• Are Win7 and Win8.1 Auto Update stuck?

    Posted on March 15, 2016 at 04:17 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Here’s the behavior I’ve seen since Saturday:

    I’m running Win7 in a VM, with default settings (Auto Update is turned on), with all checked patches installed.

    The “Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586” item is in Optional updates, and Microsoft checked it for me. I can clear the check mark, but it reappears every time any component of Windows Update runs.

    I let the machine run overnight (or however long it takes for Auto Update to kick in). All of the checked items except “Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586” install with the Auto Update run.

    It looks to me like MS changed the behavior on Saturday, possibly early Sunday morning.

    If any of you are brave enough to run Win7 with Auto Update turned on (without running GWX Control Panel or making the registry changes that prevent the upgrade), could you give that a try and see what happens for/to you?

    If you, or anyone you know, was upgraded to Win10 without permission – and they haven’t rolled back yet – please have them dig into the C:\windows.old folder (in Windows 10, mind you) and email me a copy of windowsupdate.log. Asking for a friend.

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