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Recently Microsoft has changed from giving a choice of upgrading from windows 8 to 8.1 to forcing this update with a maximum 4 hour delay.
Any thoughts on this?
How to prevent this besides turning off updates?

Thanks Cool
Why don't you want to upgrade?
Microsoft  made it mandatory
(10-27-2014, 10:00 PM)Dave1995 Wrote: [ -> ]Why don't you want to upgrade?

From my experience and my clients, the upgrade to windows 8.1 has caused major havoc.

Networks loosing sharing.
Drivers needed to be re-installed. (mostly printer drivers)
Programs disappear and need to be re-installed
People loosing files because they are moved.
I did a clean install and upgraded .. when I tried it with all my data programs etc, it was very slow after the upgrade so that's why i did clean install then upgrade, but always make regular back up of you system to an external source, ie portable hard drive