Thousands of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users are seeing Reserve your Windows 10 upgrade today desktop notification for the last couple of hours. The alert helps Windows 7, and Windows 8.1 users register for the free Windows 10 upgrade offer, but one will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 without any registration.
The optional update, KB3035583, is responsible for this notification, and one can get rid of the alert by uninstalling this update. Most users have already received this update via Windows Update, and many of them have already registered to upgrade their existing Windows 7/8 installation to Windows 10.
However, many users who are not interested or users who have already registered want to get rid of “Windows 10 is coming. Get it for free” or “Reserve your free upgrade” notification.
Luckily, getting rid of Upgrade to Windows 10 message is quite easy. You just need to uninstall an update from your Windows 7 or Windows 8 to stop receiving the message.
If you’re not interested in upgrading your existing Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation to Windows 10, you can get rid of by following the below-mentioned instructions.
On a side note, those of you who are not interested in upgrading your existing Windows 7/8 installation to Windows 10 can test drive Windows 10 by installing it in dual boot with Windows 7/8 or by installing Windows 10 in a virtual machine.
As you likely know by now, Windows 10 is a free upgrade to current Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 users who upgrade within the first year of Windows 10 RTM release.
Get rid of Reserve Your Free Windows 10 Upgrade alert
NOTE: This method applies to both Windows 7 as well as Windows 8.
Step 1: Open the Run command box by simultaneously pressing Windows logo and R keys. The Run command can also be launched by typing Run in Start/taskbar search field and then pressing Enter key.
Step 2: In the Run command box, type Appwiz.cpl, and then press Enter key to open Programs and Features window.
Step 3: Once Programs and Features window is launched, click View installed updates link located in the left-pane. You should now see all the installed updates.
Step 4: Now, under Windows Updates, look for the update titled KB3035583. Right-click on the update, and then click Uninstall to remove the update.
Step 5: Finally, close all running programs and reboot your PC. That’s it!
Good luck!
David says
I have just inadvertently upgraded to windows 10 and immediately I am having speed and ‘freezing’ issues with my computer. I hate MS.
Theseus Liberatus. says
ADMIN…
Please amend your page to include the FULL steps to removing KB3035583 update.
You neglected to remind people that the next time they update windows, it will attempt to dl the update again.
Please explain fully the process for hiding this, and any other, updates that are not wanted.
Yours hopefully Theseus.
Brian says
I uninstalled KB3035583 per the instructions above (Windows/R, > Appwiz.cpl > uninstall Update KB3035583)
I am extremely grateful for the advice and am hoping this has done the trick. The taskbar icon has gone, and touch wood, I am hoping I will not get any more little blue screens asking me to “Upgrade” to Windows 10. I was always VERY careful when erasing it each time. And according to a Guardian report, MS is now using the top righthand cross as AUTHORITY to download Windows 10. This is just SO evil! Windows 10 also removes the Administrator’s abilty to do System Recoveries – either limited or advanced.
When I downloaded 10 initially, it knocked out my keypad and rendered my 8.1 computer useless. So I immediately reverted to 8.1. Another precaution I have taken as Administrator, is to block ALL Windows Updates in the Security Options of my computer. They were always a nuisance and anyway, I am totally happy with my 8.1 as it IS, so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!!
Kathy says
Everything went smoothly and your instructions were so easy to follow.
BillUSA says
I’m learning Linux and will eventually put it on my Windows laptop. I will be looking at Apple portables in a few days and when the day comes that Windows 7 is no longer supported and this desktop is obsolete, it’s goodbye Microsoft. I am done with their nonsense going back to Windows 95.
