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At some point recently windows update on windows 7 decided to change settings from "tell you about updates and you choose when to download and install them" to
by dageshi 11y ago
At some point recently windows update on windows 7 decided to change settings from "tell you about updates and you choose when to download and install them" to "I'll download everything and nag you to death with countdown timer until you update"
The most infuriating thing about that being that if you turn your computer on in the morning from hibernation go make a coffee and get some breakfast, by the time you come back your computer has restarted (because apparently who cares you weren't logged in and your screen was still locked, fuck you we're forcing a restarting and you're losing any unsaved work, bad luck sucker!)
I killed the windows update service permanently it infuriated me so much.
- jpindar 11y agoWhen you say "killed permanently", do you mean more than just disabling the service, and if so, what? I have it disabled but I don't trust Microsoft not to somehow override that.
- dageshi 11y agoJust disabled the service. I do want the option to periodically turn it back on so anything more serious than that isn't on the cards for me.
- yaegers 11y agoI also disabled the service "Windows Update" in services.msc. Interesting thign happened. I stopped the service but left it on "Automatic (Delayed Start)". Came back a while later and the service was magicall restarted. Could have been anticipated by me. So I stopped the service again and set it to "Manual". Came back a while later and, you guessed it, Windows Update service was restarted. So I now set it to "deactivated". That was yesterday. I am really curoous to see if it still comes back to life.