Hi Ed, From: Rick Justice File started: 7:53 AM 6/9/2015
If you are tired of seeing the "Get Windows 10", icon in the system tray, here's how to get rid of it. 1. Navigate to Windows Update, and then select " change settings". 2. In the resulting dialogue, make sure that "Automatic Updates" is set to notify you, but let you choose whether or not to download and install. After making your changes if necessary, tab to okay, to close the dialogue, and return to the Windows Update Window. 3. Next, tab to "view installed updates", and press the spacebar 4. In this window, it will take a minute or so for the list of updates to populate, so be patient. Jaws should read a progress bar, and when it is done, make sure that the view is set to list, and then maximize the window. 5. You can use first letter navigationand look for the following: Update for Microsoft Windows (kb3035583). Once you have located it, press the applications key, and select "uninstall". 6. You will get the usual dialogue asking if you want to remove the update, so just spacebar the "yes" button. 7. Once the update has been uninstalled, you should get a prompt to restart the computer, do this whether you get the prompt or not. 8. After the computer re-boots, go to the Windows Update window again, and select "check for updates". The update you just removed should re-appear under important updates. 9. Make sure to uncheck the checkbox for this update, and then press the applications key and select "hide update", and then tab to the okay button. Note: When I did this on all of my systems, I noticed that there were 3 optional updates available 1 was for MSE, which I checked the box for, and the other 2 were for Windows, but not necessary, so I chose to hide them. 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. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Pinky To: JAWS-Users-List 2 Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 4:16 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to remove the Window 10 upgrade icon. Hi Group, I got a new W7 pc and I have the W10 upgrade icon down by the clock. How do I remove it and any other W10 files to keep it out of the windows update screen? I don't want to download it at this time. Ed For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
