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https://www.grc.com/never10.htm https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
by curiousgal 10y ago
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
- trhway 10y agoexactly - either forced upgrade or downloading and running some utility from a site/company i see for the first time and have never heard about :)
- TillE 10y agoSteve Gibson is a little strange, but he's trustworthy.
- xufi 10y agoYep, I have to say the second I heard about GRC and discovered the software he made such as SpinRIte for HDD"s I was hooked
- curiousgal 10y agoYou can check the technical details https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm It basically does what Microsoft would do in order to keep Windows from upgrading.
- morganvachon 10y agoSteve Gibson is one of the most trusted developers of the past few decades. His SpinRite software is a life saver. Please read about him before dismissing him out of hand because you've not heard of him. There's more to the world than what's inside your box.
- dghughes 10y ago>Never10 does NOT prevent the installation of Windows updates, including the infamous Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583. Never10 simply employs Microsoft's documented and sanctioned configuration settings to instruct it NOT to change the installed version of Windows. That would not have helped in this situation OP stated what hurt them was the huge amount bandwidth (6GB) used on an account where they pay per MB.
- Veratyr 10y agoWhat it actually does [0] is set group policy according to the Microsoft specified methods [1]. It would have helped in this situation as not only would Windows not have downloaded the update in the first place, it would have deleted it had it already been somehow downloaded. [0]: https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351