How many times have I gotten to the end of a session, need to pack up and take the laptop with me (powered off), and the "ShutDown" button has the dreaded "You Must Install These Updates Or Else" icon over it. And no, I don't use "Hibernate", it is untrustworthy with the apps and networks I use.
Does it do that "ShutDown" button thing for the updates with the "Restart" button, when I have plenty of time and want it to install and restart? NO-O-O-O-O!
Only when I'm in a hurry and need to power it down quickly.
Worst. And. Stupidest. Design. Ever. in that regard.
No only are the auto updates ALWAYs at an inconvenient time, they don’t even give you an option. I’ve been computerizing for decades. I know every setting all the way back to HP-UX and before that my dad’s old ZX81.
There are no setting to allow turning off the auto updates. I found a few times i got away with it but eventually it will say “Do you want to update no or in 15 minutes?”
Open Powershell. Type in
Stop-computer -force
It then shuts down.
(Circling back to this thread after a couple of busy days)
Here’s a curious thing that I thought I’d share. I was given an ISO to test (SW_DVD5_WIN_ENT_10_64BIT_English_MLF_X20-26061.iso). As intimated by the filename, it is a 64-bit version of Windows 10 Enterprise. I loaded it onto a spare laptop and started using it. I almost immediately started encountering anomalies with it. I can’t get the OS activated - I can ping our KMS server (which was upgraded to allow Windows 10 certificates) and telnet to port 1688 but it doesn’t auto-authorize and manual command-line attempts fail as well.
I went to set my WiFi connections to metered but the functionality to adjust the settings (under “Manage WiFi Settings/Manage Known Networks) but the button to set to metered is missing for each of the connections. I did some research and found instructions to make these adjustments using command-line. That looked like it worked but then I encountered the “You Must Install These Updates Or Else” notice that convinced me that the metered option wasn’t really working like the earlier RTM build of Win-10 - the machine is accepting and installing updates.
You are supposed to be able to determine the specific build number from the Windows Settings applet (http://www.howtogeek.com/236195/how-to-find-out-which-build-and-version-of-windows-10-you-have/) but even this functionality is missing. I sent a report back to the SCCM administrator (where I got the ISO) but haven’t heard from him yet.
I hope that he doesn’t put this build into production!