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Hey, we have each others backs in this forum! I've learned a lot hangin' with all of you.

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.

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.