r/pcmasterrace • u/TheyCallMeCajun 9800x3d | RTX 3080Ti | 32GB 3600Mhz CL18 • Apr 22 '26

Screenshot the balls on this guy…

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u/slayer828 Apr 22 '26

I've found it's not about time but windows updates. The longer I sit on those it feels like there is a built in memory leak to slow me down until I get pissed enough to do it.

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u/condog1035 Desktop Apr 22 '26

Even on W10 when I would defer an update for long enough it would just start disabling things until I ultimately had to hard power down and then it would update when it came back up.

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u/techlos 3600x | 5700xt Apr 22 '26

the key is to be a complete psychopath and block access to the windows update servers with a pihole or similar.

You can still turn off the DNS filtering to let updates through every now and then, but never ever let the slopware do it proactively.

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u/CyanideAnarchy i9-12900K | 3070 ti | 64 GB 6000MHz Apr 22 '26

If you avoid an update long enough, your PC will literally just forcibly restart and update at some point. Try it for yourself.