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This is travesty! I cannot get rid of this bloody "Your upgrade to Windows 10 is ready". I have Windows 7 64bit Home Premium installed.
I reserved a free upgrade to Windows 10 a couple of weeks (or even months now) ago. I was waiting to the stage when it happened that the Windows Update donwloaded required files and was ready to begin. I was almost ready to begin but in the last minute I realised there might be complications with software I've got. Therefore I decided to cancel my reservation.
Even after cancelling, windows upgrade has not stopped harassing me to restart my computer. After restarting, nothing happens. Windows update still asks to restart. Also, I used to have this annoying advert to reserv Windows 10 which I manage to get rid of.
I have visitted a couple of websites and realised there are massive no of people having the same issue.
I tried the following.
Visited this website: How to get rid of the 'Your upgrade to Windows 10 is ready' lock and manage to get rid of GWX process. Apparently, unstalling two updates was required: KB2952664 (likely on Win7 systems) and KB 2976978 (likely on Win 8.1) - GWX, and KB3035583 Windows 10 update itself. It did not help. So I was digging further. I found another website: Stop Windows 10 upgrade install after files already dowloaded and uninstalled a couple of other patches such as:
KB3035583 - Update installs Get Windows 10 app in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1
KB2952664 - Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7
KB2976978 - Compatibility update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 8
KB3021917 - Update to Windows 7 SP1 for performance improvements
KB3044374 - Update that enables you to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10
KB2990214 - Update that enables you to upgrade from Windows 7 to a later version of Windows
Another answer suggests to chnage one of the registery keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsoft> Windows> CurrentVersion> WindowsUpdate> OSUpgrade
Look for the KEY : AllowOSUpgrade then change to 0
I have have littlke knowledge on what patches correspond to. Unfortunately, having done all this did not help. I still have got Windows Update nagging me to restart the system. I found very long post here: “Your upgrade to Windows 10 is ready” How to cancel it?. There's a very long answer. I tried to follow the instructions but somehwere in the middle, I did not find provided registery HKEYs but I have also uninstalled a bunch of other patches:
KB3022345 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
KB3068708 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
KB3075249 - Update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
KB3080149 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
KB2990214 - Update that enables you to upgrade from Windows 7 to a later version of Windows
KB3012973 - << did not found anything on that >>
KB2952664 - Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7
KB2976978 - Compatibility update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 8
Unfortunately, as soon as I switched Windows Update, the message came back.
I feel completely lost. I have no idea what to do. I will be really grateful if someone could provide some working solution to this!
Thanks
PS> The last desparate move will be simply installing the system from DVD. I could do it but first I would like to know if I am going to exoerience the same problems after installing a fresh copy of the system.
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possible duplicate of I Cancelled Microsoft 10 Reservation and uninstalled KB3035583 but Window 10 is still trying to install
– DavidPostill – 2015-09-20T19:01:17.640The solution at this link did not work for me. I did try removing the aforementioned patch, wait for the installer to fire and after restarting the system by the updater, it came to the same stage. For that reason, it's not really a duplicated topic. – Celdor – 2015-09-21T06:58:24.623
IMO, this question has been created according to SO rules. I provided everything I could to describe my problem. The link to an answer above IS NOT the answer to my problem. Whoever gave me -1 for this question is simply ridiculous, which is why I don't even see comment on that! – Celdor – 2015-10-13T08:41:55.427