Quick backout of automatic Win10 u/g

[Daveyt]

I haven't actually seen a Win10 automatic upgrade happen as its blocked on all of mine (using Never10) but plenty of customers retail and business have reported it obviously (and quite a lot have been fine, but people seem to lose audio drivers a lot - or at least Win10 seems to default the audio output to headphones instead of speakers). But one of my customers came in the other day to find it was in the process of upgrading and was sat at a login page, or at least a dialog that said "Confirm your login/username" with a "This is not me" link below. Well they clicked "this is not me" and the upgrade backed out and rebooted back to 7.

So I havent got the exact text or screenshots, but it seems - on 7Pro at least, this is cheat option to avoid some messing about - certainly it took a few seconds rather than many minutes/hours.

 

[buzzcut]

I had a client tell me that her windows was updating for quite a long time. I asked her if she clicked on update now? She said no and also she believed that it was upgrading to Win 10. (that she does not want)
I told her to do a hard shut down, and when she restarted it it went back to Win 8.1.

 

[Colin]

I also have had a few system where the audio is defaulted to the headphone jack, it is strange but easy to fix.

 

[glennd]

I got one yesterday. The upgrade was a sorry mess, including the audio. Rollback via the settings/recovery (?) was relatively painless, about 15 mins or so. The "This is not me" i think is quite early in the process and therefore relatively quick to back out. Similar to declining the terms of use. The customer didn't even realise he'd been upgraded, just that his computer looked different today. So he went through all the various Win10 upgrade screens, terms of use, and whatever else without questioning what was happening.

 

[HankArnold]

A friend of mine reported 2 weeks ago that his computer (W7) was logged on. He fell asleep and woke up a few hours later and his computer had automatically upgraded to W10. Since he was asleep, never saw any prompts.

 

[nlinecomputers]

A friend of mine reported 2 weeks ago that his computer (W7) was logged on. He fell asleep and woke up a few hours later and his computer had automatically upgraded to W10. Since he was asleep, never saw any prompts.

But you still get prompts for the End User License Agreement. I have built a test system and let it do the upgrade with the new Your upgrade has been scheduled for X time. You get a Windows 10 EULA that if you decline starts the rollback to Windows 7. Yes, Microsoft is shoving this down people's throats, but you ALWAYS have to agree to the EULA. Just like much of the PUP programs that people get their systems that also do the same thing. People don't fraking read and then they lie about it. Been in the business twenty years nothing changes.

 

[cypress]

I been hearing that the audio issues seems to be one of the most common issues occurring now with the Windows 10 Upgrade. Been an easy fix for most. I haven't had an issue with the Roll back on the couple of systems that I have done so far. I'll be doing an upgrade on rollback on my wife's laptop this coming week.

 

[Your PCMD]

Its different for me. No issues with audio here, but mainly network. Either the wireless dont work of the LAN doesnt work. Either way, an easy fix for me a nice chunk of $$ too for only a 5 minute job.

 

[Colin]

Its different for me. No issues with audio here, but mainly network. Either the wireless dont work of the LAN doesnt work. Either way, an easy fix for me a nice chunk of $$ too for only a 5 minute job.

Exactly!
I am not complaining, I can fix the errors quickly and the client is happy and I make money...just sad that at the end of next month all we are going to get is "But why can't I upgrade to Win 10 for free?" lol

 

[Your PCMD]

"But why can't I upgrade to Win 10 for free?"

This is so true. I thought about having clients where I can go ahead an upgraded them to Windows 10 so that could get locked in and reverse it back to their OS (7 - 8.1). That way, when they decide to get Windows 10, its just a matter of taking my flashdrive and updating them and they would be activated, for a fee of course.

 

[cypress]

Well I spoke too soon on the audio issue. New client this Friday who upgraded to Windows 10 couple of months prior. She wanted a RAM Upgrade and I told her I would need to do a diagnostics anyway. The machine had various driver conflicts and the sound wasn't working. Tried various solutions found online but no dice. Decided it was better to do a nuke a pave to fix the conflicts. After nuke a pave it's working great. So this was one just due to upgrade which seems to be very common.

 

[Your PCMD]

Yeah, upgrading to Windows 10 is an issue I have found with computers with some age, like 2yrs old and dont get me started on older machines. What I have suggested to clients whom have an interest in upgrading to Windows 10 (that sounds so comical - Win10 as an upgrade) - anyway, is to go online FIRST and download the drivers FOR Windows 10 and storing them on a flash drive. Like I said, 99% of my issues is no network, and when you dont have that, you cant get the drivers. Better to be proactive.

 

[cypress]

Interesting you say that about the network drivers. I upgraded two laptops during the weekend, this one I just spoke of and another. Did a clean install on both and didn't need any drivers despite actually finding some on the manufacturers website. Both installed with no issues. After running the updates it installed upgraded versions to a couple but nothing big. I say the same thing, the drivers that really matter to me are video and network.

 

[mikeroq]

Once the upgrade goes through. If you make it to the terms:

Just decline

 

[DataMedics]

I'm actually really enjoying Windows 10 overall. I've found it to be more stable than 7 (especially for what I do) and more user friendly than 8, which I hated. However the upgrade install is a train wreck. Only one system of mine did I leave the upgraded install on there. For all the others it was constant issues, BSODs, etc. However a fresh install using the downloaded ISO, and it works perfectly on every system.

 

[HFultzjr]

I have done fresh installs with no issues yet, except for a few minor.

 

[CadDaddy]

I haven't had issues on anything but my personal rig at home updated all my drivers, then the auto-upgrade crashed 4 times, gave up and used my USB installer I use on other people's stuff, and it went through first try. As soon as I upgraded, I lost my second monitor, and my main monitor is only using 70% of the screen real estate. Another Nvidia update was available (that wasn't under win7 a couple hours prior), but it didn't fix it (though the monitor worked sooner in the boot process, before it stayed blank until the log screen). For a long time, I wasn't offered the upgrade due to video driver availability. You'd think Nvidia would have a proper driver by now. I'm going to do a clean install anyway, so we'll see if that fixes it. Why it always my rig that gets the screwy problems? Anyone seen this?

 

[MDD1963]

Once you snag the valid Win10 product key after the upgrade, you can clean install (nuke and pave) quite easily....

 

[Altster]

Isn't GWXControl Panel still working to keep this upgrade away?

I'm still using 7 Pro 64-bit on the home computers but am this close > || < to making the switch to something else (Linux).

This push to get everyone on Windows 10 reminds me of some other crap that is going on in the US.

 

[computerbeing]

They have placed a deadline for upgrades now for the 27th July and stopped being pushy after some legal action against Microsoft for them forcing upgrades was made news.