PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as ACCEPTING the update, which will automatically occur 15 minutes after logging in unless canceled : pcmasterrace

/u/AppIns on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 22, 2016, 9:09 pm

RIP I have windows 10

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/u/[deleted] on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 21, 2016, 8:33 am

I think this is illegal in Canada. The government passed some anti-spam legislation a couple years ago that requires consent to install something. There's an exception for things like JavaScript and...

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/u/arjanvirdi on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 21, 2016, 6:21 am

This happens to my family pc, which crashes each time at 72% ...

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/u/cylindrical418 on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts...

May 21, 2016, 3:10 am

So this is why everyone in our office suddenly upgraded to Windows 10. LOL @ IT department.

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/u/Kenooi on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 7:07 pm

Lurking in the shadows...

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/u/jjhhgg100123 on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 6:47 pm

Annndd... this is why I used super anti spyware to completely and utterly remove all the gwx crap on my pc. This is really starting to get pathetic.

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/u/doto2trader on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 3:44 pm

Thank you for letting me know brother. I installed the software and its working. I don't get the windows 10 upgrade window anymore.

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/u/thendawg on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 6:50 am

Im really curious, are only certain win 8.1 versions targeted by this? I never even got an upgrade notification on my system. For reference I was running win 8.1 pro with an MSDN license. I upgraded to...

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/u/YourShittyGrammar on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now...

May 20, 2016, 6:26 am

Haha so that's what happened to one of our work computers the other day

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/u/podian on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 5:00 am

More and more tempted to revert to Win7...

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/u/Setekh79 on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 3:40 am

Why are they so desperate to trick people into upgrading, jesus christ. This is the kind of shit I'd expect from something like G2A."Click here to cancel undoing the closure of this cancelled window...

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/u/mindbleach on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 9:04 am

This has "class action lawsuit" written all over it. It's a continuing and deliberate pain for individuals and organizations alike. They are fucking with people's computer software even when they've...

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/u/xelixomega on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 9:59 am

Those kind of systems, are all on linux or hardcore unix. Hell alot of banking systems still run on mainframes. Which is an animal onto itself. Z/OS and its systems lend very well to transactional...

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/u/hanoian on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 5:41 am

I imagine if a large enough company had an OS-sensitive piece of software not work because of an unwanted upgrade, there could be a case.. In banking for example, it could be a catastrophe.

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/u/MrDerpbaGerp on PSA: Closing the "Upgrade to Windows 10" box now counts as...

May 20, 2016, 4:53 am

I know there have been cases where consumers took companies to court and used the EULAs against the company and won. But yea not many people have the funds or balls for that matter to take on...

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