Post by Noel on Feb 2, 2016 10:39:40 GMT -6
Lots being talked about right now about the continuing ongoing GWX saga. Microsoft has raised the level of aggressiveness yet again.
Out of curiosity, if you have a Windows 7 or 8 system you're trying to protect from being updated to Windows 10, what do you have in this file?
C:\Windows\Logs\Gwx\ConfigManager.log
I have a Win 7 system that I turned up in April, 2015 with all updates, and even back then Microsoft was already pre-loading GWX. Later in the year I swept through that system, after having uninstalled all the GWX that I could find, leaving nothing but a couple of logs. The dates and data I found in the file I named above are interesting...
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info Initialized logging. Cmdline: /RefreshContent
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info MUID: {B968A68C-2175-45A0-AF45-1AA25031DE35}
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info Using Prod content FwLink go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=526867.
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info Port: [443], Secure -> [TRUE]
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info IE specifies auto-detect.
2015-09-08 00:19:26, Info Trying auto-detect
2015-09-08 00:19:28, Info Unable to retrieve proxy info for URL -> [0x2f94].
2015-09-08 00:19:28, Info Continuing without proxy
2015-09-08 00:19:28, Info Continuing with download for url go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=526867.
2015-09-08 00:19:31, Info ConfigManager failed with error [0x80072efd].
If you're concerned that GWX activity may still be happening on your system that you're not aware of, have a look in this log. I'm curious to see what you see there.
-Noel