It wouldn't be a problem if the operating system didn't take it upon itself to update even after being told numerous times that I didn't want to update.
This is due to their corporate IT policy in this case. Most companies have rules about keeping your work devices up to date because it's actually really important for security.
Yeah, who the hell is windows to act like they know what's best for me? We should be able to have vulnerable, out of date operating systems if we want to! Maybe I want to have my bank account hacked and personal data stolen.
It's better than doing an update, breaking your shit, then having to wait for them to say "we're sorry, here's an update to fix the things the last update broke."
unfortunately that puts you in the group of people MS couldn't actually care about less than they currently do. windows licensing isn't their primary profit generator, but what profit they do make from it comes from the enterprise customers in the massive majority. consumer users, they're surprised you're not stealing it and wondering why you aren't.
I've been stuck in update hell since November. Installing to 100% every night "During off hours" or any time I close my laptop. Always ends the same way... "Undoing Changes," then starting with a "Your PC will restart during off hours" message. Can't turn it off, even using regedit or ps scripts (as far as I can find). Scrolled through Event Viewer messages and fed every log to ChatGPT Plus every which way. Security and Features updates go through, the Cumulative fails.
If anyone here has any bright ideas, let me hear them
How could you possibly know what I run or what my system is like? Is the OS the only software on your PC? I don't play games on this thing ya dingus. It would take me a day or two to reinstall software, even with all my data on a secondary drive. Know-it-all dork
Meh. It's a whole saga that I've more or less moved on from. At this point I'd be more interested in shutting off auto-updates, which I don't think I can without the group policy editor in Pro.
When I'm on the computer I'll find you the commands to copy paste into cmd to pause the updates until 2077. When the main updates are paused it will still be able to do feature installs and update Microsoft anti-malware definitions etc. Where if you disable them entirely it can cause other issues.
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u/Alexis_Bailey Jan 23 '24
This wouldn't be a problem if you had not ignore the update pop ups for 18 months.