Removing Windows 10 Download from Windows 7 Laptop

Before I did much research on how Windows 10 interacts with my old Envy 14 laptop, I allowed the updater to download the files necessary to upgrade to Windows 10. Since then, what I've read indicates that this machine probably won't handle the upgrade very well, so I don't intend to apply it. How do I find and delete the download package for Windows 10 so I can free up some of the precious space on my SSD?

 

If the recent news about auto downloading Win 10 without user control is true the system will probably download it again even if you delete it.

 

Hmm, none of my three computers had that issue - they all only started downloading when I initiated the Windows 10 upgrade process. Either way, if I can delete the files once, I can delete them again if MS forces my PC to download them again. Anyone know where they're located?

 

Appears to be somewhere inside C:\$Windows.~BT .

http://superuser.com/questions/886098/what-is-the-windows-bt-folder

 

Hmm, 3.43 GB - seems like that's probably the place. I'm considering giving Win 10 a chance on this machine as I've found a few potential drivers that could make it work, but fiddling with a machine when it's not broken isn't typically the best idea, so we'll see.

You wouldn't happen to know if there's a way to change the system language while upgrading to Win 10 (or I suppose without upgrading or reinstalling the OS at all)? I set this up to be my wife's laptop so the last OS install was simplified Chinese. If I try Win 10 and find I need to roll it back, it's gonna be one hell of a headache rolling it back if I have to go through the process in Chinese.

 

I don't know. Do you have language packs to choose from right now? If not, don't expect a choice.

If your wife somehow fail to figure it out, just post about it and I'll find reference online. My Chinese should be good enough for this.

 

No, Windows 7 only allows language packs in Ultimate or Enterprise editions. You can get around it with the lesser editions by installing the OS in another language from the relevant installation media (which is how I got this PC running the Chinese version of Windows 7), but I know of no other way. However, from a little research it looks like language packs are available to all users with Windows 10, so that might cover my needs.

It's not that my Chinese can't get me through OS processes, which is admittedly simplified greatly by reading tutorials, even if they're in English; it's more that it's a pain in the butt that I prefer not to deal with, haha. Still, if I decide to give it a run I'll figure out how to rollback to Win 7 if necessary. As for my wife, she's fluent in Chinese but illiterate in Computer; she keeps asking me how to turn off the 4G "wifi" on her phone (even though the interface is all in Chinese and the data on/off button is a very intuitive icon), and when she's talking on the phone she says stuff like, "Sorry, the 4G wifi just turned to 3G wifi on my phone so I can't hear you very well."