In message , John
Rumm writes
On 23/12/2020 08:54, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Tim Streater
writes
On 21 Dec 2020 at 19:31:04 GMT, mm0fmf wrote:

On 21/12/2020 18:03, John Rumm wrote:
*On 21/12/2020 16:13, Bert Coules wrote:

*Any suggestions as to why my Windows 7 (Home Premium) desktop PC
*insists on telling me that it's updating the operating system (always
*with three updates) every single time I switch it off or reboot it?
*Win7 hasn't been supported for about a year now, has it?

*On every occasion, the "upgrading" goes through, only to happen again
*the next time.

*Probably windows update got its knickers in a twist. If you run the
*troubleshooter, it has an option for fixing that which works most
of the
*time.

*Failing that delete or rename the c:\windows\Software3Distribution
*folder, and then manually run windows update once again.

*Alternatively download the media creation tool for win 10, and let it
*upgrade the machine to 10:

*https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/soft...load/windows10

*7 is getting far enough out of support to be a liability now.


If you have a genuine Win 7, you can still move to Win 10 without having
to pay.

I'd really rather not, thank you. Whoever designed the UI for Win10 was
clearly on drugs at the time.

If you install Classic Shell (or similar) it makes W10 look much more
like W7 (almost as good as XP!). As already stated, the upgrade is
free, and normally trouble free. You don't need a new licence key,
but the one you have gets changed after the upgrade. However, it's
probably a good idea to record the present W7 key, 'just in case'.

Yup, you can extract that with produkey:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/produc...ey_viewer.html

Indeed. There are several others, but I like ProductKey. IIRC, it's
portable, so you can run it off a memory stick.
--
Ian