Monday, August 31, 2015

Protecting Windows 7 and 8 From Windows 10

Yes, they're going to keep pushing win10 updates and telemetry. But here's a way to clean your windows machine of upgrade and telemetry updates with what we know today:
[Don't do this if you ever plan to upgrade to 10]
wusa /uninstall /KB:2952664 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:2990214 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3021917 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3022345 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3035583 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3044374 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3068708 /norestart /quiet 
wusa /uninstall /KB:3075249 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /KB:3080149 /norestart /quiet
You can save that as a .bat file and run it. You may need to run as administrator. Or you can just run each command in the console (drop /quiet to see output).
Go back into the windows update tool, find any of these numbers, then right-click and select "Hide update". You won't see it offered again (unless they change the KB number).
Links to KB pages:
KB cleaning reddit threads that I found:

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