{"id":83519,"date":"2015-11-16T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83519"},"modified":"2015-11-16T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:16:13","slug":"bug-results-in-windows-10-accidentally-installing-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/83519-bug-results-in-windows-10-accidentally-installing-itself","title":{"rendered":"Bug results in Windows 10 accidentally installing itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Microsoft\u2019s plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82999-windows-10-to-automatically-download-part-of-microsofts-strategy-to-push-the-os.html\" target=\"_blank\">push their new OS<\/a>, Windows 10, by automatically downloading it to your PC whether you like it or not annoyed you, then this is going to have you steaming.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, though they\u2019ve been avoiding it for some time now, a bug has resulted in Windows 10 \u201caccidentally\u201d installing on a number of users\u2019 devices without their say so.<\/p>\n<p>And should they notice Windows 10\u2019s shenanigans, the OS would continuously attempt to install itself \u2013 because that\u2019s not frustrating at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_83523\" style=\"width: 1128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/W10_Failed_Attempts-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83523\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/W10_Failed_Attempts-1.png\" alt=\"W10_Failed_Attempts-1\" width=\"1118\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows 10 failed attempts. Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gordonkelly\/2015\/11\/10\/microsoft-admits-windows-10-automatic-installs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In fact, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gordonkelly\/2015\/11\/10\/microsoft-admits-windows-10-automatic-installs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>, most users would only notice that the update had taken place when they restarted their PCs, only to be welcomed by a new operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Many users have only recently opened their update history recently and discovered an absurd number of download attempts, all of which fail. Some users are unlucky enough because the update doesn&#8217;t fail.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rather ironic to consider that those who suffered failed downloads of an update are the fortunate ones.<\/p>\n<p>According to users suffering the apparent OS rebellion, in case you\u2019re still concerned and vehemently searching your update history, the download barrage has gone quiet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time something like this has happened, and Microsoft seems to have solved the issue, but they can\u2019t be surprised at the negative feedback they\u2019ve been receiving after incidents like this.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/gaming\/operating-systems\/matthew-wilson\/microsoft-admits-a-bug-caused-windows-10-to-install-without-permission\/\" target=\"_blank\">KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In related news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/83515-the-best-features-of-first-major-windows-10-update.html\">The best features of first major Windows 10 update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/83509-playstation-4-is-blamed-for-isis-attack-on-paris-and-everyone-ignores-the-larger-picture.html\">PlayStation 4 is blamed for ISIS attack on Paris: and everyone ignores the larger picture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/83421-more-steam-users-are-already-using-windows-10-than-windows-8.html\">More Steam users are already using Windows 10 than Windows 8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft, it has been fixed however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":83521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16377,475,91,1969,10473,13906,15397,13009],"class_list":["post-83519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-automatic-update","tag-bug","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-operating-system","tag-os","tag-pc","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}