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Today is Friday May 27. This morning when I came into work, I turned on my computer and began a normal day. But then as I visited this forum it occurred to me this could have been a very stressful & aggravating Friday. As I noted in my reply to your post on Monday of this week, since I had clicked the "x" on the Win10 installation window, the sneaky Win10 install had been scheduled for Thursday night without my knowledge. I only discovered this after running the utility you graciously provided the link for. Since I switch my computer off in the evening, I suspect that when I turned the computer on this morning the Win10 install would have been sitting there waiting to pounce. By the time I made coffee and started trying to work, I would have been bogged down in a frustrating cycle of "what's going on and why?" So again I just want to say "thanks" for the heads up you gave on Monday. Many thanks.

Thank you, to the most Normal guy I know. I clicked. It told me the update was Enabled even though I thought I'd done everything all of you recommended. I clicked to Disable. I guess all is good. I did NOT get anything saying I have Win10 files. Thanx for sharing. Going to go do this on my laptop now.

You're welcome! Never10 mostly changes a Group Policy (I bet you didn't even know you had Group Policies!) to enable 'turn off upgrade to latest version. It also makes the same change in your Registry (AllowOsUpgrade = 1 (off)). Those are things most of us might be uncomfortable doing. If you want to see your Group Policies, open up Run (Winkey+R) and type gpedit.msc. Just don't change anything!

Just now I ran the never 10 tool (again !) and noticed 20,000+ files/folders with Win 10 . I took advantage of their secondary tool to remove all of those files/folders !!! Yeah !!!! Win 10 is disabled and nothing of Win 10 resides on my computer (or at least I hope that's true)

A family friend (lawyer) came to me with a laptop a couple weeks ago. She has all Macs in her office, except for one Windows laptop that she uses for a specific piece of software. After refusing Windows 10 updates for ages, it finally decided it was time to upgrade itself, and it went badly. It got stuck in a boot loop with the Windows 10 update only half baked, and I couldn't find any information about reverting to the previous system without actually being able to boot into Windows 10. I worked on that stupid laptop for hours trying half a dozen of the least destructive solutions first, but finally I had no choice but to put the laptop back to factory settings. Thankfully her software vendor had excellent support and was able to tell me exactly what needed to be backed up before wiping the system. I don't see how Microsoft can, in good conscience, be so heavy handed about an OS upgrade, especially without some method to revert to the previous system if the upgrade goes badly which is not an uncommon occurrence.

Just got off the phone with ATX support - my 2013, 2014 and 2015 ATX programs would not work. A hacked Adobe Flash update put a rootkit in my computer, and went after all financial programs (QB, etc). I can't say enough about ATX support. In less than 20 minutes from the time he remoted into my computer, he had me up and running! Now that's what I call service! Very professional and very competent. Wait time and service was less than 30 minutes. That's acceptable to me.

A cute spoof of all the no-tax nonsense we all hear about. Sent by a friend; the link goes to YouTube. How To Pay Zero Income Tax

The only thing I would add is don't hire your own attorney. How would you know who to call, what their experience is in these matters? Contact E&O first, let them pick the attorney when and if one is necessary.

well that was rather easy. thank you.

Agree. You may have to wait as much as 20 minutes though, depending on how busy the website is. If that does not work, from the Return Manager, click on Support, then choose Customer Service Utilities, then choose Synchronize e-files with EFC. This process will make sure all your e-file statuses match what is in their system. If these two steps do not correct the problem, then contact support. I prefer to take all possible steps to eliminate the need to call them.

Go ATX Support, then the e-file center. You need to re-hang the file. Give it a couple of minutes, then go to your program and request acknowledgement. Open up the file, correct it and re-send.

I feel the same.