I had to travel recently, so I took a laptop with clean Windows 8.1 Pro install.
At my destination, I've purchased a SIM (they only had 1GB data packages) and put it into the 3G/wifi router I carry.
I powered the laptop, connected to Internet via said router, checked few things, then went away for few hours.
When I got back to apartment, my data package (and Internet connectivity) was killed because Microsoft idiots decided to start downloading Windows 10 even though I have explicitly closed/rejected all the 'offers'.
Those retards did not take into account the possibility that not everyone running Windows is on unlimited broadband data package. Great planning there.
At home I did a plain install of 8.1 on another computer, and same thing happened - even though I explicitly rejected everything related to Windows 10, idiots made it so download starts anyway. I had to 'hide' the Windows 10 in Windows Update in order to stop it from being downloaded.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:47AM (#50494625)
You're "supposed" to set the connection as "metered" which will prevent Windows from downloading any updates at all. (Or at least it's supposed to. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it turns out that it doesn't.)
Not surprisingly, while marking a connection as "metered" in Windows 8 is trivial (right click on the network and choose "set as metered"), it's nearly impossible to do it under Windows 10. You have to go to Settings, Network Connections, Advanced Options, and then there's a "metered" option hiding somewhere in those options.
Of course, if you're using Windows 7, you're screwed. The "metered" setting is a new Windows 8 feature, and can't be done in Windows 7.
Agreed on that, yeah. You'd think the cellular, etc. providers would be all over it too, given all their complaining about heavy data users. Of course, it might cut into their revenue streams from people going overhead because they forget to limit the usage.
My Home Win7 VM tells me that I CANNOT update to Win10 because the VMWare display adapter is incompatible with Win10 (until/unless I upgrade to the latest VMWare this is exactly what I want). Here's hoping that Win10 hasn't stealth downloaded anyway.
Been doing this for few weeks now (Score:5, Interesting)
I had to travel recently, so I took a laptop with clean Windows 8.1 Pro install.
At my destination, I've purchased a SIM (they only had 1GB data packages) and put it into the 3G/wifi router I carry.
I powered the laptop, connected to Internet via said router, checked few things, then went away for few hours.
When I got back to apartment, my data package (and Internet connectivity) was killed because Microsoft idiots decided to start downloading Windows 10 even though I have explicitly closed/rejected all the 'offers'.
Those retards did not take into account the possibility that not everyone running Windows is on unlimited broadband data package. Great planning there.
At home I did a plain install of 8.1 on another computer, and same thing happened - even though I explicitly rejected everything related to Windows 10, idiots made it so download starts anyway. I had to 'hide' the Windows 10 in Windows Update in order to stop it from being downloaded.
Re:Been doing this for few weeks now (Score:5, Informative)
You're "supposed" to set the connection as "metered" which will prevent Windows from downloading any updates at all. (Or at least it's supposed to. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it turns out that it doesn't.)
Not surprisingly, while marking a connection as "metered" in Windows 8 is trivial (right click on the network and choose "set as metered"), it's nearly impossible to do it under Windows 10. You have to go to Settings, Network Connections, Advanced Options, and then there's a "metered" option hiding somewhere in those options.
Of course, if you're using Windows 7, you're screwed. The "metered" setting is a new Windows 8 feature, and can't be done in Windows 7.
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It is really annoying that "metered" isn't something that the network can announce. Can we get it in IPv6 Router Advertisements please?
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Agreed on that, yeah. You'd think the cellular, etc. providers would be all over it too, given all their complaining about heavy data users. Of course, it might cut into their revenue streams from people going overhead because they forget to limit the usage.
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My Home Win7 VM tells me that I CANNOT update to Win10 because the VMWare display adapter is incompatible with Win10 (until/unless I upgrade to the latest VMWare this is exactly what I want). Here's hoping that Win10 hasn't stealth downloaded anyway.
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So you found the magic key here - install some hardware that isn't supported by Win 10 and it won't consider a forced upgrade for now.
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If you use plain old ethernet cat cable you can't set a metered connection
Re: Been doing this for few weeks now (Score:1)
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I think the ability to mark connections as metered was new in Windows 8.
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That'll be 1.4 billion smartphone users, just to get us started.
Or maybe there's another definition of 'stupid motherfucker' that we should use?