Good morning.  Since I started here a lot of computers are getting Windows 10 prompts.  I have done everything I can think of to get rid of them but they continue to be a pest.  Here is what I have done:  Verified not in WSUS  Disable next Windows Upgrade in GPO is enabled  Set a specific Intranet location for updates in WSUS  Created the DisableGWX Key  Made sure computers are in correct category in Active Directory to apply GPO  When I check the computers 3035583 is installed.  I go through the uninstall and reboot but it continues to reinstall automatically.  WSUS does not have 3035583 listed and I cannot find it in the catalog either to download and decline it.  I dont know what to do from here.
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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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As a small software development company, we run a few Windows production webservers and manually install Microsoft updates and security patches. Most of the time, a restart is required.   After the updates are installed and the server asks for a restart, is the server during the time between this message and the restart somehow more vulnerable, or is it perfectly in order to delay the restart (and the security level remains the same as before)?
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Update I was able to get Readiness Tool to run but not the update Now the reediness tool will not even run Security Essentials will run    I have legal Windows 7 to install Do you think that is safe bet to try?    Had some performance issue so I ran MalwareBytes and Security Essentials.     It found some malware that was successfully removed.    I was able to Update Security Essentials and I ran it again for safety and it found nothing additions.     The last successful Windows Update was 5 days ago     Checking for Updates has been running 6 hours CPU 100%  network 0%     Windows6.0-KB947821-v35-x86.mnu fails to install It is supposed to be a tool to address update problems   I fear the registry got hacked to prevent updates     What can I do?  I know Vista.  I got it free.
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I am trying to disable Windows 10 start menu search web results on Windows 10 professional v2004 slow ring preview release build 19033.1.  Here is a list of things that do not work for me:  [DISABLE WINDOWS WEB SEARCH ON REGISTRY EDITOR]  I've googled how to get rid of windows 10 search web results and tried the suggested registry editor hacks on:|  Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search    Setting CortanaConsent and BingSearchEnabled to DWORD32  value 0 but they are not working.   [REWRITE ENDPOINTS]   I've even tried to rewrite all bing.com endpoints in windows (WTF most of them are HTTP, not HTTPS! Anyone can sniff those searchs on an unsecured WiFi network!) but they are restored on windows restart.   [REMOVE EDGE AS DEFAULT APP]   I've tried to restrict edge in every way I could and removing it from default apps but the bastard keeps popping up every time I make a typo while trying to search/run something on my local system.   [RESTRICT CORTANA AND EDGE USING FIREWALL RULES]   I've disabled windows firewall rules allowing outbound and inbound connections for Edge and Cortana. Still no effect.   Are there any other more current hacks that would work on this release?
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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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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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I followed the instructions in  to   Once I installed Windows I found that I have to press F10 to select the hard drive every single time to make it boot into Windows. I tried re-enabling Secure Boot but then I am unable to find the hard drive in the bootable devices list.  What should I do?    my labtop is sumsang core i3  i mean that when i wanted to change my windows i can not find cd-rom in the list of F10 i saw the Instructions of this link    i Succeeded to do that and i changed my windows but then i can not go to windows automatically  I had to press F10 to select hard drive and i can go to windows i want To what it was before so I make secure boot (enabled) but I can't find hard drive on the list of F10.  maybe i Erred in doing my new windows  If i changed my windows again i can go to windows automatically or not  please i wait your advice and Instructions
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I have on my desk a computer that I am reinstalling. I have just completed the Windows XP install , which is professional service pack 3. I have also installed an AV package.   Now it is time to install the audio and display drivers. Windows Update does not detect the Display card, and neither the audio device.   I really have no idea what devices are present in this system, and I am thinking of opening the case, and reading some IDs from the cards themselves. Before I do this, is there not some kind of tool that can automatically detect hardware and install drivers automatically. If not then at least tell me what devices are present, with some real descriptions, so I can search for drivers.
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When I was running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, I had UAC disabled and everything was working smoothly for me. Now I've updated to Windows 10 Pro 32-bit (and recently also the 2015-11 update), I'm having a few issues. Although I have UAC set to "Never notify" in Control Panel, I find that certain activities are still fettered by UAC. For example, Windows Explorer doesn't let me create a file in certain folders, such as C:.  I use the Command Prompt quite a lot. In Windows 7, with UAC turned to "Never notify", Command Prompt automatically started as Administrator; whereas under Windows 10 I have to explicitly right-click and choose "Run as Administrator". More annoyingly, when I connect to the Windows 10 machine from another PC, using NET USE with my username for the target machine, I don't have access to do anything in folders that need admin access. I haven't found a workaround for this.  Is there a way to completely turn off UAC in Windows 10, so that I can do all admin tasks easily?
