Windows 10: Windows 7 to 10 missing notification

another requirement for the W10 icon in the system tray,
Application experience service Must be running.

Roy

 

Since I don't opt in to the Customer Experience Improvement Program, I've been disabling the tasks listed here for years:

VMware Documentation Library

On my Windows 7 system, I did not get the upgrade icon. In Event Viewer, I found GWX-Ins events stating that "Ceip is not opted in". Remembering the CEIP tasks I had disabled, I tried re-enabling and running the 5 tasks mentioned in the VMWare article, and the one that made the difference was Consolidator. I don't know if it caused Application Experience service to run or not; currently it is not running and set to Manual, and I have never touched it. I also did not opt in to CEIP after re-enabling the tasks. Anyway, after causing GWX to run again, the Windows 10 update icon appeared in the notification area.

 

Alright so I got it working! I basically followed all of the advice offered since my last post in one go (probably not a good idea in general), rebooted, and manually ran GWX.exe under "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\GWX". I'm not entirely sure what specifically triggered it, but thanks a lot for the suggestions guys!

 

I only showed 1 place where it can be dissabled, my bad, see screenshot for the other, its under system config.

Roy