If you have automatic updates enabled in Windows, you will eventually notice a new Icon in the task bar that offers you Windows 10 for free. What if you do not want this notification?
Here is a simple and clean way to remove this notification:
Uninstall the Update KB3035583. You can do this manually by executing a lot of clicks, or just use this command (you need to execute it as administrator):
WUSA /UNINSTALL /KB:3035583
If you want to automate this process, I have written a bash file that first obtains admin rights and then executes the command:
@echo off :: BatchGotAdmin :------------------------------------- >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( goto UACPrompt ) else ( goto gotAdmin ) :UACPrompt echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\ga.vbs" set params = %*:"="" echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "%params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\ga.vbs" "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" exit /B :gotAdmin if exist "%temp%\ga.vbs" ( del "%temp%\ga.vbs" ) pushd "%CD%" CD /D "%~dp0" :-------------------------------------- WUSA /UNINSTALL /KB:3035583
You can download the Windows10 Notification Remover batch file here.
Update (22.06.2015): You can also disable the update notification by adding this key to the registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx] "DisableGwx"=dword:00000001
Just save this to a file with .reg ending, execute it and reboot. Now the notification as well as the GWX program running in the Background are gone.