I’m not a gamer and very little about Windows 10 appeals to me. I still enjoy Windows 7, but only between Patch Tuesdays and Rollup Whatevers (the third Tuesday of each month? - we don’t know). Since the arrival of GWX and a rash of seriously buggy Windows updates, I’ve had to disable automatic Windows updates, install GWX Control Panel, and vet every single update Microsoft proposes. It had its annoyances (like no user-control over focus-stealing and poor scaling support, off the top of my head), but I didn’t have to think about it all that much. I used to really enjoy Windows 7, when I didn’t have to worry about Microsoft jacking it. Maybe someone will figure out a way to get around this, by blocking the ads or somehow installing the security updates without the added fixes. While you could block KB3139929 on your system, you'd prevent security patches from being installed on it, and if you allow it, you have no option to remove the KB3146449 update individually which pushes the ads to Internet Explorer 11. There is nothing that you can do about it right now. If you think that this is the end of it you are probably mistaken. Obviously, not using Internet Explorer would resolve the issue as well, but this may not always be possible and only a temporary solution as Microsoft may be inclined to push Windows 10 offers to other programs or tools of the operating system in the future.Īpart from regularly updating updates so that they are pushed anew to user systems to bring along with them the dreaded "Get Windows 10" offer again, Microsoft seems to have made the decision to tighten the screws even more by pushing the offer to its Internet Explorer browser as well. This means that one would have to remove the security updates as well to get rid of the advertisement for Windows 10 on the computer. The main issue with pushing Windows 10 offers this way is that users cannot remove them from their system as KB3146449 does not appear in the list of installed updates for the system as it is integrated into KB3139929. This appears to be only the case for non-domain joined machines, and the banner is not displayed on all systems the update is installed on. According to Woody Leonhard over at Infoworld, the update pushes a banner on Internet Explorer 11's New Tab Page advertising the company's new operating system Windows 10. Microsoft does not reveal what this means, or what this has to do with Internet Explorer. This update adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10. When you open the right page, you find the following information:
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