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Earlier this week, longtime PC guru Steve Gibson released a free application that blocks the Windows 10 upgrade on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems. Dubbed Never10, Gibson's product reaches into the registry and uses the blocks documented in Microsoft's Knowledge Base article 3080351 to "disable Windows' pestering insistence upon upgrading Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10."
Many of you have written to me and asked how Never10 compares to GWX Control Panel, a free program with similar intent that Josh Mayfield has been distributing since last August.
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I've written about Gibson's products and test sites in many of my books. He has a decades-long reputation for turning out reliable, solid, no-nonsense software. Mayfield knows the Get Windows 10 nagware inside out. Back in January, Mayfield analyzed the descriptions in KB 3080351 and found several errors in Microsoft's documentation, which Microsoft subsequently fixed.
I set up several VMs and tested the...