Suggestion: simple batch to remove Windows 10 offer/spam and tracking from Win 7/8

Thanks for this thread! Now I know which updates to avoid installing.

 

I see where you're coming from but I doubt very much that users trying to avoid spyware and Win10 will be able to avoid this. It's a battle like a dog chasing it's own tail.

I want to keep Win7 and on that basis I've done a clean install of Win7 and under no circumstances will I be allowing it to use Windows Update for any reason. (Should say that it runs fine without being updated anyway.) Only way that I will reconsider that situation is after a year has passed and see what MS is doing then - maybe they'll still keep pusing Win10 and spyware after a year has passed.

 

Thank you for sharing this, JanCerny.

I didn't know Microsoft was also abusing it's customers through Windows 7 and 8.1 as well.

Now I do.

 

I think you should include this two to the first post and Script:

KB3083324
Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: September 2015.
This article describes an update that contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

KB3083325
Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: September 2015.
This article describes an update that contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2.

 

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You surely mean KB3064209, correct?

 

Hey all.

Just a quick one regarding the vbs scripts.

Is there a particular way to run these or just a double click?

All they seem to do is create a wscript.exe and do nothing no matter how long I wait (several hours so far.) Smetimes they spawn 2 or 3 more wscript's running but no result?

Most other vbs I have run instantly?