Microsoft Silently Re-Enables Windows 10 Upgrades on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs – Report

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Redmond getting ready to upgrade PCs to Windows 10

Microsoft's getting ready for the more aggressive upgrade phase of Windows 10 – when the new OS will show up first as optional, and then as recommended download in Windows Update – so the company has recently made some changes to Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs to make sure that more computers get it.

Basically, settings on PCs that were previously configured not to receive the upgrade to Windows 10 have been reset and it appears that one of the updates that Microsoft deployed on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs keeps checking every day to make sure that no other changes are made to this behavior.

Update being re-offered several times

The information comes from the creator of GWX Control Panel, an application developed to block the upgrade to Windows 10.

Microsoft Silently Re-Enables Windows 10 Upgrades on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs ? Report

 

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Microsoft is back on the warpath with 'additional upgrade scenarios' for forced Windows 10 downloads

Reports are emerging that Microsoft has once again renamed and relaunched its Windows 10 upgrade files for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, apparently in an attempt to circumvent increasing push back from users who aren't ready to move to Windows 10.

Computing last reported on the phenomenon back in October, when a "snooping patch" and "scanning program" being added to Microsoft's Windows Update Client salvo, their filenames subtly changed from the initial set that Microsoft provided before Windows 10's release.

Speaking to ComputerWorld, Josh Mayfield - who created an application known as GWX Control Panel specifically to combat Windows 10 ‘forced' downloads - said that he began "getting reports" over Thanksgiving weekend that the "AllowOSUpgrade" setting on Windows that his application disables was being reawakened, even resetting itself once a day if users switched it off.

"This is new behavior, and it does leave your PC vulnerable to unwanted Windows 10 upgrade behavior," summarised Mayfield.

Microsoft is back on the warpath with 'additional upgrade scenarios' for forced Windows 10 downloads - 08 Dec 2015 - Computing News