How to Prevent Microsoft from forcibly updating your operating system

How to Prevent Microsoft from forcibly updating your operating system

 

Whether or not Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users want to retain the original OS, Microsoft has started to update Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to Windows 10.

If you have encountered such a situation, the following will show you how to delete the Windows 10 upgrade Installation File; if you have not encountered this situation, the following section also describes whether to download the Windows 10 upgrade installation file as needed.

How to delete Windows 10 update files

Browse your system partition and you will find one or two folders named $ Windows .~ BT and $ Windows .~ WS. Both are hidden folders that contain the installation files required to upgrade to Windows 10. Because it is a hidden folder, you need to set the display of hidden folders, files, and drives. The specific method is: first select a tool, and then select the folder option.

 

 

Although you can delete folders directly, the best way to delete folders is through the built-in Disk Cleanup tool.

Click Start to search for disk cleanup.

 

Right-click the displayed application and select Run as administrator. Select your system partition and click OK ".

 

In the list, you will see the temporary Windows Update Installation File. Select it, and then click OK ".

 

In this way, all $ Windows. ~ Can be cleared .~ BT folder. Return to the original folder location. For the $ Windows .~ WS folder computer user, if the remaining $ Windows .~ WS directory. You can manually delete the directory.

To prevent files from being downloaded again, click Start Menu-control panel-programs-uninstall or change programs.

 

Click to view updates installed on the left.

 

Enter the following name in the search box and find the following updates: kb3035583, kb2952664, and kb3021917 (Windows 7), kb3035583, and kb2976978 (Windows 8 ). Right-click Update and choose Uninstall.

After that, select system and security in the control panel, select Windows Update, and then click check for updates. Right-click each update above and choose hide update.

How to Prevent installation of update files

If you are like me, you have not been updated by the downloaded file so far. You will be more interested in how to prevent the installation of update files:

Step 1: Install your own OS patch file. If you are using Windows 7, you need this file; if you are using Windows 8.1, you need this file.

Step 2: Press win + r to start running, enter regedit in running, open registry editor, and press Enter. In the Registry Editor, find the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows \ and create a new item named WindowsUpdate.

 

Step 3: Create a New 32-bit DWORD Value in this item, named disableosupgrade, double-click it, and set its value to 1.

 

 

If you want to download the Update file and upgrade it to Windows 10, you can change the value of disableosupgrade to 0.