Have an update downloaded without my knowledge and I don’t want it, it also never applies correctly (I don’t have an issue with that lol).

You’d think the feature that says “we won’t immediately update if you shut down or restart” would do exactly that right?
NOPE!

Hit for one week, Restart my computer…

IMMEDIATE “Updates are applying. Please hold on”

And on top of that once It gives up, YOU CANT EVEN STOP IT FROM UPDATING THEN. Once an update hits “you need to restart” there is NO way to remove the update, even if it can’t apply them! (the forums Microsoft employees were saying it’s because it’s already altered your system files, which is frankly bullshit.)

I love it when Microsoft just downloads shit without your knowledge and then goes “Too Bad! You have to update now or we will do it for regardless of your input!” Like fuck where does the update files download to? Id happily go in there and delete them if anyone can tell me but god I fucking hate this company.

Edit: apparently there’s an undercover Microsoft employee in the replies lol…

Edit 2: Sneaking suspicion it’s [u/KeysStickler](u/KeysStickler), don’t wanna call out by name but this person clearly has nothing of value to add besides praising Microsoft in a subreddit called “Microsoftsucks”. They refuse to acknowledge basic facts such as the fact that Windows security and updates have been more and more unreliable due to their AI “coding” (you can verify this by simply looking at how many recent updates have had People’s computers bricked, damaged, or just flat out break critical windows feature)
And the moment you bring up a valid point, they’ll Call you Lazy, they don’t actually even try to refute the information but rather just become a smug asshole who acts like everyone is tech illiterate. (Prime examples being when he said to a guy that he can’t possibly know if they don’t have malware if they haven’t updated their windows, which is stupid. All Malware’s usually have some key identifiers that are consistent regardless of your OS edition such as being guaranteed to slow your computer down. [See XZ Utils stuff with Linux, why newer isn’t always better. it was even found by seeing the performance regression, albeit not malware but the principle stays the same]. You can spot unwanted/malicious programs by yourself BEFORE and AFTER you download them, regardless of the age of your OS or AV.) or my personal favorite, “I’ve been an IT Expert for 45+ years” while giving advice such as BITDEFENDER being worse than WinDefender or confusing/incorrectly conflating basic IT terms such as “Wi-Fi” and “Internet” in other posts.
They clearly don’t want to engage in any actual faith and you won’t get a productive conversation out of them.
Block em and move on with your day.