[doctorwho]

I have machines that were and are still running Windows 7 and Windows 8 (I keep them around for testing). I was never forced to upgrade them to Windows 10 and it was never done "auto-magically" for me. I've also never seen a Windows update destroy data without telling me it was going to destroy data, usually by reformatting a partition or a drive. You'd probably have to just blindly answer OK to every prompt you saw for that to happen. If you're one of "those users" then I have zero sympathy for you. Anyone who takes their computer to the Geek Squad definitely falls into that category, especially if they believed they had to buy a new machine because on OS upgrade broke their hardware. Not saying I like auto-update but this sounds like a serious case of PEBKAC.

[ourmandave]

Yeah, no. The force upgrade is a dialog box with a countdown timer. In my case I closed it by clicking the upper-right "X". It counted down off-camera and then closed everything and auto updated.

When the 'accept' dialog comes up it'd already been grinding away for 1/2 hour. I've cancelled MS installs before and there's always sh*t left behind.

[Buge]

Hmm. I'm still running windows 8.1 and never saw that. I've had the annoying countdown plenty of times for normal updates. But never for upgrading to 10. I never customized anything such as disabling updates or anything.

[vacri]

Yeah, fuck the proles, computers should only be for us techies.