How to avoid the Windows 10 upgrade.

To me, there's no point in installing any of this unless I'm prepared to upgrade, well unless one of the updates serves some other purpose.
I'll do a clean install anyway, possibly a few months after the launch.


How to avoid being "upgraded to Win 10" against your will?

 

That is what I would do not a upgrade there so many problems that can occur and there is no real way to find the fix behind it all. A clean full install is what I would do.

 

Only exception is if that's the only way to get my upgrade key or to back up my activation. After that I'd do a clean install anyway.

 

Somehow related question: is there anyway to hide unwanted updates, so they don't show up next time I looked them up? Or at least ask MS to list some basic info in right pane, instead of going to web site each time? because saying "install this update to resolve issues in Windows" is not saying much, especially that often it is a lie, like when you go to website and it says "This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows." What???
BTW I already stop all the updates listed in that article from being installed on my system and some.

 

True! I'd never EVER do an OS upgrade! Heck I don't even do Software upgrades I usually uninstall the previous version and get rid of all the traces! Upgrading an OS is insane and for n00bs really who know better than "yey! my Windows was upgraded" not knowing what sort of junk/registry errors/hidden event log errors, driver issues, etc might happen

 

I'm sure Microsoft have something already in place for something like that, and it will most likely come under the Windows recovery option where you can download the full .iso encase of a reinstall or hardware failure, but like others have said we may have to go the upgrade route just to obtain the key.

Like you all, I'll also be doing a full fresh install.

 

Right click: Hide.
It doesn't work on the Malicious Software Removal Tool though, it causes WU to list an older version the next time you do a search.

 

For Savvy users yes..but your everyday john/jane doe...I highly doubt they had a plan of action in place for that.