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Invasive update rebooting has been a thing by default since XP SP2, it however used to be the case the override switch to disable it was less well-hidden. Simi
by ntauthority 10y ago
Invasive update rebooting has been a thing by default since XP SP2, it however used to be the case the override switch to disable it was less well-hidden.
Similarly, by the way, no Windows version had supported custom theming since XP - if you wanted the XP themes back on Vista/7, you were SOL too.
Also, telemetry has been a thing since at least Vista, and any version since (including 10) let you disable most or all of it as a choice during installation.
- vacri 10y agoThe update reboot thing in win7 could at least be continuously postponed for 4 hours at a time, instead of 'now or in 15 minutes, that's it'. I'd also never come back to a update-force-rebooted PC on six years of win7, whereas I have several times in the 11 months I have had win10. Win10 is qualitatively worse in this area, even if the same tickbox exists on both versions. Fair point on the theming, but the telemetry thing is much more pervasive in 10 than in 7.