The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 will end on July 29, 2016.

Don?t miss out! The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 will end on July 29, 2016.

Thank goodness. I can soon remove my GWX control panel, that prevents this virus from entering my system :-)

Cheers Don...

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You're mistaken. All it means is that they'll bill you after installing the unwanted software.

You think there's no legal basis? You're right, of course, but they have lots of money for lawyers.

Sylvia.

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If you *upgrade* to WIN10 from a pirate WIN7 do you still need the loader?

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BuckyBalls

Do you have some recent reference which says that they're actually going through with this?

Yes, they said this a year ago, but it's unwise to take Microsoft at their word, let alone if it's a year old.

Well, GPX Control Panel is invisible and doing its job, so that's the least of my worries.

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That would be a tad hard, having no name, address, etc. to send the bill to.

OTOH, they could cripple your installed version. Oh wait ... it's already crippled, by design.

Well, luckily I'm in the EU and the EU and Microsoft do not go well together in legal matters.

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Heh. My parents asked me to do the "free" upgrade because a family friend promised them it would make their laptop run faster and it is FREE! and free is good right?

I said no, stick with Windows 7... really.

So they ignored my advice and got their neighbour to do do the "upgrade". Now they want me to remove it... sigh... because their laptop runs slow.

Sheez...

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A few days back I upgraded? this desktop to Win10. After seeing all the hassles other people had when upgrading whilst Win10 was new, I thought to wait a while till bugs were sorted. The upgrade went without a hitch. Seems just as fast a before. It's a Q6700 Quadcore so it's no slouch. Seems to work ok. The way I figure it, I have nothing to lose. I have the original Win8.1 DVD so if it pisses me off I'll just revert back to that OS level. I also have a Q6600 beast here running Win7 so I might just give that a go on the upgrade and see how it works.

The reason I thought I'd give the upgrade a go was that my brother in Tasmania bought a Win8.1 equipped HP computer and I upgraded it to Win10 while I was visiting him a few weeks back. That was a low powered computer and it went as well or better after the upgrade. Anyway, he's happy enough with it. ;-)

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I've got a junker dual-core laptop I installed 10 on to see how well that would go and it went fine and the laptop is actually much more responsive then before. Mileage seems to vary.

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Sounds good. BYE.

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You may want to check this other ultra light program that blocks any attempt at forcing the "upgrade".

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Or better completely eradicate the problem.

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I Already upgraded to Linux over 15 years ago, totally immune since then:)

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FWIW, I have Win 10 (all 64 bit) running happily (as good as Win 7 ever did) on all of the following:

ASUS Z77 based home-built system - installed via online upgrade from Win

7, required freeing up space on one of the hidden boot partitions (instructions easily found)

Lenovo T530 laptop - installed via downloaded ISO over Win 8.1, no issues.

iMac 12.2 (ca mid 2011) via Bootcamp - installed via ISO over a clean in stall of licensed copy of Win 7, no issues.

Ok, it takes a small bit of effort to kill the telemetry but otherwise I don't know what all the troggs are scared of.

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I had issues with the pre-release version (Insider) so I thought I'd wait until now to allow them to get all of those sorted. Seems M$ has it sorted as my 'upgrade' from 8.1 the other day worked ok. I still have to do a Win 7 upgrade to 10 on another similar computer as well as a Virtual Win7 running under Parallels Desktop on my MacPro.

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My upgrade worked out a long time ago except win 10 did not and neither did reverting and I had to completely wipe to reinstall win 8.1

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Yes, I saw lots of postings about the issues on various forums and decided to wait it out.

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In - sort of - answering my own question:

It *seems* that there no longer is a time limit on the free upgrade.

For example the (Microsoft) "Get W "If you're going to upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 or if you're reinstalling Windows 10, you won't need to enter a product key."

I.e. again no time limit.

So I guess we'll see what *really* happens after July 29 (2016)! :-)

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Windoze update mentions July 29 2016.

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SG1

Please elaborate! Where/how/when/ do you see such a message?

If I go to Windows Update in the Control Panel, there is no such message.

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If you check the file info at microsoft, which is what I generally do on most update files (since GWX started nagging me), you will find it there.

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[Says "Don't miss out! The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 will end on July 29, 2016. >"]

Thanks.

At least that's a clear statement and from Microsoft.

If you click on the message, it brings you to "Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends July 29" [1], which shows a count-down clock. Is that supposed to make us nervous?

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Micro$oft have made me nervous for many years :-) Cheers Don...

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