Great post. That is the good part of the story. The other part is when the Free and hard-sold Windows 10 upgrade actually disables the Windows 7 or 8.1 that had been working, without any known possibility of repair or returning to the original program without losing all one's software.

My general rule is if someone is giving me the hard sell, not to buy under any circumstances. And if they are promising something for free, to forget about it. I have two surviving pc's of the three I had using Windows 7 and 8.1. All three have been bombarded by Microsoft's hard-sell offer of a "free upgrade" to Windows 10: Bombarded to the extent that the Windows 7 and 8.1 programs were being disrupted by Windows 10, slowed down, with "please wait" requests given as each Windows 10 hard-sell pop-up would have to finish popping up. Finally I gave in to one of the "choose, upgrade now or upgrade tomorrow" pop-ups and instead of click on the tiny x to close the pop-up till next time and put off fate, chose upgrade tomorrow. Windows 10 was downloaded, I accepted it, and it worked for a couple hours.

Then it froze the screen of my computer with a "Windows 10 Upgrade: 100% Complete, Please Wait" that lasted hours to no effect. No amount of rebooting has availed. The computer is now disabled by the "Free" upgrade. Many others are in this situation. If Microsoft likes Windows 10 and installs it on new computers, fine, but to force it through it own product onto users of functioning PC's is . . .

There is a World of Pain out there of others in my situation. Microsoft has not bothered to respond to us.

and one of the worst "Dirty Tricks" is that the upgrade nag-files (like GWX.EXE) are all marked as "owned by system" so the user cannot uninstall or delete them - unless you know how to use a different operating system to do it. Then the next MS update re-installs them even if you do.

This to me is some of the worst a company can do and that is to affect a end users trust in a company. I think Microsoft stepped over the line when it download the Windows 10 nags over Windows updates. It never should have taken for granted that a user would eventually want Windows 10. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are still supported operating systems. There was not immediate need for users to upgrade for security reasons or end of support. I myself have nothing but positives to say about Windows 10. But I choose to keep one PC running Windows 7 because that's what I choose. It's unfortunate I have to disable some Windows updates for fear of the one's pertaining to Windows 10. I should not have to do this. This was absolutely the wrong path to take for Microsoft to propagate Windows 10. These days people can easily move to a Chromebook or Macbook or even Linux. Alienating users like this won't go well for Microsoft in the end.