On Win7, here are steps I did to remove this painful Win10 update notification that kept popping up due to an implicit (not invited) windows update, Accidentally enabling Windows Update caused MS to install this pesky troll on my machine and Im sure U may encounter the same (I am not sure if Win8 although I assume is the same) on a Win8(.x) box:
1. Go to C:\Windows\System32\GWX take ownership to urself/admin account
2. Set permissions to Full Control Everyone
3. Kill any GWX.exe process via task manager or akin,
4. Rename the folder C:\Windows\System32\GWX to C:\Windows\System32\GWX.old\
5. Delete the Tasks under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tasks
- backup of course this reg key
- search for *gwx*
- delete subkeys
See here for more details
6. Delete C:\Windows\System32\GWX.old\
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