First post, by Jade Falcon
Here is a top tip on how to block/remove GWX without any 3'd parts app blocking updates or anything like that. I know a lot of you guys don't like GWX and some use 3'd parts app blocking updates, but I find this to be much more useful, I use it at work on about a 100+ PC's running windows 7, it should work on windows 8 as well.
1: Go to C:WindowsSystem32 were C: is the drive windows is installed on.
2: Right click on the GWX DIR and click properties.
3: Click on security tab, then advance
4: Click on Owner tab, at the bottom of the Owner tab there is and edit box. click on it.
5: Click on your user (not the administrators user) then check the box that says "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" then click ok If you user is not there add it buy clicking on the "other users or groups box"
6: Now that you back to the GWX DIR properties click edit under the security tab and deny all rights to the system user admin user and any other user but your own. Be sure to give your user full right to the GWX DIR as well. You might receive a bunch of nonsice about not being able to change the permissions of the files, just click ok if you get those.
7: Open the task manager and kill GWX.EXE.
8: Delete everything in the GWX DIR in C:WindowsSystem32 were C: is the drive windows is installed on. But keep the GWX DIR.
Done its gone for good, sort of, the GWX updates will still be on you PC, but you will not be bugged by GWX anymore.
I don't know of anyone easel knows about this or not so I thought I'd post it, I'm sure I'm not the only one that had this idea.