Jennifer Hargrave says
OMG Windows 10 upgraded automatically, I hate it, it’s slow even though I have high speed. I managed to uninstall it but it keeps coming up your upgrade will start in ie:59:32 min, I keep postponing it. What the hell, its my computer and I don’t want WINDOWS 10. Leave it alone already!!!!!!!
fran says
I never asked for the up grade and it makes my computer run crash and won’t let visits place I want to can wait to some to take it out for me
I said no and you did any way not at all happy
Dianne says
I have a new computer with window’s 10 installed, it is ok for all that web stuff and all. I found out last night my DVD’s do not play unless online omg I do not want to do that so old computer has to be reset to 7 again. I watch my movies a lot on the computer with head phones and it urked me to not be able to do it. Well that is main complaint. Dianne
MIK says
IT KEEPS COMING BACK EVERY TIME IT UPDATES WINDOWS
John Doe says
The reason why we are forced by MS using win 10 is because they want to get rid of win XP. I have read somewhere that also win 7 works with XP and as we know MS don’t want to support XP anymore. That’s the reason why win 10 is for free. Unfortunately I am a dummy with OS otherwise I would have use Linux so MS could go f*k their self.
Faraz says
Meanwhile, I think I will have to look into a viable non-Microsoft o/s as a step up from Windows 7. I’m already sore at the way it forced XP-clingers to upgrade by prematurely ending support for that and Office 2003. One of my laptops had some possible malware from M$ disguised as a genuine XP update long after support ended, which turned out that it messed up its copy of Word 2003, forcing us to install Office 2010 on it.
Faraz says
BBC Watchdog should perhaps now get on this case and perhaps even we should use whatever democratic leverage that we do have left to lobby our governments against this anti-trust or customer bullying practice. Microsoft, get ready for some class-action lawsuits coming your way! God Willing.
lylastar says
Last Small Gift to Public (that came up over this GWX crisis)
One of the very first reasons I consider MS’s Win 10 GWX.exe criminal was that the ‘Administrator’ user (computer system owner using his/her full power) couuld not erase or modify the various “GWX.exe copies, subdirectories, and Task Scheduler entries. To me this is criminal as what a hacker would have done to usurp control of my system from me. Indeed Microsoft has acted wrecklessly, anti-respectfully, and rudely desperate. BUT BY THE LEGAL USER AGREEMENT THEY EXEMPTED ALL THESE ACTIONS FROM BEING CRIMINAL. To use imprecise language, they are temporarily renting permission to use their programming, when a person buys a Microsoft OS (now this is paid for as part of the computer’s cost when machine is purchased). They expect to switch the user to the next and the next OS version etc, inatead of evolving the same OS with progressively more sophisticated features. Their objective is max. $$ for stockholders, it has nothing to do with THE BEST QUALITY THEY CAN PRODUCE AND IMPROVE. The old-school idea of “doing your best” has long vacated the stage of modern businesses. Now it is all about most money to the stockholders. So employees, and customers, and the product, are chesspieces not ends in themselves. To Microsoft they are supreme owner of all copies of their OS’s, so if they “break into” or “backdoor their way into” someone’s system, this is like a landlord inspecting one of his rental units.
I cannot live with this equation. And GWX has told me it is time to go back to UNIX (now known as Linux), the OS I have always loved. THE ONLY GOOD NONCOMMERCIAL OS!
On the following page (double click on the *.reg zip-extracted file, say OK to everything, even the Continue?’s. Any file or directory highlighted if you right click on the file, a new option “Take Ownership” will allow one to, without knowing the technical commands, gain power to modify or rename or delete any file and any directory. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION ONLY! (Only works if you are the Administrator). Good luck:
intowindows.com/how-to-take-ownership-of-a-folderfile-in-windows-7/
Bye!
lylastar says
MICROSOFT”S DEATH OF TRUST AND A NEW FORK IN THE ROAD TO THE SMART AND WISE
I first encountered the company “Microsoft” back when I had first bought a home computer (within 2 years of the original Altair 8800 which was essentially the first possible-to-own-at-home computer) back in 1982 for me. It was a Kaypro II and ran the Z80-based CP/M operating system, predating MS-DOS. This was the “golden age of the noncommercial microcomputer” where essentially only the smartest, or luckiest, or most adventurous members of western society discovered their first non-dedicated machine: a machine you could instruct to be one thing on Monday, and then a totally different thing the next day, or next second. What it could do at first was only display text on a monitor, or act ass a glorified on/off set of switches using its “serial port” in the back. And decades later we are here now. Micrrosoft was a very cool company. They made all the computer language interpreters and compilers. THEIR SOFTWARE allowed you to program your new microcomputer! Mostly back then if you wanted a program to fit in the tiny memory RAM that was available back then, you ha to learn ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE FOR YOUR CPU. This is a *very complicated* thing to do! But it was Microsoft that made the ASSEMBLER for the Z80!
