It is no secret that many users, to put it mildly, cause annoying notifications (notifications) in the system tray that cause irritation, often distracting from work. And an icon with a link to receiving a system update in the form of a “tens” installation is no exception. Let's look at a few basic ways to remove the Get Windows 10 icon from the tray. Moreover, as it turns out, this can be done once and for all.
What does the Windows 10 receive icon mean?
In general, the presence of such an icon in the notification area means only two things: either the user has registered on the official website and, so to speak, is standing in line for access to receive rights to install a new “OS”, or Microsoft regularly reminds of the existence of such an opportunity in the form special offer with the installation of a free system on top of the existing one.
How to remove "Get Windows 10" from the tray? In principle, there are no particular difficulties. It is clear that in the presence of “Ekspishka” or “Vista”, such an icon simply cannot appear, since the “ten” is placed only on top of the seventh and eighth versions. But now let's look at the simplest solutions if, for example, a situation arises when the user for some reason simply does not want to switch to a new OS. First of all, if a reservation has been made, it can be canceled. But consider what can be done without such cancellation.
How to remove "Get Windows 10" from the tray using the notification area?
As the easiest option, you can offer cleaning the so-called notification area. To do this, use the settings called up by right-clicking on the taskbar from the properties menu.
A window will appear on the screen in which all displayed icons and the corresponding notifications will be present. Uncheck those that are not needed (including the “dozens” receipt icon) and confirm the changes by clicking the “OK” button.
How to remove "Get Windows 10" from the tray using update removal?
True, it is worth saying that such a technique may not always help. Here, more effective measures will have to be applied so that the constant notification, as they say, “does not callus eyes.”
Removing the "Get Windows 10" icon from the tray can be quite simple if you remove one critical system update (usually this is the KB3035583 package).
Here you will need to log in to the "Update Center", and then select the installed updates item at the bottom left. Now you need to sort the updates by name, find the specified package and delete it using the command called by right-clicking on the corresponding line.
As a rule, this process can take from a dozen seconds to several minutes, after which it will be offered to update the list to continue working. That's all. In most cases, this method works, and the icon from the system tray disappears safely. Sometimes, however, with the automatic update turned on, the system may install this package again. There is nothing difficult in that when searching and installing in the advanced settings, make a custom installation by canceling the installation of this particular package.
If the icon appears again
Unfortunately, depending on the system itself and its settings, this option, although it is considered the most suitable for most users, but it cannot guarantee for one hundred percent that the icon will not appear again in the future. But if this already happened, you can try to use the most cardinal method. How to remove "Get Windows 10" from the tray in this case?
We go to the "Update Center" again. If automatic mode is set, a window will appear with a message stating that the system has several optional updates available. We click on the line and again find the above package. But it’s better to search for updates manually again (the package will be determined), and then right-click on it and select the “Hide” option. After that, you can install the remaining available updates and reboot the system. Now the icon signaling the availability of the “tens” will certainly disappear from the system tray forever.
By the way, even with the subsequent automatic search for updates and their integration into the system, this package will not be installed, because, in fact, it is simply ignored by the “OS”.
Conclusion
As can be seen from the above, the problem of how to remove “Get Windows 10” from the tray is solved quite simply. Which method will be used to solve it does not matter, but, in general, we can recommend using the third method as the most effective, although the first two also help in many cases.
As for the second option, you can give advice on its use only to those users for whom the automatic update of the system is disabled. This is understandable, because there will be no search, let alone appearance of proposals for the installation of available mandatory and optional packages.
However, for starters, you can use the usual cleaning of the notification area, but only if in the future you may need to switch to a new system, but so far, so to speak, this is not planned to be done in the near future. The icon will simply disappear, but the ability to activate the installation of the "tens" will still remain, although it will be inactive. And you can activate it at any time.