# HELP! Windows wants to upgrade to W10 without my consent!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378 "2016-03-09T06:02:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/1 "2016-03-09T06:02:40Z")
Windows is telling me that my upgrade to W10 will happen in the next hour unless I reschedule.
I rescheduled…but now it’s demanding that I choose a date between now and March 13.
I don’t WANT to upgrade now. I’d like to preserve the option, but I don’t want it to happen without my consent.
How do I tell these bastards to stop this crap?
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### Author:  [@Blackstock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackstock)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/2 "2016-03-09T06:05:54Z")
This link might help:
[http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_10-win\_upgrade/how-do-i-delay-windows-10-installation/5b260b0d-c435-443a-92c9-f038dce9cb74?auth=1](http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/how-do-i-delay-windows-10-installation/5b260b0d-c435-443a-92c9-f038dce9cb74?auth=1)
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/3 "2016-03-09T06:17:02Z")
Thank you very kindly! I’ve done what was suggested.
(I do intend to upgrade, but I just want to choose when. If I’m careless and lose the chance for a free upgrade, well, that’s my own darn fault, but at least the choice was mine!)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/4 "2016-03-09T06:52:30Z")
If and when you do decide to upgrade, get yourself a big removable hard drive and use something like [CloneZilla](http://clonezilla.org/)to back up an image of your entire system. Upgrade problems are pretty rare, but their rarity is no comfort to those that they do actually hit.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/5 "2016-03-09T11:43:30Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Thank you very kindly! I’ve done what was suggested.
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> (I do intend to upgrade, but I just want to choose when. If I’m careless and lose the chance for a free upgrade, well, that’s my own darn fault, but at least the choice was mine!)
It’s been nine months. Just move on, already.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/6 "2016-03-09T14:34:37Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> (I do intend to upgrade, but I just want to choose when. If I’m careless and lose the chance for a free upgrade, well, that’s my own darn fault, but at least the choice was mine!)
I just did a Google search; the free upgrade offer ends on July 29, so you may want to decide by then.
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### Author:  [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-windows-wants-to-upgrade-to-w10-without-my-consent/748378/7 "2016-03-09T15:30:26Z")
Download and install GWX Control Panel. It stops all Windows 10 updates and nags – and has a button to click when/if you decide to got ahead and install Windows 10.