Comment on If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?

• cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You think you can turn them off. Temporarily. They mysteriously turn back on. For no obvious reason. I have literally never in my life been successful at actually permanently disabling Windows Updates. And god knows I have tried. The setting re-enables itself. The disabled service re-enables itself. Some installer quietly turns them back on. You change some unrelated setting and suddenly, there’s Windows Update again! There’s no escape.

  Windows: “Oh, I know you already told me you didn’t want important updates, but I just assumed you still wanted critical updates? Okay, okay, I get it, you don’t want critical updates either, I hear you…” <3 weeks later> “I’ve been trying to warn you about this for the last 2 weeks but you’ve had your notifications turned off, but now I really have to because Microsoft told me this next update is SOOO important that I really need to install it just this once, okay! But really, you should have at least critical updates too. I mean, installing this update requires them anyway, and all the important updates too, so I’ll just turn those back on for you to make this whole process easier next time Microsoft has a super-critical-urgent-mega-feature-emergency-update for you, sorry for all this inconvenience!” <reboots in the middle of your work>

  Linux is the only solution that has worked.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A routing rule solves it, but you’re too Linux to know that.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I tried. Somehow it didn’t take. I spent years putting it on hibernate. On Linux now

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fair enough then lol.

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  • KombatWombat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have had them disabled for years. You have to go through the registry. It’s cumbersome but it doesn’t take long and is permanent.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      motherfucker what part of I did do you not understand? Are YOU a windows update? There’s certain ones, and they changed and they eventually unblocked the fucking updates, or you know what, if it wasn’t that, the process was so fucking convoluted that I did the wrong ones.

      Don’t fucking come in here and gaslight people. these fucking things happened. We tried.

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      • KombatWombat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not gaslighting. There’s a way to do it that’s permanent, but if you do it wrong it will revert. I’m speaking from personal experience.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can delay them, but it will update at the worst time.

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• pyria@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No. Supporting the other comments, the most you can do is reschedule them over and over. So you're wasting time just pushing back the dates but you will forget one day and they'll happen when you least expect it.

  There is no way to turn them off and that is intent by design.

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