What don't you want to upgrade to Windows 10? As we well know, Microsoft announced that reserving a copy of Windows 10 is free for Windows 7 and 8.1 users, but despite this tempting offer there are many users who are not very convinced to upgrade their systems for one reason or another, if that If this is your case, then I will show you 4 methods to avoid this “annoying” notification.
The theme of all this is that there are those who do not want to see the icon of Get Windows 10 In the notifications area, yes, that 16 × 16 px square that after July 29 will tell us that we can download 3 GB corresponding to the size of the update to Windows 10. If you don't want to see it either, you are not going to update and you want remove it, choose one of the following methods that I will suggest.
Method I - Uninstall update KB3035583
The man responsible for this icon to appear in your notification area is the update KB3035583, so if you uninstall it, it also disappears from your computer and therefore from your view.
Then go to Control Panel> Programs> Uninstall a program. Click on the 'View installed updates' option on the left.
Finally look for the culprit (KB3035583) and with a right click you uninstall it.
Method II - Hide the 'Get Windows 10' Icon
1. Right click on the taskbar> Properties> Notification area> Customize ...
2. Look for the icon Gwx Get Windows 10 and pull down the list to choose “Hide icon and notifications”. Click OK to save the changes.
Method III - Uninstall with Command Prompt
This would be a shortcut of method I, so we start the command prompt as administrator by quickly typing cmd in the start menu and right-clicking the following command:
WUSA / UNINSTALL / KB: 3035583
As shown in the screenshot below, a window will appear asking if you want to uninstall the KB3035583 update. Click Yes and the rest is the responsibility of the system.
Method IV
This is the NOT manual method that will simplify your life thanks to a little program called I Don't Want Windows 10, Yeah men! couldn't have a better name xD.
You simply run it, click the I agree button to accept the previously read terms and conditions and wait for it to complete its uninstall task by itself.
Ah! If you activate the advanced mode box, it will make you the administrator of the GWX folder located in the path C: WindowsSystem32GWX, allowing you to delete all its content and making said folder read-only.
It is up to you to choose the advanced mode or not, by the way you can download I Don't Want Windows 10 from here which is a 144 KB Zip file that contains the portable application.
That's all folks! Share this info if you think someone might find it useful =)