Windows – How to kill the Windows 10 Upgrade window

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So the upgrade was downloaded and ready to be installed. I clicked the Let's Continue button because I was sure it wouldn't immediately start upgrading and I just wanted to see what was next. After it "prepared my computer" for the upgrade it got me to these 2 screens. As you can see there is no way to exit the window…

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I tried to kill the Windows Update process in the Task Manager.

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It does kill the window, except it just starts up again at the first screen.

I don't want to upgrade yet and I was confident that it would let me cancel.. Do I have to live with this window now?

Best Answer

I have decided to convert my comment into an answer in case the link goes dead and for better visibility.

If You want to kill the Windows 10 upgrade window, You need to do these steppes one by one until it stops pestering You:

  • Click customize in the system tray and turn off the Get Windows 10 app notification.

  • Go to windows updates and uninstall KB3035583

  • Open up regedit.exe using the Start search or by hitting WIN + R and pasting it into the field. Then browse down to the following key, creating it if it doesn’t exist: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx

    Once you are there, create a new 32-bit DWORD value on the right-hand side named DisableGwx, and give it a value of 1

step by step guide and source:
http://www.howtogeek.com/218856/how-do-you-disable-the-get-windows-10-icon-shown-in-the-notification-tray/

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