Strict adherence to this tutorial is no assurance that the pesky “Get Windows 10” applet has been “exterminated”.
Two days ago it appeared again in the Notification Area like New York City cockroaches.
KB 2990214 & KB 3035583 (this one actually installs the applet) were properly designated as hidden, but Microsoft Updates removed both from the hidden folder & reinstalled them surreptitiously.
Every 2 months it will be a regimen of uninstalling & hiding the cockroaches until the offer of a “free upgrade” expires next year, July 29, 2016.
Microsoft must be up to no good if they are trying so hard to get Windows 10 disseminated , whether we want it or not.
Honestly, if I could insinuate a copy of OpenEMR into the bloatware of Win10, I certainly would think about it.
On the other hand, it actually is quite possible to snuff and prevent insinuation of that applet. Down here in Florida, New York cockroaches are a total joke. New York humans are much harder to dispose of.
I actually recommend that folks upgrade to win10. I also recommend they very carefully click the little text that allows you to configure how it is installed, restrict it to using a local account only, then snuff the “app” thingies for each user account while installing classicshell.net (using settings that completely replace the whole win-ten/eight interface…or even the Win7 interface. I like to bring everything back to the XP Luna theme. Minimized as possible, and absolutely no non-desktop anything. It is a lot more like old gnome than windows 10 at that point, while taking advantage of the good stuff (and there is a lot of good stuff, and a lot of removal of crap). I real install takes about 10 more minutes than just letting it do it’s own thing.
Since when was it not necessary to totally gut half of the default behavior in an OS of any stripe? Certain ‘features’ of DOS 7.0 come to mind.
With Classicshell.net, you have a simple menu that gives you direct access to the old school administrative tools that allow you to tweak things fast. It is so good in fact, I dropped the development of my own windows shell a few years ago.
-Art