How to remove the 'Get Windows 10' app from your PC

Shawn I had the window on the task bar on three of my machines and after doing the reserve thing today they no longer appear. very simple.
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Sweet finally got the "Get Windows 10" icon. Also reserved!

heyyahblah said:

Check to make sure you have all recommended or optional Windows update installed currently. Specifically update KB3035583 if you have it there, give the computer a shut down, restart and it should come up. But check to see if you have that update installed. It came up on both my PC's today.

I have this update, but no icon... Although I did have to reactivate Win 8.1 through MS's support number, due to upgrading my system (thx to my MB going fubar last week). I hope this reactivation didn't screw me out of my copy of Win 10.

Note: Clean install Win 8.1 ISO, activated via Win 8.0 key and MS support.

fracking4oil said:

I have this update, but no icon... Although I did have to reactivate Win 8.1 through MS's support number, due to upgrading my system (thx to my MB going fubar last week). I hope this reactivation didn't screw me out of my copy of Win 10.

Note: Clean install Win 8.1 ISO, activated via Win 8.0 key and MS support.

Update:

I was able to get the icon & register by following: http://techdows.com/2015/06/how-to-e...1-taskbar.html

That W10 reserve icon is like a virus! Hide the icon and it just comes back on the next startup/reboot. Might just be a coincidence but my W7 machine just started to take over three minutes to startup.

I have this little colourless icon but, I don't mind. I did make it so it doesn't show in the taskbar. :)

wptski said:

That W10 reserve icon is like a virus! Hide the icon and it just comes back on the next startup/reboot. Might just be a coincidence but my W7 machine just started to take over three minutes to startup.

Yes, I removed the Windows update KB file and the next boot it shows up again ready for reinstall.

magilla said:

Yes, I removed the Windows update KB file and the next boot it shows up again ready for reinstall.

Yep, you have hide it that's all. I removed it, the needed reboot was 30-40 seconds and a startup was 35 seconds from Glary Utilities however they calculate it. Is MS trying to punish us for not reserving a copy by slowing our startup times?