Windows 10

[DerVVulfman]

Guys, you wanna hear a good one?

What you don't know Guar, but Lani and Metal does, is that I have a dialup phone-line connection. Go ahead and laugh... but, hey... it works.

But what is interesting is that the moment the whole 'Get Windows 10' icon appeared, it appeared my internet was slowed down... BADLY. You may not have noticed it, but I did. I guess the programs (GXW.Exe and related) were re-connecting and staying connected while I was online and was causing a drain on my bandwidth. Yeah, that damnable update requesting program just had to go.

It wouldn't be enough to hide it by turning off the icon's notification. I had to remove it altogether. So I did a little research and found I could disable it all-the-way by adding a key within the Windows Registry using RegEdit.

I created the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx" entry in the registry. You can do that if you don't have this entry already available in your Registry. After that, I added a DisableGWX key to that entry. If it asks for 32-bit DWord or 64-bit DWord, check what kind of System you had first. Few Windows 7 OS are 32bit. And once I made the DisableGWX key, I set that key to a value of 1 (one). This disables the GWX system altogether.

GWX: Acronym for 'Get Windows 10'