Personally I see no reason to refuse updates*. We do seem to need to keep repeating this over & over. Or you can get the Professional edition of Windows 10 - the forced updates only apply to the Home edition. If I have to stay offline to avoid the updates, I may as well stay on XP, Vista, or eventually Win7.Įdited by brainout, 28 June 2015 - 12:49 PM. Since you can't delay or opt out of Win10 updates, however nice it might be, I'm not sure I'll want to use it. Once you have successfully installed this build and activated, you will also be able to clean install on that PC from final media if you want to start over fresh. As long as you are running an Insider Preview build and connected with the MSA you used to register, you will receive the Windows 10 final release build and remain activated. I've gotten a lot of questions from Windows Insiders about how this will work if they clean installed from ISO. Windows Insiders running the Windows 10 Insider Preview (Home and Pro editions) with their registered MSA connected to their PC will receive the final release build of Windows 10 starting on July 29th. Pasted from that article, paste being from official Windows blog, Moreover, the Insider's page, corroborates him. So if you think Ed's wrong, then maybe you should write him? Ed Bott explained the issue well in the link I provided linked_up, with quotes from MSFT.