[NTeyeball]

Hi all,
Sorry to have to resort to "having a winge" on your forum but I am absolutely fed up with MS continually upgrading to win10 when I say No!
I tend to around 15 PCs all set up for Office situations, all running Win7 HP 64bit.
This week I have lost another office PC, which I cannot afford. Windows update has auto updated to win10 which in my opinion is totally unsuitable for this office. virtually hijacking my office. PCs are useless after returning to 10 option.

How do I stop this???
I want my office data to stay "private"
After win 10 takes over I lose all emails, network links etc and have to wipe/re-install win7 from disc, and takes nearly all day to perform.

Why is this happening?? I don't want win 10, I have not tablets/androids its an office, PCs only,MYOB, MS Office, other database programs that cost thousands

Please help or point me to a place where I can report directly to MS and get some response.
Thanks guys
NT:angry:

 

[Masterchiefxx17]

Regarding your title of this post, my words are "good luck". Not even the United States Government won their case against Microsoft. While I understand your title is more of a hypothetical statement, you should understand that the amount of recourses needed to sue Microsoft would be astronomical.

As for your situation, I am sorry to say this, but this may be of your business's own IT internal failure here. While that sounds very rude and blameful, let me explain.

The Windows 10 upgrade push was sent to all Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines after July 2015. Enterprise copies did not receive the update at first. This update should be stopped in your companies Windows Update Server or Group Policy. There was and still is more than enough time to prevent installs of Windows 10. I manage more PCs than the 15 you list and not one has been pushed to Windows 10, even on those that have an upgrade button.

There was an "accidental" push by Microsoft a while back, but it certainly should not be happening to any PC as of now. Are you sure that your users are not clicking this update?

As for stopping the update, why not just uninstall the KB and set it to hide in Windows Update? This would prevent it from downloading and "accidentally" installing itself.

Why would you go through a whole wipe of the system after a Windows 10 upgrade? Windows 10 has a revert option built in that restored the system back to Windows 7 and restored all of your settings.

Another thing, Windows 10 should keep all of your supported software including your personal settings. Saying that you lose your network and emails does not sound right.

Windows 10 is not for tablets. It's well used and like by Laptop and Desktop users. Did you actually give it a try?

 

[NTeyeball]

Hi Masterchief,
Thanks for the reply. The machines are a progression build, that is buy as require over a 2 yr period, purchased as stand alone's, so no server, just a company NAS drive.
Yes I had myself and staff try both the win8 and 10 releases with a lot of issues for staff, for me I could find nothing I need and on my home machine it continually tried to store docs etc online, which was not on.
As for the revert option, that's when I lost the emails and network links, so I don't understand how some do, and some don't?? Either way its very time consuming to rectify.
maybe the uninstall KB (which one) will work? Do you have a "how2" link please.
Thanks
NT

 

[jenae]

Hi, you can copy this to notepad save it, call it OSupgrade.reg and run it on your machines, it stops the upgrade(although windows ten, should be able to do whatever you want, it is a learning curve, in my opinion it is the best OS yet)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001