This annoyed me so much that I started writing a tutorial on how to get rid of this piece of shit. Reasonable Windows 7 has been altered without my consent, and now I did not have freedom to do what I want. In other words, all of a sudden, my perfectly Permissions to edit the folder containing the gwx.exe binary. I could not disable the scheduled tasks that reactivates the process every few hours, and you need special However, removing this thing off proved to be a very difficult task. Turns out, this oneīelongs to a process called GWX.exe, and it is a part of Windows update KB3035583, which is deceptively labeledĪs an important one and preselected, intended to give Windows 7 and 8.X users an option to freely upgrade toīut then, I decided I was not interested. Then, a couple of days later, I suddenly noticed a Windows 10 like icon in my system tray.
Several days ago, on one of my Windows 7 boxes, I did some updates.
