windows 10, involuntary and otherwise

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here's my story- my POS puter without any input from me, shut down in the middle of me writing somebody an email, then for a half-goddamned hour burped and connipted and installed windows 10 even though I specifically told it not to do any such thing. now that it is a windows 10 puter [nominally] it is extremely slow, I type this and letters drop out, it acts like it has no memory at all. it crashes constantly. anybody else have this experience?

Recently bought a spanking new computer with eight point whatever the number was. After a few weeks I took up the computer's invitation to let Windows ten in.

No problems. But its a new computer that has the memory to handle it.

Apparently you must have an old computer with out enough memory. So its like sticking a jet engine onto a Sopwith Camel biplane.

service guy says W10 MUST HAVE at least 8 gigs of fast RAM and at least a half-gig hard drive because it is a very voluminous OS that needs lots of room for memory. also gotta have a quad core or else it will just be little more than a paperweight. my once-adequate puter doesn't have those specs. this designed obsolescence stuff makes me mad.

what I don't grok is why MS would insist on installing the new OS on machines that can't handle it other than the fact the computer makers asked them to do that to drum up more business for spanking new hotrod machines.

Using Regedit.exe, you can disable windows 10 update.

To block the upgrade to Windows 10 through Windows Update, specify the following registry value:

Subkey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
DWORD value: DisableOSUpgrade = 1

To hide the Get Windows 10 app (notification area icon), specify the following registry value:

Subkey: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx
DWORD value: DisableGwx = 1

^^thank you that will help other WPers avoid my fate.

my involuntarily rendered w10 puter now seems to have decided that approx. 50 G of hard drive contents were surplus, they are GONE! have no idea what it was.

I am seriously thinking about Linux. I've had it with the funny games of software co's. I used to use a program called Webroot Spy Sniffer, can't remember exactly what it was called but it was a spyware killer program. Then, without my permission, it suddenly became Webroot Antivirus and started goading me to purchase it. A year later, that program suddenly became Webroot Secure Anywhere, and then started goading me to purchase a whole new program. I tried to uninstall it and couldn't, the program had erased all the uninstall options. I finally had to reformat. I have auto update off and so far I've been spared from the forced conversion of my PC to Win10. There are TONS of complaints about M$'s forcing Win10 on people.

if I had puter smarts and could write my own programs i'd go for Linux also, because nobody is writing any of the types of programs that I use for it.

If you're computer has Windows Update set to download automatic updates, it will download Windows 10. Recently, they changed the status of the Windows 10 update from “optional” to “recommended”. This new status prioritises the update to automatically installing, rather than prompting you for permission.

^^^^Hmmmmm.... so THAT's why it happened! I wonder what bill gates and co. are trying to pull here?

After the upgrade, the old installation is backed up and kept for a month,
after which time it is automatically deleted.
You have this time to decide whether to keep Windows 10, or to revert
to your previous installation.

Instructions on how to revert to your previous installation
can be found Here

To prevent this automatic upgrade, Steve Gibson of Gibson Research has released a tool called Never10.
This tool can be found Here

My computer runs just fine with W 10 with 4 gigs of fast memory. No problem.

Isn’t that enough reason? Non-free software is like that: you’re not free with it. It only serves your interests insofar as they match its masters’ and no further.

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

I'd been putting this off for so long because I hate going into regedit. Just not familiar enough and too much going on. Thank you for the automatic tool. It's really annoying to see that stupid thing pop up and pester me.

Oh...and THANK YOU!!

My main computer has two ways to block Win 10--one is a software utility. The other is a hardware limitation of 2 gig of free system drive space.