Funny... I have 3 win7pro. None of them have come up with the option to install Win10. Welll... that was true. I just did an update and load and behold, there it is! Still not doing it though. I have it on a couple of my other non-essential computers. They have been fine. The oldest one, it didn't really help it out. Still slow and clunky. The other seems to be okay.
My field laptop, and my netbook are not hardware compatible for the upgrade. My office laptop is, but I have held off so far.
Once WIN10 had downloaded to my WIN7 PC the only option was upgrade now or postpone for a limited time, I think it was three days max. I postponed it a few times and then one morning I came into the office AND it had done the upgrade overnight, so I rolled with it, didn't have much choice, work had to be done. The good part is almost everything worked including printers that are a number of years old and software that is 15 years old, of course some older software won't work, but that was the case in WIN7 too since any 64 bit os is too new for it!
Recently I discovered that if you have the hardware and a version of WIN10 that supports Hyper-V, you can load WIN XP or I suppose other older os to run a virtual install for the old software, not quite as integrated as XP Mode in WIN7 (which BTW was dead after the WIN10 upgrade), but I think a workaround at least. I haven't figured out the integration between the host and guest systems yet, I think I needed to establish those connections BEFORE loading XP...
SHG
Keep your install disks for all your programs and/or copy the install data for them to your archive hard drives.
I got a notice to upgrade my NERO disk burner and it took me to the newest version that does not work on XP machines.
IN the future, if they can not taker over your computer, they are going to limit its use..............
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There is some information here about removing the icon and stopping the update:
I've run the GWX Control Panel software on my machines, and it seems to work.
