How to prohibit win7/8 upgrade win10

In order to make Win7/Win8.1 users upgrade Win10 more convenient, Microsoft deliberately push the Windows10 official version installation package to these users. However, this method also causes dissatisfaction of some users, because this may affect the user's normal online experience and consume user traffic.

If you don't want to upgrade Win10 now, you don't have to endure the effects of automatically downloading the installation package. There are two ways to prevent the update from being downloaded.
Method 1: Uninstall "Get Windows 10" KB3035583 update patch
This patch is automatically downloaded Win10 installation package "Culprit", you can update Windows in Windows7/Windows 8.1 "Installed update" Found it in ; Since the update level is "Important", after uninstalling, the system may search for the update again and prompt for installation. At this point you should uncheck the installation and hide the update.

In addition, the KB2990214 under Win7 and the KB3044374 patch under Win8.1 also help users to upgrade to Win10. You can use the above method to uninstall, and also need to hide the updated search again.
Method 2: Use Microsoft KB3065987/KB3065988 update to block Win10 installation package download
The two updates are used for Win7 and Win8.1 systems respectively. You can download and install it via Windows Update. Before that, you should go to the Windows Update & nbsp; Installed Updates check to see if the update is installed.
The specific operation is as follows:
1, press Win+R, enter regedit in the operation and press Enter to open the registry editor, as shown below ——

2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdate< Br>
Note: If there is no WindowsUpdate item, you can manually click the right button in the blank space on the right side after clicking the Windows directory in the above figure.
3, click WindowsUpdate, right click on the right margin, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, named DisableOSUpgrade, as shown below ——

4, double-click to open DisableOSUpgrade, change the value data to 1. Click “OK”, as shown below ——

At this point you can restart your computer to ensure that the changes take effect quickly. If you want to restore Win10 downloads, you can remove DisableOSUpgrade directly.