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Whenever a search is performed in Windows 7 on a folder that is not indexed, Windows throws up a banner at the top of the Explorer window (below the address bar) blabbing about Indexing and asking you to turn it on and index the folder:    After the thousandth or so time, that warning/prompt/banner flashing and its [x] needing to be clicked gets to be really annoying. I heard you the first time!!!  Worse, this still occurs even when the Indexing service is disabled, and Indexing is un-selected and all of the relevant options.  (Windows is acting like a stupid person who cannot understand a simple concept like yes, I heard you the first thousand times, but no, I don’t want to use it, now leave me alone! and so keeps bugging you anyway.)  Is there a way to disable the banner short of hacking explorer.exe?  What’s particularly aggravating is that I have already disabled and removed the Indexer from Windows and yet it still tries to use it and then complains when it can’t. Well duh; it’s been removed:
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I get these all of the time. I am guessing they are Windows Update, but why they are writing to the root of my secondary hard drive I do not know. The partition is not marked as a system partition. Any idea what these are and how to get rid of them permanently?   Directory of E:\  11/19/2009  09:57 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          37d32bf0bb1d8cfe965e970f000a609d 11/19/2009  06:10 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          ac8cc0e29dcc41086f66989ebd 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.1028.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.1031.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            10,134 eula.1033.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.1036.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.1040.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM               118 eula.1041.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.1042.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.2052.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM            17,734 eula.3082.txt 11/07/2007  08:00 AM             1,110 globdata.ini 11/07/2007  08:44 AM           855,040 install.exe 11/07/2007  08:00 AM               843 install.ini 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            75,280 install.res.1028.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            95,248 install.res.1031.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            90,128 install.res.1033.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            96,272 install.res.1036.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            94,224 install.res.1040.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            80,400 install.res.1041.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            78,864 install.res.1042.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            74,768 install.res.2052.dll 11/07/2007  08:44 AM            95,248 install.res.3082.dll
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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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I cannot get new updates via Windows Update because the OS requires to restart - to finish previous/current installing stuff I guess.  The restart requirement is as below snapshot.  How can I make my Windows keep restarting loop automatically until no restart requirement is required?
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My server rebooted and I am not sure why.  Is there a way to find out, e.g. perhaps someone did it manually, or as a result of a windows update or a blue screen?  I've looked in the Event Viewer, but I am not sure what to look for - there are million items there.
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I keep getting this window titles "Windows Features" It then says that:     An app on your PC needs the following Windows feature:      .NET Framework 3.5 (Includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)   and I can choose to install or skip (being warned that my apps might not work correctly).  There is also a "telll me more about this feature" link but it explains about the .NET framework.  I want to know if there is a way for me to know which application is it that asks for this feature as the window just keeps popping out of the context of activating a new app...  This all started just a few days ago after some unattended update on my windows 10.
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One of our remote Windows 7 Professional users just reported that he received an Upgrade Reservation Offer for Windows 10. It appears the  running in his system tray is legit. So far, this is only seems to be hitting  devices that are not domain-joined.  Short of uninstalling/hiding the Windows Update that enabled the upgrade, is there any way to disable the Upgrade App (and of course the upgrade itself)?
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I find that at the end of a long day, I sometimes have a large number of programs running. All which I will need to use tomorrow. Normally, this isn't an issue, I can simply lock the machine and come back tomorrow. My problem arrises when windows update launches in the middle of the night and force restarts my computer. That in turns closes all my open software. I of course save everything regularly so I don't loose anything, but I waste time reopening all of those resources whenever there is a restart.   [EDIT]  I should clarify that I still want to be able to restart my computer when an update comes down. Preventing the restart only delays the problem until later. I should have been more specific in that I want to be able to recover my working environment after a restart for any reason. Things like scheduled maintence, power loss, updates, and software installs.  [EDIT]  I can't simply have them setup to launch at startup becasuse those files change from week to week. So I need something that monitors what I have open, and gives me the option to "recover" those software sessions when I log back in.  Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? I'd even be willing to purchase software to do this for me if that is the only option.  Thanks