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Stop Windows 10 from automatically updating your PC

Promoted apps are basically used on new PCs as links to boost Windows 10 users to download Store apps, and different apps are promoted in different countries.

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Answer: If you buy a copy of Windows 7 and install it successfully, then you could be able to upgrade free. The company boasted that the update improved performance in everyday tasks, such as boot times that are supposedly now 30 percent faster than Windows 7 on the same device.

It’s a further extension of the biometric capabilities of Windows 10’s Windows Hello security platform, which has already enabled fingerprint authentication via the Surface Pro 4 Type Cover, and more widely offers authentication based on facial recognition.

Microsoft’s “Get Windows 10” nagware will be ramped down by July, the tech giant has indicated. However, Aul tweeted earlier this month that the Windows Insider updates will only come to the Verizon’s Icon mobiles.

New app updates to Windows 10 arrive on a regular basis, and that’s definitely a good thing, given the fact that Microsoft has pushed the operating system to the “Windows as a Service” approach. We’re going to put out some guidance for our employees in general, listing the characteristics of what Windows 10 would give you if you put it on your home system.

One of the key new options is the ability to hide apps that you have previously installed (and subsequently uninstalled) to help clean up listings. The newest title bar also allows users to execute a variety of different commands. They have just taken this to a whole new level. You can learn more about slipstreaming the convenience rollup into Windows 7 SP1 install media at the Microsoft web site.

Although the update was released for both platforms, many users report that they’re unable to download it in Windows 10.

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Now there are five slots for promoted apps available in Windows 10, as you can see in the upper slide picture. Let us know in the Comments section below.

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