Windows Update: Thanks, no really

[Mitchell J]

It's an incredibly user-hostile system :^) :sigh:. I've started using elementary OS[^] whenever possible to avoid this sort of stuff :java: Surely something like a monthly update day (with reminders the day/week before) would be appropriate for everything except emergency worst-case security patches? I don't mind having to restart to install updates, I just want control over when and why my machine reboots. :mad:

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[thatraja]

I turned off automatic updates long time ago after having similar experiences in past. I do only manual updates(once in a month or two). Apart from windows, I even turned off automatic updates for other softwares. Last year CCleaner's particular update made headlines due to security issue(Hackers injected their code in build to do .....). Also browsers. Some add-ons/plugins not compatible for new versions.

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[Munchies_Matt]

Just turn WU off Chris unless you want a particular fix, then you can go get the kb update yourself.

[Rage]

AFAIK, you cannot turn off updates under win10 anymore. Even the registry hack did not turn it off on my machine.

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[kmoorevs]

Yep, it got me this morning as well!...3 VS projects open, half a dozen notepad scratch areas open, at least a dozen web pages open, multiple tabs in SSMS open with work in progress. With AI being 'the thing' these days it seems to me that Win10 could use a bit of logic to avoid causing unsaved work to be lost by a forced restart. The forced restarts are really my only gripe with Win10. I've tried many settings (in vain) to keep it from happening with no joy. :sigh: One other problem I get is that many times after an update, I have to go and reset registry permissions for some of my customized right-click menus. :mad:

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[David ONeil]

Just disabling the Windows Update service seems to have done it for me. Have had it off for past year, and only turn it on temporarily to update at my convenience. No problems.

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[patbob]

You can't disable updates with Win10. I did that on one of my systems, and after ~6 months, it noticed and crashed itself to force a reboot so it could re-enable updates again.

I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.

[thatraja]

Oops. I use 8.1 & very happy with this one.

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[patbob]

Ditto here. My main laptop at home spent a brief week running Win10, but got rolled back to 8.1 the day after MS force fed it an update. They had to turn it on from a full power off, and left if on after they were done. No more Win10 for me except for my experimental laptop.. and they're about to lose that one too.

I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.

[thatraja]

Actually this 8.1 came with laptop by default. It's been 4+ years & everything is going on smooth & fine. If something happens, I'll go with Linux. No more plan for Windows. Right now I use 99% FREE & Opensource softwares only in my laptop.

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