Download Never 10 1.3

Steve Gibson has released version 1.3 of Never 10. This program is intended for Windows 7 and 8 users who cannot or do not want to upgrade to Windows 10. The program does this according to the method recommended by Microsoft, which is to remove KB3035583, which disables the pop-up screen and associated services. If you want to switch to Windows 10 at a later time, this program can also be used to restore everything back to its original state. New in version 1.3 is the ability to delete already downloaded Windows 10 installation files from the computer, which can provide up to 6.5GB of free hard drive space.

Changes in version 1.3
Added simple one-click enumeration and deletion of any previously downloaded Windows 10 files. The option will be presented to the user when it is available. Added multiple command-line verbs which suppress the presentation of Never10’s GUI user-interface to support enterprise-wide deployment of Windows 10 disabling.

Changes in version 1.2
Removed the read-only registry key protection added in version 1.1.
Never10 appeared not to work for one person. I quickly prepared a version without the read-only enforcement and asked him to use it instead. He reported that it then worked. I may have overreacted, and probably did, his system may have been weird or in some odd state since many others have carefully tested Never10’s operation and have never reported any such behavior. But since it is certainly conceivable that Windows might take offense to having the permissions removed from those keys, and since, for example, the Group Policy editor doesn’t do that, I felt that “better safe than sorry” would be the best policy . And, frankly, the write-protection was almost certainly unnecessary anyway.

Changes in version 1.1
Added read-only protection to the registry keys. Added a version number to the app’s user-interface. We received some authoritative reports of some systems balking at our SHA1 Authenticode signature, so we obtained a new SHA256 code signing certificate from DigiCert.

Changes in version 1.0
Initial release. Was not change-protecting the registry keys and the executable was signed with GRC’s nearly three year old SHA1 code-signing certificate. Version number does not appear on the app user-interface.