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> Speaking of updates, Windows 10 no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates in the settings page. Pro will let you defer feature updates, but not securi

by x0054 11y ago

> Speaking of updates, Windows 10 no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates in the settings page. Pro will let you defer feature updates, but not security updates, and Enterprise versions will offer a long term servicing branch option, but the goal here is to keep Windows up to date going forward. This is kind of a big deal. I have had Windows Update brake things in the past, and I also have a limited internet connection during the day time. It's disappointing that this can not be disabled, and ran at will, when I am good and ready to deal with the potential screwups.

babby 11y ago
While I recommend a switch to Linux/Mac, you can make updates behave like Win7 by opening "Edit Group Policies" in the start search. Then look for Windows Updates for the option. Without this done windows will actually download updates automatically while you are ingame or something else network sensitive, it's so fucking stupid.
- x0054 11y ago
  Is that setting available in Win10 Pro, or just enterprise?
  - otis_inf 11y ago
    Enterprise. Pro has the 'delay till we say it's time' option.
    - babby 11y ago
      Thats wrong. Pro lets you choose not to download it indefinitely with the option I described. Unless you're implying it auto-downloads after a few weeks, I wouldn't know.
      - otis_inf 11y ago
        AFAIK you can disable it but it will enable it automatically after a while again, so it's not indefinitely disabled.
grandalf 11y ago
> no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates While you may be in the 0.01% of users who can intelligently determine which updates to install, consider all the botnets and preventable security exploits that exist because people disabled windows updates. The entire Windows anti-virus industry thrives mostly because of unpatched machines (also because of earlier Windows insecure by default settings). So while I don't use Windows, I'm very glad that Windows is forcing the masses to update.

by x0054 11y ago

babby 11y ago

While I recommend a switch to Linux/Mac, you can make updates behave like Win7 by opening "Edit Group Policies" in the start search. Then look for Windows Updates for the option. Without this done windows will actually download updates automatically while you are ingame or something else network sensitive, it's so fucking stupid.

x0054 11y ago
Is that setting available in Win10 Pro, or just enterprise?
- otis_inf 11y ago
  Enterprise. Pro has the 'delay till we say it's time' option.
  - babby 11y ago
    Thats wrong. Pro lets you choose not to download it indefinitely with the option I described. Unless you're implying it auto-downloads after a few weeks, I wouldn't know.
    - otis_inf 11y ago
      AFAIK you can disable it but it will enable it automatically after a while again, so it's not indefinitely disabled.

grandalf 11y ago

> no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates While you may be in the 0.01% of users who can intelligently determine which updates to install, consider all the botnets and preventable security exploits that exist because people disabled windows updates. The entire Windows anti-virus industry thrives mostly because of unpatched machines (also because of earlier Windows insecure by default settings). So while I don't use Windows, I'm very glad that Windows is forcing the masses to update.