By the way, one of the things in the article above is a download for the GWX Control Panel. No, this will not help you control the Grey Wolves Extension for Silent Hunter 3, Microsoft has stolen the GWX label for its automated nagware/spyware program. Turns out you can use the trojan's settings against it and tell it to just go to sleep and not wake up. You do it with the GWX Control Panel.
Now here's the GWX control panel after I destroyed the above "Dirty 10" upgrades. See it doesn't find GWX anywhere because it's been uninstalled. But it does find something very interesting: Windows 10 download folder found? YES. And it's 5.4 GB of crap I didn't ask for, downloaded on MY bandwidth without my consent and without even advising me that it was taking place. This is my work computer (read small hard drive) and 5.4 GB is NOT chicken feed here. Crap! Let's push the Open Folder button:
There it is, in its entirety, snuck onto my system by a trojan horse that if any other company did it they would have executives in prison. Nobody has the right to do that to my machine. If you're running GWX Control Panel, push the button to turn Operating System Upgrades off. Don't worry, you can still VOLUNTEER to upgrade your operating system, it just can't happen without your knowledge or consent now. No system functionality has been compromised.
Now to go delete that $Windows.~BT load of bull excrement. How much you want to bet there are some illegal characters in the folder name that make it impossible to delete? Here goes!
How can ANYBODY trust Microsoft with an operating system "upgrade" after all this? This makes Sony's 2005 rootkit look like a free game of tic-tac-toe.
Update: $Windows.~BT is a hidden directory of course because Microsoft wants you to know that they value you as a customer and informed consent is a hallmark of their respect for you and your property. Once I ran Windows Explorer as administrator, I was able to delete all of it except for a directory called Sources. It's chock full of subdirectories, but when you tunnel down they are full of .avi files and .mui files. I'm not going to make the rookie mistake of assuming these .avi files are harmless videos.
It's time to dig out the Ubuntu Live install disk. You can boot Linux right off the CD/DVD and Linux does not respect Microsoft's rules. It'll delete anything I tell it to. And, of course, as Microsoft amply proves, its rules are no longer worthy of respect.