' a copy of Windows 10, he had found that the ~BT folder,   which has been the home of images of the new operating system since   before rollout began, had appeared on his system. He had no plans to   upgrade and had not put in a reservation request.   As per the above two articles there was hidden update for windows 10 with respective to windows 7 and 8 machines ,whats the effective way to stop this hidden update?  right now i cant disable windows update since i wish to patch my system with latest updates,  i checked the question which was marked as possible  :     inorder to clarify how it differs it talks about the cancelled update   ,but this was latest issue which was araised two days before,i didnt   dig much about that and believe both were different ,apart from that   it was about after the cancellation of update a   nd this one was about preventing such an update from downloading to my pc  any suggestions to avoid this update?
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So I took a plunge and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my main home PC. So far so good, but there is one annoyance - the system "locks" the computer after a period of inactivity causing me to re-enter my password.  I really would like to avoid this, but have no idea how. I already tried the power settings (no pass on wake up) and the screen saver settings with no luck. Is this some sort of bug, or am I missing something?  P.S. In this case I favor convenience over security.
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I have Ubuntu 18.04 and I just received a notification that I can upgrade to Pop!_OS 19.10. Why in the world would this happen? Did I break my system? Has anyone else had something similar happen?  The only thing I have installed from Pop!_OS is their icon theme. Could it be because I have their ppa on my system? How can I clear this notification and request to update?
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One of my family members has a Windows (Vista) machine which is waking itself up from hibernation in an annoying fashion. Some investigation suggests that Windows Update is the guilty party - it doesn't happen every day, but when it does it's always at the time set for Windows Update to install updates at, and the WindowsUpdate.log file says that it's woken the machine in order to install updates.  I suspect I can fix this by changing it to not install updates automatically, but I'd really rather that I didn't have to. I would prefer if there was some option to simply not wake the machine for it, but I can't see such a thing.  Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? There are quite a few mentions of this kind of thing on the internet but I haven't found any real answers yet.