Now however, they are a huge mega-corporation. They are now using criminal acts to force themselves upon their customer base. They have betrayed the sacred compact between owner and free willed buyer by employing FORCE and SECRECY to deny the customer the free will of free choice. They no longer think it is necessary to be the BEST and that a customer will go to them because of it. They are powerful enough and stupid enough to use the IGNORANCE OF A CUSTOMER AGAINST HIM. For myself a feel at a fork in the road is at hand whereby I must either choose enslavement, or start over with the OS I personally always loved the best, UNIX…that was its old commercial name..now it is called Linux…it is the only noncommercial OS.
Basically almost all scientific research computers and highest level secrecy computers use it, it is the best, the most trustable, but VERY hard to initially start to learn. Once you get it tho you’ve gotten it for life and it is easy. But not without a terrible initial struggle! But it is the only answer after leaving Microsoft in the dust for sacred betrayal of my trust. Sorry no Windows X for me!
–lylastar, NJ USA
lylastar says
Wow…now I sure do sympathize with you all having loads of trouble with GGWX.exe (Get Windows X) and the wise choice not to install it, but no body has seemed to have discovered how deeply criminal, in my opinion, Microsoft has travelled to completely FORCE THIS OS VERSION DOWN YOUR THROATS INVOLUNTARILY. Lry mr explain: When GWX gets first installed, it actually corrups and bypasses the system administrator account’s ability to ever remove it. Microsoft borrows the owner’s administrator privileges to create a new untouchable userid ‘TrustedInstaller’ and makes sure that this new user gets ownership and write privileges to their install file directories (in C:\Windows) and then removes the Adminisrator’s rights to write to or delete any of its files. Then it retests its continued presence via the system’s Task Scheduler. Use file explorer to goto C:\, then search for “GWX” anywhere on your system. It should find many copies in a variety of places, esp. in c:\Windows. highlight one of the GWX.exe files it finds. then right click on Properties. Click on the Security tab. You will see the new user there “TrustedInstaller” that has the only rights to write to or delete the given files and folders. All the way up to C:\Windows which the Administrator can still own. But even so all of the GWX subdirectories will deny deletion or renaming or being overwrtten. Ifr you were to erase it, Disk Scheduler would run a check every new login and also at 3am and under a couple other trigger conditions and simply restore GWX to the system tray within 24 hrs. In other words, Microsoft is using hacking and phishing techniques on older Win 7 and 8.1 OS’s to break its own security to FORCE, CRIMINALLY, the user to hsbr to switch to GWX, You can fight it to a stalemate. You must deny all upgrades. tHEN USE CONTROL PANEL TO SELECT ACCESSORIES THEN TASK SCHEDULER. Double click that. Then find GWX corrupting you here: Task Scheduler Library | Microsoft | Windows | Setup | GWX & gwx triggers. You wont be able to modify the triggers, but you can nullify gwx. Go down each task and right click and choose ‘DISABLE’. Thus, say you login and the trigger checks and finds no gwx.exe. It will use one of the enabled tasks in gwx to either recopy a hidden version on your system, or simply ask microsoft to send over another upload. MICROSOFT HAS HACKED ALL OVER YOUR WIN 7 OR 8.1 OS TO DEFEAT THE VERY SECURITY IT SOLD TO YOU.
In my opinion this is a Felony system penetration under U.S. federal law. Sadly the FBI will not arrest Microsoft. But me, it is the final blow. I will never employ Microsoft in any WAY EVER Again for life. This is a fatal breach of trust! Me, I am gonna bring up UNIX (Linux)!
Toni says
This threads was usefull to remove this update message, but I wonder why this and every other page has like 80% of
unnecessary and useless information to the specified search?
rudy says
who is this guy who knows you want to stop the annoying offer but still has the fucken nerve to still ask you to test drive the damn thing what a jackass.
greg frank says
have windows 7 and did the following to fix problem:
remove updates kb2952664 (win7) kb2976978 (win 8.1) and kb3035583. right click on c:\ and perform disk cleanup. remove all temporary files. hide updates by right clicking on update and choosing hide update. download and install GWX control panel from majorgeeks.com and problem was solved for me.
