Microsoft has committed to support Windows 7 until at least January, 2020. Most of your current computers will last that long.
The Windows 10 installation promises to allow return to Windows 7 within 30 days. That return process is flawed and sometimes requires re-installation of Windows 7. For some owners without a re-usable Microsoft product key or a factory restore partition
on their computers, it results in a useless thing that used to be a computer.
A lot of people have tried Windows 10 and decided they want their Windows 7 back. If you are one of those, once you have Windows 7 back, you will need to take steps to keep it that
You must adopt a protective stance to prevent your Windows 7 system from becoming something you do not want.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3043656/microsoft-windows/first-aid-for-forced-windows-10-upgrades.html
Change the Windows Update Setting to Never check for updates. Once a month, on the 2nd Tuesday, they receive an email from me advising to manually start WU and then hide every update except for ones specifically labeled Security.
In other words, only security updates will be applied. In all of 2015, there was not a single update that improved Windows 7.
Some may feel uncomfortable with the setting — NEVER. Well you needn’t be. Never means you are never giving Microsoft a chance to decide what you download and install. It should NOT mean you will never update. The difference is that now you take control
and the responsibility of updating of Windows and Office.
Read Woody Leonhard (one of the most respected writers in the trade)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2983777/microsoft-windows/how-to-clean-the-windows-10-crapware-off-your-windows-7-or-81-pc.html?nsdr=true
Woody calls the Windows 10 download “crapware.” Woody’s advice is that if you have Windows 7, keep it, you are better off by far.
If you see the Windows flag on the bottom right of your screen, chances are pretty high, your computer already has the Win10 files. Even if you do not, it may be on your computer shortly anyway. Here are instructions on how to rid yourself of it:
First download and run GWX Control panel.
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
It will allow you to prevent any future operating system upgrades and delete downloaded Win10 files, but it will
not remove all of Microsoft’s spyware that is already installed on your computer.
The following process will remove those features which you do not need.
This process works, but it only works if you do all the steps and do them in order.
- Take Windows Update off automatic — Never check for updates
- Windows Update, Installed updates, WAIT a long time till you see the green bar complete its long trip to the right
- Now, search for each of the listed updates, uninstall them. You must wait until the list is re-created each time. You need to wait till you see the number at the bottom of the search window exceed a few hundred.
- If there are others you want to uninstall, click Later
- Then, clear the search box and after the list is again displayed (the number at the bottom again exceeds several hundred), enter another KB number.
- Restart the PC. It may take a long time to process this.
If you choose “check for updates, but let me choose whether to download and install them”, Microsoft will download “important” updates like KB3035583 to your computer. It will be pre-checked — selected. Unless you check Windows Update (WU) and discover
this BEFORE you shut down, it will install it during the shut-down process.
List of updates that if already installed should be removed:
KB3035583
KB2952664
KB2977759
KB3021917
KB3075249
KB3080149
KB3083710
KB3083324
KB3090045
KB3112343
KB3123862
KB3022345
KB3068708
