David,
I would also recommend that you go into the Windows update settings and
uncheck the box that says "give me recommended updates the same way that I
receive important updates". This will prevent KB3035583 from automatically
being installed. I am not pleased that Microsoft decided to push out this
"marketing" patch, with out the computer user being required to accept the
patch. I have had numerous calls from clients over the past week, in a panic
about the icon that has appeared in the system tray. All of them have
avoided Windows 8/8.1 and they were in a panic that they were being updated
to Windows 10. Everything has consequences and Microsoft did not think this
marketing move through. This little move is already tainting what might end
up being a really good OS.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ferrin" <ow...@jaws-users.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] the get windows 10 prompt and C P U usage
After removing the get windows 10 prompt from his system tray the CPU
usage
has dropped back down to normal.
Trust me this system has nothing extra to spare at all.
In case anybody is interested for your reading and relaxing pleasure he
says
in jest:
Removing KB3035583
To remove KB3035583, first open Windows Update and click "Installed
Updates"
in the bottom-left
corner.
To quickly find KB3035583, you can sort by name. Once you've located it,
right-click and choose
"Uninstall".
When you select to uninstall this update, you'll be asked to confirm and
then you will need to
restart your computer.
Once your computer restarts, the "GWX.exe" and its associated "GWXUX.exe"
applications will be
removed and the system tray icon and resulting dialog will go away
permanently.
If the Icon Returns
Some readers have noted that KB3035583 returns if you don't hide it. If
you
have Windows updates
set to download and install automatically, this means that if you
uninstall
this update, it will
be reinstalled automatically a few days later.
To hide the KB3035583 update and prevent it from being reinstalled,
right-click on it in the
Windows Update application and select "Hide update".
After, the update's selection box will be grayed out and cannot be
checked.
From hereon, the
update will be hidden whenever you reopen Windows Update unless you decide
to restore it.
Icon Still Won't Go Away?
There's also a registry hack that you can use to prevent the icon from
showing up.
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.
David Ferrin
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved
from
a simpler system that worked perfectly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ferrin" <ow...@jaws-users.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 7:58 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] the get windows 10 prompt and C P U usage
I'm wondering if these items are related or not. I mention this since I
have
a system here from a guy next door and he says for the past week more or
less processor usage keeps hitting 100% with nothing running.
I have removed a junk yard of temp files and worthless programs off the
system but processor usage still peeks out once in a while. Honestly I
have
never seen disk cleanup remove 16.7 GB of for the lack of a better term
trash.
I also removed 39 programs from the system he no longer needs. So any
thoughts on the matter boys and girls.
David Ferrin
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved
from
a simpler system that worked perfectly.
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