R Keith Beal says
I have a Windows 7 I want to stay Windows 7.
Clicked a system tray icon for a crashed application and it initiated the Windows 10 Upgrade.
Now my Windows Update queue is clogged with the Downloading Windows 10.
I do not want to switch to a software lease of Windows 10 over ownership of Windows 7.
I followed the instructions for removing the KB3035583 -related instructions including Disk cleanup and rebooting.
It persists like a virus!
How do I cancel the upgrade before downloading the Windows 10 files?
How do I remove it from the Windows Update queues so I can apply security upgrades to the Windows 7 system?
It is as if you are holding the security of my data HOSTAGE to me switching to your annual revenue model!
AGAIN: How do I remove the Windows 10 download from the Windows Update queue and purge temporary files related to the upgrade?
Dena says
I didn’t like Windows 10 , I gave it a good try. I am much happier with XP or 8. Microsoft needs more competition so they will bring back better customer service.
Unfortunately, after trying this , the Windows 10 update & pop up ads keep coming back-for 2 months now. I uninstall, and it reinstalls itself without my desire or permission.
Bad customer service to force a product on customers if they do not like it. This is not China or a socialist country with dictators. What other alternative do we have besides Microsoft operating systems for a pc?
aron says
what surprises me, is that the people posting here, don’t understand how windows 7 updates work. One of the fundamental thing you should learn when upgrading to a new OS is how the updates work, and how to prevent them.
The solution above is really simple and I hope people are following the advice, because it just happens to be correct. When you have searched for a update, and you find a bunch of them, it’s always advisable to search the internet for the kb update you going to install, windows 7 has had many bad updates, which have caused serious problems for people’s operating system’s through faulty drivers etc.
For the amount of people taking up the free upgrade to windows 10, almost as many people are coming back to 7, because windows 10 has driver problems, it has other problems, and for the most part, especailly gamers, many titles simply will not run, and many business applications will not run on the professional version either.
That and the fact it was released far to early, and it’s very much beta, despite it being released since July.
After upgrading to windows 10, i’d suggest coming back to windows 7, so you have complete compatibility and let windows 10 mature. Once you have upgraded, download the iso and install it on a thumb driver. you do not need a product key. windows 10 recognizes your hardware by checking it against it’s hardware profile when you upgraded…you can go back to windows 10 5 years from now, unless they come out with a windows 11…,microsoft are anytjhing but honest.
do not want to install an update? check for updates, then when its found updates, simply right click the one you dont want and press hide. by doing this, you will never see the update again. unless you want to at some other time.
PK Work says
When I follow the instructions, when I get to the list of updates, I get a blank page. No Updates listed. I also cannot seem to get to an area where I can tell it to shut off automatic updates. Anyone have any ideas?
Kevin says
Assuming you’re not set to – install updates automatically.
Once you’ve uninstalled KB3035583 – Select Restart Later
Re-run Check for updates, KB3035583 should show up as an available update
Right-click the update and click Hide Update. Click OK – Now restart PC.
Mindy says
I have that problem as well. I uninstalled it but I still have “upgrade to Windows 10 home” in Windows Update. So how do I get rid of that part??
Keith says
Worked for one day. Very next day there it is again. That’s right Microsoft. Keep pissing off your customers.
Sylvain says
Hi,
Thank for help, I did it, it works. But I have the same problem Murray said:
I uninstalled KB3035583 and the Windows 10 Icon disappeared from the task bar BUT the Windows Update window still says Your Upgrade to Windows 10 is Ready and it asks me to restart and I just can’t get rid of it. Naturally no other Win 7 upgrades will appear. I am so ticked off at MS for the incredible amount of grief and waste of time.
Has anyone got any ideas???
Thanks, Murray
I guess, somewhere has been and is still written that the update is ready, whatever the update is ready or not. So Windows proposed that message everytime. I don’t know whether other Win 7 upgrade will appear again or not, but quite annoying or disturbing…
Any idea abouty that?
