Windows Update with Windows 10 only: Microsoft allows errors

Windows Update: Windows 10 only


Update (16.10.2015)


Windows Update only upgrades to Windows 10? This was a mistake, according to Microsoft. Because actually the free change to the new operating system is optional - he will also remain. In contrast to the US tech magazine Ars Technica, a spokesman said in the following words:


Original message (14.10.2015)


"The upgrade to Windows 10 should appear as an optional download in the Windows Update window of the Control Panel. [...] However, this option was selected as the default selection for the previous patch day. That was a mistake, we'll fix it. "


It remains unknown how many users were affected worldwide. In the original message, you will learn how to proceed when Windows Update seems to offer you only the option to upgrade to Windows 10, but you do not want to do so.


If you are running Windows Update manually for the current patch day, you can only see the option for the upgrade to Windows 10, as in the picture above. Premature users could click too fast to run the setup routine of Windows 10 inadvertently. Microsoft is apparently trying to get users to switch to Windows 10. The fact that many users do not yet want to take the leap to the new Windows, The current figures for the Windows 10 market share.


To prevent Windows 10 from being installed - and Windows Update instead just playing regular patches for Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 - you must click the text link under the Windows 10 download ("View all available updates"). In the following windows you can tick the required downloads under the "Important Updates". Under the "Optional Updates", however, you should uncheck "Update to Windows 10". Otherwise, you will not see the button after you click "OK" to start the installation of the regular updates.


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Windows 10 was released on July 29, 2017. After a month, Microsoft was able to look forward to a more than 5 percent increase in the market share for the operating system. In the second month growth slowed somewhat, Knapp over six percent of the computers were traveling with Windows 10 at the end of September.


However, this development does not yet allow a general conclusion as to how good or bad Windows 10 is to the users. It is more likely that initially "so-called" early adopters "have changed, while other users leave the update up to the middle of next year. From then on, the deadline when the transition from Windows 7 or 8.1 is free.