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I also run Win 8.1. A couple of weeks ago, I configured the task bar re Win 10 icon: "Don't display icon and notifications". I also deleted the file GWX.exe in the Windows folder.
Since then GWX.exe has not been re-installed and the icon is gone.
:Whisper: Don't tell Microsoft! :/Whisper: 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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KB3035583 will come back I have uninstalled it several times.
What is more worrying is the hidden folder on the C:\~BT drive which chewed up about 2 GB on my hard drive before I spotted it.
Managed to stop that with a registry entry but I am annoyed that this was being dumped on my machine despite not asking to reserve a copy or agreeing to any form of download.
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Tony Hill wrote: the C:\~BT drive which chewed up about 2 GB
Thanks for the heads up. Though it is too late for me.
I just installed WinX on my machine and it just now finished over my high-speed network and i7 8GB machine.
Sheesh.
Also, I checked and I have that folder and it is...
over 4GB in size. What?!
Microsoft, I upgraded, please stop hurting me now.
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But wait, there's more.
I just noticed that I also have an
c:\ESD directory.
It looks like the stuff you can use to build a USB boot (recovery) drive.
It's 3.5GB and it was created today -- I'm assuming when I installed Win10.
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On Win7 I have had no issues after uninstalling and hiding the update.
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Watch for it. I had hidden the update two times before (on my Win8.1) and it came back twice.
Terrible.
I upgraded to WinX today.
Ah, well, we have been assimilated and we are one now.
Mic-ro-soft. Mic-ro-soft. I hear and obey.
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Yeah, after I responded earlier, I checked my Win 7 systems and saw that it had become unhidden on one of them.
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Yep, it's a dirty trick, really. Just annoying and stupid.
I mean if I as a user go to the trouble of hiding the update then don't play games with my system and change it without me knowing. At the least popup a dialog and tell me what you are doing or send me an email or something.
Sheesh, Microsoft.
On the other hand...
We have been assimilated and all that we do is fine with us. Mic-ro-soft, I hear and obey.
I'm Win10 now.
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My curiosity got the better of me and I upgraded one machine in our house to Win 10. Everything works fine so far, but I have about 8GB less spare on my systems drive. I suspect Win 8 has been saved somewhere, in case I want to go back.
Now to wipe the partition and do a fresh install from a DVD. It's just the fact that I will have to re-install and update all the apps and in my case that can take a couple of days! I wonder if it is worth the effort?
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Yeah, I looked at a CTP of Win10 and it looked fine. Way better than 8. But Win7 is working fine and it's what's on my work laptop too, so I have no need for Win10 at this time.
Yet I might put it on my "database server" which I rarely log into.
What I would like is some sort of small home-network domain server.
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Thanks for the tip, but I am already halfway through installing my apps on a clean install of Win 10. So far I like 10, Its user interface is a bit bland, but it seems to work well. The installation of Win 10 on a wiped partition was very quick and uneventful.
Like PIEBALDconsult said above, I just like a clean install of the operating system.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: I just like a clean install of the operating system.
I agree. I did a clean install on another laptop (old celeron, 4GB ram, running Win7) and it all went very well and that laptop works quite well.
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Firewall them out. Works fine - only a couple of times I had to update some components and sweared for 15 minutes before remembering I had the firewall mode set to EX-TER-MI-NATE.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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If you disable auto-updates in Win 8.1, but enable notifications, you can then choose to never install KB3035583.
I'm waiting until next year before I upgrade: right now Win X smells like a beta to me.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have been assimilated.
I upgraded and I am typing this from Chrome on WinX.
Resistance is futile, human!!
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Resistance is a turn-on. Thank you, sir, I'd like another!
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Resistance is futile! 
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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It's 01:25 here is beautiful downtown Aussie, roughly 1 hour 05 minutes till the telecast kicks off here.
I've been off the piss for a week since the boy and I joined a gym this week. 19 years and 11 months since I last trained according to my training journal I found out in the garage.
I phoned my Welsh mate Geraint from Abergwynfi Cape to taunt him, but he was at work and I had to gee up his Aussie Missus to give hime some sh*t. He should be home in 35 minutes and I will call him again.
I have cracked open a new 1125ml bottle of Bundy OP and should be in good spirits for the phone call. I reckon I will be in deep sh*t in the morning as when we win I will be a tad loud and wake the house up.
Faarrrkkkk you Paul, y'all gonna lose.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It ain't over till it's over (and the Fat Lady Sings).
We'll see who wins in a couple of hours...and I'm not hoping it's the Wallabies. (I was a Wallabies fan for one day only - last Saturday. Nicely done, cobbers!  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: I was a Wallabies fan for one day only
Really? I thought you was English.
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I support Wales, and whoever is playing against England!
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OriginalGriff wrote: whoever is playing against England
I'm going to call you Jeremy Corbyn from now on. Seriously I understand the supporting Wales bit, I have an 'English' friend who has Welsh parents and he supports Wales, but England is his second team. Just because you support Wales doesn't mean you have to hate England. How can you want the Country of your birth(and the one I assume you lived in most of your life, or at least was brought up in) to lose?
I have no ties to any of the other home countries, but like most Englishman, whatever the sport(rugby, wendyball, tiddlywinks) I always support the other home nations (with the exception of when they play England). I don't think the Celts realise how much of a compliment it is that they actively support the other team!
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Is that "Old North Wales"?
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