Windows 10: How to remove the 'Get Windows 10' app from your PC

My understanding is that once, you accept it will be automatically installed. None the less. the articles solution isn't a fix, it will never go away, even if you uninstall it as the article suggests, it will be right back on the next update. You can right click and hide it, but eventually that will show up again.

We have 8 machines running 7, 8, 8.1 and we use Media Center on all of them. I simply do not like, or want Windows 10 and I don't want to have to worry about someone in the house hold or outside clicking the install. To me it is cheap an almost an unethical way to handle it. If people want it let them go to the site and manually install it.

Just my opinion, it is half of the reason I dislike Windows 10, no way to select what updates will do, without getting a Pro edition.

Maybe after the first year it will be gone forever, and I won't even have to think about it. God I can already hear friends calling and saying "Hey, how do I switch back to my old Windows?" <good grief>

 

If you read everything you will see
in 2 step called Install that its not automatic there is written something along the lines of:
When it's ready to install you will get notification where you can choose to install now or later.

 

I may be wrong, but the way I read it is that if you reserve your copy of W10, at some point it will download to your computer and after that you will be notified that an the upgrade is ready to install.

 

My desktop that was upgraded 7>8>8.1 got it following an update yesterday in the UK

 

That's the identical upgrade path that I followed, and I do have the Win10 notification on my Taskbar, as from early this morning.

 

I have Win 8.1 Pro 32 bit. i had the icon on my task bar also. I just went to windows update and looked for update kb3035583 in installed updates and uninstalled it. Rebooted computer, ran windows update again and it was there as an optional update. I then just hid the update. Running windows update again did not show the update at all then. It was there when i checked the restore hidden updates page too. I never did open the icon on the task bar though. i never even went through the reserve this copy procedure. Did this or will this update show up again? I don't know. I just wanna wait a bit until i can get a retail DVD of Win 10 and wait for a few more bugs to be gone. Looking forward to the launch *Smile

 

I will uninstall kb3035583 and see what happens.

Well that was a waste of time. Still no icon on taskbar *Sad

 

Shawn I had the window on the task bar on three of my machines and after doing the reserve thing today they no longer appear. very simple.
Shipinomore

 

Thank you. Unless I use an option in the tutorial, the "Get Windows 10" app icon still shows on mine to let me check the reserve status. *Sad

 

Sweet finally got the "Get Windows 10" icon. Also reserved!

 

I have this update, but no icon... Although I did have to reactivate Win 8.1 through MS's support number, due to upgrading my system (thx to my MB going fubar last week). I hope this reactivation didn't screw me out of my copy of Win 10. *Sad

Note: Clean install Win 8.1 ISO, activated via Win 8.0 key and MS support.

 

Update:

I was able to get the icon & register by following: http://techdows.com/2015/06/how-to-e...1-taskbar.html

 

That W10 reserve icon is like a virus! Hide the icon and it just comes back on the next startup/reboot. Might just be a coincidence but my W7 machine just started to take over three minutes to startup. *Mad

 

I have this little colourless icon but, I don't mind. I did make it so it doesn't show in the taskbar. *Smile

 

Yes, I removed the Windows update KB file and the next boot it shows up again ready for reinstall.