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Win8 Upgrade to 8 .1

Can you stop a Win8 to 8.1 upgrade from happening?
I have a user who cannot run a certain application if it installs.
The pc is at the stage where it says windows can postpone the install for 10 min or 4 hours.

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McKnife

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McKnife

@lionelmm: "you should be able to continue to use Win8 and still get updates" - not quite. The lifecycle policy for win8 requires users to update to 8.1 by october 2015 in order to receive further updates from that point (reference: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&qid=&alpha=Windows+8&Filter=FilterNO ). But for now it still works :)

John

Also, as I noted, Windows 8.1 runs fine although I did have to upgrade a few applications between V8 and V8.1. That is because Windows 8.1 was a new operating system and not just an upgrade.

Still, as noted above, it is necessary to move forward or updates will soon stop. Microsoft was very clear about that.

Lionel MM

lifecycle policy for win8 requires users to update to 8.1 by october 2015
That is still translates to "able to get updates" and hopefully by then this questioner should be able to have worked out a way to get the APP in question working under 8.1

John M

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There was no way to stop the update.
Thanks guys for all your input