I allowed Windows 10 update on my Windows 7.  Later I wanted to stop this update.   Right now I have Windows 7 as desired, but I guess, that win10 update is on my drive, because I have got 10gb of free space, and now 4 gb.  Where can I find downloaded files of Windows 10 update, and delete them?
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I cancelled the Microsoft Windows 10 Reservation and uninstalled KB3035583, but Windows 10 is still trying to install.   After I uninstalled KB3035583 and restarted my laptop as instructed, I could not find KB3035583 to hide it.   Now Windows 10 is sitting in my Windows Update saying that it will install when I restart my computer.
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On my Windows 7 PC, the free disk space has gone down by 1GB even though I haven't downloaded or installed any new files and I haven't downloaded any updates or other things? What could have made the disk space go down for apparently no reason? Is this the result of some sort of a spy program that is undetectable?
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I am currently running Windows 8.1 Pro, with BitLocker enabled (the hardware has no TPM, though).  I am curious as to whether I will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 when it is rolled out without having to disable BitLocker/decrypt the hard drive.  Windows Updates obviously work fine with BitLocker, but as I have not beta tested Windows 10 I have no idea whether I will need to decrypt the drive before upgrading the system to Windows 10 or not.  Any and all information is appreciated!
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I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment, I have listed a Product Key but no download link in sight.   Where do I download my Windows 7 ISO to burn to disk?  Note: I'm not a Technet or MSDN subscriber.
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I am currently able to boot from an external drive or multiboot USB. Taking this concept one step further, I have 3 questions:   1) Is it possible to install and run Windows 10 on a portable external hard drive or USB card with the same functionality of being installed on the internal drive?   2) Is it considered legal to do so or will it affect Windows updates in any way?   3) What are the steps to do that? (please outline steps I can follow so I don't lose a drive in the process). :)  EDIT: My question deals specifically with Windows 10, the legality and method of making it a standalone OS running from an external device and what effect if any it has on Windows Update; questions not dealt with in the other question.
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I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview).  Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new hard drive, which has been connected to the computer (unpartitioned). I don't mind and I even prefer reinstalling it over again.   Since I have the free version of Windows 10 pro, can I still reinstall it anew? Does the windows 10 installation offer disk management and partition like the older Windows installations used to? How should I reinstall Winodws 10 x64 the easiest but still remain on free mode?
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I am trying to upgrade my Win7 system to Windows 10 (because I am, apparently, masochistic). It's not working, locking up at about 30 to 35%, requiring me to reset, which then backs out the upgrade.  The whole process takes about three to four hours. A large part of this is having to download 3.5GB of upgrade every time, because Microsoft's tool doesn't cache the install files.  The tool has an option to create a bootable USB stick, which I can use to do an install. This should be way faster.  However, Microsoft seem really firm that if I want to get my free upgrade, I need to pick to 'Upgrade this PC' option from the upgrade tool. This seems peculiar. Can anyone confirm (i.e. who actually knows from first hand knowledge) whether upgrading from a USB stick actually works?
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I want to use the "reset my PC" feature of Windows 10 to wipe the data on my Windows partition. But I have also a Linux system installed, which I want to keep.  Will Windows 10's full reset wipe all my disk, or just Windows's partitions ?
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The Windows 10 October 2018 update (v1809) rollout got cancelled multiple times, however you can still get the ISO files of it. Is it somehow possible to update using the ISO files (without losing files) or to enforce an update over windows update?  I don't want to do a clean install because it would take me multiple days on the machine I want to upgrade, however I need to upgrade it because of some bugs fixed in the latest version.
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What options, if any, exist for offline update of Microsoft  Windows?  If a solution exists please list your experience using it.    Background:  If for any reason a computer does not have a connection to  the Internet or the connection is too slow to download  several hundreds of megabytes every so often some kind of  offline Windows Update is required.  In a multi-computer environment a lot of bandwidth (and thus in some cases money) and/or  time could also be saved if it is possible to update in an  offline manner.
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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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After a fresh Windows install – XP or 7 – how can I "force" Windows updates?   I don't want to have "old" Windows updates after a week, so could it be done in "one step"? Are there any "magical" commands that force Windows to check for updates, and if there are any, install them?
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I recently did a clean install of Windows 10, overwriting Ubuntu. How did Windows find out that I had activated Windows 10 before on my computer? It didn't ask me for a product key, but it is activated.
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I'm getting really tired of unchecking the same Windows Update candidates so save hundreds of MB's of dowbloads, especially for programs I never use, that are in fact not even installed, and those I don't wish to update.  Is there any way to permanently, or until another explicit change, to turn off certain updates?  There is an option called 'Hide update', but that unsettles me a bit.
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I have two Windows 7, one in drive C and other in drive D. I use the one in drive D. I want to remove the one present in drive C, to find more free disk space.   But I cannot delete the Windows folder present in drive C. It says you need permission something. Also when my computer starts it asks me which OS I want to use, the two OS names are the same "Windows 7". I chose the upper one, this is the one present in Drive D. However when  I choose the other one that does not run, computer restarts after sometime before logging in. This is because I have deleted everything associated with the previous Windows, except the Windows folder. Because I can not delete it.   How can I delete this Windows folder present in drive C, which I cannot use ( and I don't want to use). Please tell me the simple way, ASAP.
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I've now clicked the "Get windows 10" button on the taskbar of my Windows 7 Home Premium installation, and gotten the email confirming I'm eligible for a free Windows 10 upgrade.  says I'll need the License Key if I'm doing a "first time installation":      If you will be installing the operating system for the first time, you will need your Windows product key (xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx). For more information about product keys and when they are required, visit the FAQ page.   Even though I proceeded to read the FAQ, it's not perfectly clear to me if the product key on a sticker of my old Windows 7 box can be used on a clean Windows 10 installation, or if I'll receive a new license key some time during the installation. Anyone know this?
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This is a Q&amp;A that I recently have figured out, so I have posted the answer below.  After installing Windows 10, every time I get a kernel update or I run the update-grub2 it always shows Windows 7 or Windows Recovery Environment instead of Windows 10.  How do I fix this permanently?