Thank,
Sylvain
Murray says
I uninstalled KB3035583 and the Windows 10 Icon disappeared from the task bar BUT the Windows Update window still says Your Upgrade to Windows 10 is Ready and it asks me to restart and I just can’t get rid of it. Naturally no other Win 7 upgrades will appear. I am so ticked off at MS for the incredible amount of grief and waste of time.
Has anyone got any ideas???
Thanks, Murray
Shep says
This fix is bogus, since a following update removes the ability to see the Windows Update folder to which the update in question USED TO reside.
souheib says
i just want to take a moment to thank you for your demonstration on how to get rid of this uncooked monstrosity that is Windows 10 ( it needs a thorough checks before it can go live in my opinion ) .
Anywho , thank you admin and hope the rest of the human population won’t suffer because of this .
Smegmantis says
I installed Windows 10 a few days ago and became frustrated with it. I lost a third party Desktop Calendar and could only access a fresh download of it – without all my saved events. I spent a long time trying to find the original calendar and finally…success! I finally found it linked with my “Snood Deluxe” icon. All I had to do was to click IT and I could view my calendar with all the saved information. Logical – huh? Then all I would have had to do would have been to search for the Snood game. Logically speaking, probably linked with something like CCleaner. DOH!
Anyway, at least, MS made it easy to roll back to Windows 7 – which is what I did.
I went from Win 95 to 98 to XP (which I thought was pretty good) to Windows 7 – all without a hitch. They can keep Win 10. It’s not for me.
Randy says
I have uninstalled these updates and the nag in my taskbar is gone but it’s too late, I guess. Anytime I open Windows Update, the only option is to restart now so it can install Windows 10. I have already spent more than a week installing, backing out and re-installing Windows 10 on this computer – and it’s beautiful – until I leave the computer alone for an hour or so. Then it crashes without any trace of why. Windows 10 is NOT READY. Now I am going to have to restore from yesterday’s backup to try and stop this thing before it gets as far as it has. This is EVIL the way this thing has taken over.
Gennaro Aveta says
I want to get rid to windows 10 on my laptop, NOW! How do I go about this? Send help, NOW!
Your new product sucks. I wish I had an APPLE NOW!
Get if off my laptop, Please!
Send me info to get rid of it! I just bought a new laptop with windows, 8 and I WANT IT BACK! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Aveta
Antonio says
I upgraded to windows 10 from windows 8 and now I cannor reply to e-mails or forward them
what should I do?
Josette says
wow…didn’t want to upgrade this laptop to win10, but while installing other updates the win10 must have been automatically checked in the other screen…now it’s going to force me to update…No Way To Cancel the update…this s.u.x.
admin says
Massimo, hide the particular update from Windows Update.
Massimo says
I hate this update and it continues to update when you delete it I have contacted MS and asked them how to remove it and the just give the above details. They also ask why I do not want it and I said if I wanted it I would ask, They can shove there windows 10 right back up their Ar$e stop pushing $hite on me when I do not want it. How can I stop it downloading constantly when I remove the above code please?! I hate windows 10 and I am happy with my windows 7, windows 8 is rubbish so windows 10 is not looking great!
tausif says
There is another way of removing this annoying notification, you can check here:hxtp://dotiny.com/arqwl1
Bukak3Dick says
Ok, actually please disregard my previous message. I found these numbers to also match, so….
B2990214
3050267
3050265
Bukak3Dick says
Playas, I do not have that message number either, but I do have that ratchet AF windows thing in my systray. Please assist. thanks,
Charlie K. says
The above deletion process does not work. I have tried this twice only to find that the update is back the following day. It’s as if my ISP automatically loads it each day onto systems that do not have the update.
jules says
i don’t have an update with that name in my list of installed programs.
admin says
@ Jon,
Sorry, but you’re wrong. The free upgrade is available only in the first year but whoever upgrade to Windows 10 in that period need not to pay anything to use it after the first year.
jon says
actually windows 10 will only be free for 1 year, after a year of use you will need to pay for the product. that is the information I read in the “get windows 10” message on my windows 7 and confirmed on the windows web site. that also means an office upgrade might be necessary in the future.