From my perspective, Microsoft updates are nasty viruses.
“Microsoft updates are nasty viruses.”
indeed. which is why i disable updates on all my client’s PCs and I update only once a year or so manually.
And use a program called WSUS update offline:
updates are first preloaded by the download part of the program and then later applied offline to each PC to be updated without having to go through the nightmare of hoping every PC’s MS update program works (usually not), and then watching i spend hours downloading all the updates each time.
Furthermore, WSUS update offline downloads and applies ONLY security updates and NOT the rollups, which include security updates as well as whatever viruses MS wants to install.
unfortunately, it’s a bit tricky to use, namely, the MS update service must be re-enabled in Automatic mode (but with Windows Updates disabled from the control panel), plus it makes a temporary user account/loginID for when applyin updates and then deletes the account when its done, so you really can’t tamper with it once you’ve started it to apply updates or it can leave a real mess.
I have a woodblock game installed from the Windows playstore.
It’s intrusive (video) ads (that had to be viewed, and were timed..if you click out to another window, it paused) were driving me nuts.. I searched and searched all over the net trying to find out how to block the ads..... nothing.
I finally tracked where the darn thing was installed.. found the ad folder, took ownership.. deleted everything inside the folder.. stripped all access from SYS/ADMIN and anything/anyone else listed.
Now, every time an ad is supposed to pop up, it is a blank window with an x in the corner to close it. MUCH better ;^)
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OH... I also deleted the file that contaned my “Windows” ID number; that seemed to help too ;^)