These just showed up in the optional category on my system:

Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664

Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: February 2016 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3135445

And I just hid them both!

I got my computer rolled back to Windows 7 by a professional, and in doing so he disabled the Windows 10 update notifications.

It's back again!

>>2
You might be interested in downloading/installing this script to "block all Windows 10 components on Windows 7 and 8" ( http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/26/block-all-windows-10-components-on-windows-7-and-8/ ). At the very least, the article will tell you what updates to uninstall from your system. That's what I did (although I left kb971033 which I think is benign).

And you'll want to adjust your Windows Update settings as noted here:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-prevent-windows-10-upgrading-your-system-recommended-update

Otherwise, the Windows 10 components will just keep coming back as you've seen. I've got to hand to it Microsoft, if this operating system thing doesn't pan out, they have a promising career as malware coders.

And here's a new Windows 10 component released today:

Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3123862

I added that KB number to my "NOWIN10.BAT" file and hid the update.

Link to the new Aegis site, from where you also will be directed to the download page:
https://github.com/th3power/aegis-voat

>>5
Thanks. In another thread I posted this article which mentions Aegis:

Microsoft Strikes Again – How to NOT Upgrade to Windows 10
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/microsoft-strikes-not-upgrade-windows-10/

I've got my own batch file that searches for installed Win10 updates, so I'm not using Aegis myself. Are you using it? If so, how's it working for you?

It works like charm in removing those updates who are Windows 10 related, but there is still a chance that some of the removed can be offered again in Windows Update.
Experienced that with KB 971033, who was offered again as an important update shortly after Aegis had removed it from my system.

But its not actually an important update as Microsoft claims, its now ever important to stay away from downloading and installing it.

I have read several places on the web, that people's actually legal versions of Windows 7 has caused to be reported as being illegal versions because of that update.

>>7
I read up on KB971033 when I read that Aegis was lumping that in with the Windows 10 updates. However, KB971033 got installed on the day I first booted up this computer, which was almost two years ago. So I don't consider it part of the Windows 10 malware suite.

Certainly KB971033 is a far cry from KB3035583 (GWX). I just read speculation on ComputerWorld that Microsoft will use GWX to force install Windows 10 on the machines of unsuspecting users:

What’s Microsoft going to do next to make sure we’re all running Windows 10 by, oh, let’s say, July 2017? Here’s my guess: Microsoft will flip GWX from pushing Windows 10 to automatically “upgrading” our Windows 7 and 8.1 systems to Windows 10.

Think I’m crazy? Tell me that again later this year.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3030564/microsoft-windows/microsoft-uses-the-force-you-will-upgrade-to-windows-10.html

KB3035583 (GWX), one i am glad that i don't have, but i do guess that if people wake up to a forced install of Windows 10, it could cause them to leave the Windows OS for something else, such as Linux Mint.
One i already have planned migrating to once Windows 7 is no longer supported, because its so darn WinXP and Win7 like.

>>9
The problem is the number of applications available for Windows is far greater than for Mac OS X or Linux. I don't see a mass exodus to either one, but their numbers could increase as Microsoft acts more and more like a Russian cyber gang.