Microsoft Finally Removes the "Get Windows 10" App

Microsoft offered Windows 10 as a complimentary upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.i users for a year. The company promoted the free offer using the Get Windows 10 app. While the app was designed to help users to easily upgrade to the latest operating arrangement version, it created more annoyance than convenience for a number of users. We saw ceaseless notifications popping out at all the incorrect times, and some users even experienced automatic upgrades. With the end of free upgrade offers, users stopped seeing the notifications that the Go Windows ten app presented.

Considered a nagware, "Get Windows x" is no more

Equally role of its phasing out the Windows 10 free upgrade promotion, the visitor is now removing the app completely from the Windows 7 and eight.1 PCs. The software giant rolled out an update with support number KB3184143 to users nevertheless on Windows 7 and 8.1 machines. The new software release will remove the Get Windows x app.

This update removes the Get Windows 10 app and other software related to the Windows 10 free upgrade offer that expired on July 29, 2022. For a complete list of the software removed by this Windows Update, run across the update replacement information.

The gratis promotion offer officially concluded two months agone. However, reports claimed that users could still upgrade to Windows ten with working product keys. Those who now upgrade to Windows x will take to pay $119 for Windows 10 Abode. Windows ten Pro will cost you $199.

Microsoft gave the following statement:

The Go Windows ten (GWX) application was designed to brand the Windows 10 upgrade process easy for existing Windows 7 and 8.1 customers for the one year free upgrade offering which ended July 29th. Commencement on September 20th, the Become Windows x app and all other updates related to the Windows ten free upgrade offering volition be removed from Windows 7 and 8.1 customer's devices.

Although the app is no longer showing up, users can remove it from their Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs by installing the latest update from Windows Update.