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somthing is wrong the get windows 10 icon is gone on all my sytems and they all don't open the gwx.exe file
and windows update says this:


so why dont i have the option to download when you all do
im from belgium eu tho might that be the reason is the another release date for my country?

 

My GWX icon vanished after I used the MediaCreationToolx64.exe to create a ISO, I rebooted & created a backup with Macrium Reflect Free & when I booted back into Windows 8.1 after the backup the icon was gone. Windows update shows the same thing to me. I have tried all the tips to get the icon back but it just wont appear again.

 

change update option to update and install automatic mine start downloading now when i did that

 

I have had it set to automatically install updates since yesterday.

 

I have the exact same problem after using the MediaCreationTool to download the ISO. Don't know how to bring the icon back. I have tried clicking the GWX.exe but no. result.

Maybe the Get Windows 10 app is designed to detect that you've downloaded the ISO and removes itself to spare some server overload for Microsoft?

I'm not sure..

 

select recomended updates and microsoft updates on and try again

 

I just did and only get the notice on Windows Update exactly like Banzi got. The "Learn more" link in the Windows Update notice doesn't work and I still don't have the Windows 10 icon in the tasbkar.

What gives?

Things that I have tried:
- I have set Windows Update on automatic, and have selected to receive recommended updates and updates for other Microsoft products, no result.
- I have tried clicking the GWX.exe file in the system32 folder but nothing happens.
- I checked with an elevated command prompt if all the needed updates are installed according to this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3081048 to get the Windows 10 icon, and all of these updates are installed on my PC.
- I have tried to remove the Windows BT folder in C:/ that is created when I downloaded the ISO with the Media Creation Tool, still nothing.

 

Strangely the icon appeared back after rebooting due to AMD graphics driver update today, I also now have the $Windows.~BT folder with the download. I deleted the folders that the media creation tool created after creating the ISO to save disc space.

 

Which folders did you remove that the Media Creation Tool created?

I just checked another laptop of mine on which I didn't use the Media Creation Tool and the Get Windows 10 icon also disappeared from there.

I'm confused, I thought it had something to do with the Media Creation Tool..

 

I'm in North Carolina and my Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 8.1 was installed and running as of 21:02 (9:02pm) on 29 July 2015. I have yet to have any problems anywhere so far.

 

The media creation tool created two folders $Windows.~BT & $Windows.~WS which I then deleted after creating the ISO.

After I created the ISO I rebooted with my macrium reflect free rescue USB stick & created a backup. When I rebooted into windows the GWX icon was gone so I thought the only change I had done was use the media creation tool & that might have caused the icon to vanish as it now thought I was going to upgrade from the ISO.

I tried all the tips online to get the icon back but nothing worked, I noticed that AMD had released 15.7.1 drivers so I downloaded them & installed them & the setup asked for a reboot, after rebooting the GWX icon was back & the $Windows.~BT folder was there again totalling 5.55 GB.

I read a few posts on here that others had lost the icon so I thought it was either the media creation tool that caused it or MS had made a change to hide the icon maybe due to server load or something.

 

That's exactly what I thought as well. That in some way, the GWX app recognizes that you're trying to upgrade from an ISO and therefore deletes itself to spare some server overload. But apparently this doesn't seem to be the case. I just noticed that there's a new video driver for my nVidia GPU so maybe I should try to update that aswell and see if it brings back the icon.

Do you have any checkboxes enabled in the Windows Update settings? (receive recommended updates and/or receive updates from other Microsoft products)

 

I don't have those options ticked & never have. I have always had auto updates disabled & checked manually. I only changed it back to auto updates to see if the icon would appear again.