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This article mainly introduces how to prevent Microsoft from updating your operating system to Windows 10. It is very detailed and has a certain reference value. Interested friends must read it!

Whether or not Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users want to keep the original operating system, Microsoft has begun to help Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users update to Windows 10.

If you have already encountered this situation, the following will show you how to delete the Windows 10 upgrade installation file; if you have not encountered this situation, the following will also explain whether you need to download the Windows 10 upgrade installation file according to your own requirements.

How to delete Windows 10 update files

Browse your system partition and you will find one or two folders named $Windows.~BT and $Windows.~WS. Both are hidden folders that contain the installation files you need to upgrade to Windows 10. Because it is a hidden folder, you need to set up hidden folders, files, and drives by first selecting the tool, and then selecting the folder option.

Although you can delete folders directly, the way to delete them is through the disk cleanup tool built into the system.

Click start to search for disk cleanup.

Right-click the application that appears and select run as Administrator. Select your system partition and click OK.

In the list, you will see temporary Windows update installation files. Select it, and then click OK.

This clears all the $Windows.~BT folders. Go back to the location of the original folder, for computer users who have the $Windows.~WS folder at the same time, if the $Windows.~WS directory remains, the directory can be deleted manually.

To prevent the file from being downloaded again, click start menu-Control Panel-programs-Uninstall or change the program.

Click to view the updates installed on the left.

Use the search box to enter the following names to find the following updates: kb3035583,kb2952664, and kb3021917 (Windows 7) or kb3035583 and kb2976978 (Windows 8). Right-click the update and select Uninstall.

When you are finished, select system and Security in the Control Panel, select Windows Update, and then click check for updates. Right-click each of the above updates and select hide updates.

How to prevent the installation of update files

If you are like me, you have not been updated by the download file so far. You will be more interested in how to prevent the installation of updated files:

* step, install your own patch file for the corresponding operating system, which is required if you are Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

The second step is to press win+r to open the run, type regedit in the run, open the registry editor, and then enter. Find the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Policies\ Microsoft\ Windows\ in the registry editor and create a new key named WindowsUpdate.

The third step is to create a new 32-bit DWORD value named disableosupgrade in this item, double-click it, and set its value to 1.

If you change your mind and want to download the update file and upgrade to Windows 10, you can change the value in disableosupgrade to 0.

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