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We have a computer that crashes and has to be restored if 1607 or 1709 try to install. We had to stop the updates or else trash the computer.
No surprise.
On my desktop computer, I have Win7 updates turned off. I still frequently get a ‘critical update’ installed. Sometimes, it messed up things so I have to run a system restore to undo the mess.
MS is bad about forcing updates, but they are so known for releasing bad updates that mess up more than they fix.
Last summer, the hard drive on my wife’s PC died.
I only had a Windows 7 disk to get it back up with, because I didn’t want to purchase Windows 10.
It would be great to get an update for free.
“You’re gonna use it, and you’re gonna like it.”
Operating system cramdown.
Windows 10 is a virus that caused me to use Chrome which I like a lot. I still am prompted for updates for 10 and have found no way to uninstall it.
Windows 10 S will be TOTAL CONTROL
So much for user control.....
There is a way to keep the updates at bay, as long as one little trick is maintained.
In network settings you can make ANY network connection gateway to the Internet a “metered connection”, no matter how it is connected, by cable or by WiFi.
With that connection set to “metered”, the Win 10 understanding is you are paying metered costs for your connection, in which longer connection times cost you more. Because of that cost consideration and not knowing just how long a time an update may take, Win 10 ASKS your permission to run any update, and you can say “Remind me later” for as long as you want.
You can even get that question to stay off your screen for long periods of time, by - as soon as your “connection” is live - going to to task manager and shutting down (stopping) a task called Windows 10 Update Assistant (it usually does not show up until the system sees you’ve made your network connection). I try to stave it coming back too soon by also ending the tasks “Update Orchestrator” and “Windows Update”, usually found in the svchost item that has the largest number of items within it (In Win 10 the number of items in a svchost item is shown next to it in parenthesis).
Yes that is a go around, and yes it must be done every time the system is restarted. With that little bit of work is does keep all Win 10 updates at bay.
I learned about it and starting doing after a Win 10 update made a number of programs on my PC inoperable. I reversed that update, went online on my Win 7 PC, and found the procedure to keep Win 10 updates at bay.
As for “security updates”, Microsoft has to find away to make them independent of any other OS update, and allow security updates to be singled out as the only update you want to run.
Microsoft should have an “application inspector”, where you direct it to (a) run [in background] an application as if the last OS update had not been done, (b) try to run it again under the latest update, (c) determine how the latest update makes the application fail, and (d) replace those latest update items that made it fail, with the items that stood in their place before the update.
Nothing is worse than an OS with updates that obsolete perfectly fine already working programs. Yes, an OS update should help facilitate newer programs that need or want some resource arrangement not expected before. It is NOT automatic that doing so MUST invalidate what the OS accommodated before.
Microscum...
If your computer boots into Windows 10, then it isn’t your computer anymore.
As I recently learned, Windows Update also forces 1709 on some computers running 1703, when the Atom CPU in those old computers has been specified by Microsoft as incompatible with 1709. Rather than noticing the Atom processor, avoiding 1709, and installing the appropriate updates to 1703, Windows Update keeps trying and failing to install 1709.
Linux or quit whining about the Borg