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Their practices for downloading updates in Windows 10 itself are not much better. I tried following all the instructions to disable automatic updates on my Wind
by bluecalm 10y ago
Their practices for downloading updates in Windows 10 itself are not much better. I tried following all the instructions to disable automatic updates on my Windows 10 pro laptop and still they got me with 20 minutes update at the time I needed my computer urgently. Windows behaves like malware these days and it's very sad to see.
- djsumdog 10y agoWhy are you disabling updates in Windows 10? I meant you're already on it. Updates are the most valuable security defense (next to never using anti-virus as it's a massive attack vector).
- ionised 10y agoBecause Windows updates break things sometimes. In fact they do so fairly frequently.
- dingo_bat 10y agoNo they don't. This is bulshit.
- bluecalm 10y agoI just don't want them to be automatic. I want to have control over time they are installed so I can, you know, have my computer available when it's needed and do maintenance when it's not needed. Apparently Windows 10 randomly resets the update settings though so it's very hard to avoid surprises. This is just user hostile behavior in my book.
- noxToken 10y agoBecause I don't want to have something running full screen only to have the update window quietly popup in the background to auto-shutdown my system in 10 minutes. Because I don't want to sit around for 10 minutes waiting for updates to install before I can pack up my laptop. Because I don't want to arrive somewhere ready to work/play only to have an additional 10 minutes and 2 restarts tacked on to my boot time. Because I don't want to have random lag spikes nor frame drops in games as my system decides that now is the perfect time to download an update. Disabling automatic updates isn't stupid if you're willing to manage them in a sane manner.