How to remove GWX.exe

Do you have Windows 7 or 8x and recently found a small tile in your Notification tray that looks like a Win10 icon? Does this advertisement for the 'free' upgrade to Windows 10 annoy you to no end? Well, there is a way to remove that item. It came from Microsoft as an 'important update' called 'KB3035583'. It's called GWX.exe. And now, I am going to teach you how to make it DIE.

It can be removed quite simply by following the simple steps in this tutorial...

http://www.myce.com/news/how-to-uninstall-kb3035583-the-windows-10-downloader-for-windows-7-and-8-1-75681/

And this one...

http://windows.mercenie.com/windows-8/how-to-install-and-uninstall-updates-in-windows-8/

Or, you can just follow these steps...

1.) Go to Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features and click on “View Installed Updates” on the left side bar of open Window. It will show you the list of installed updates in your Windows 8 system.

2.) Select the update package that you want to uninstall, which in this case would be KB3035583. Right Click on it and choose “Uninstall“.

3.) User Account Control (UAC) will ask for your confirmation about removing the updates. Just Click on “Yes“.

4.) Again, UAC will ask you to save and close the open Application. Just Click on “Uninstall“.

5.) Wait for the un-installation process to finish.

6.) Reboot Your System.

And that should do the trick...

- Lord Publius