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For those who may be interested: the way to turn this particular trait off in Windows 10 is to mark all of your Internet connections as "metered connections." W

by novia 10y ago

For those who may be interested: the way to turn this particular trait off in Windows 10 is to mark all of your Internet connections as "metered connections." Windows will no longer download updates unless you specifically ask for them, which you can do when you're not in the middle of a big project.

ufo 10y ago
And then they say that Linux is the non user-friendly OS...
blibble 10y ago
this loophole is being "fixed", windows will soon download "essential" updates automatically over metered connections regardless http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-pushing-essential-updates-over-metered-connections http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-pushing...
- novia 10y ago
  perhaps that update will never get downloaded onto my machine
  - Silhouette 10y ago
    How long will you go without security updates to achieve that? The game was over as soon as Microsoft decided not to allow some users to install individual patches any more and to bundle security fixes with other changes as part of the same update mechanism.
    - novia 10y ago
      Well, I did a little bit of research and it looks like the policy Microsoft had in place was already allowing for emergency updates to be installed over metered connections, and this change in wording may just be a clarification of the existing policy. I'm going to hold off on updating until there is more information out there about what the change in wording actually implies. If things are bad enough I might change to a new OS to work on my projects. Automatic updates are just so distracting and frustrating most of the time. Like most humans, I just want control over my environment.
digi_owl 10y ago
I "love" how MS removed/disabled group policy on the Windows 10 variants involved in all this...
dragonwriter 10y ago
Unless they've changed something, wired connections cannot be set as metered (even though in practice most of them are either metered or capped); this can only be done for wireless (both WiFi and mobile.)

by novia 10y ago

ufo 10y ago

And then they say that Linux is the non user-friendly OS...

blibble 10y ago

this loophole is being "fixed", windows will soon download "essential" updates automatically over metered connections regardless http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-pushing-essential-updates-over-metered-connections http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-pushing...

novia 10y ago
perhaps that update will never get downloaded onto my machine
- Silhouette 10y ago
  How long will you go without security updates to achieve that? The game was over as soon as Microsoft decided not to allow some users to install individual patches any more and to bundle security fixes with other changes as part of the same update mechanism.
  - novia 10y ago
    Well, I did a little bit of research and it looks like the policy Microsoft had in place was already allowing for emergency updates to be installed over metered connections, and this change in wording may just be a clarification of the existing policy. I'm going to hold off on updating until there is more information out there about what the change in wording actually implies. If things are bad enough I might change to a new OS to work on my projects. Automatic updates are just so distracting and frustrating most of the time. Like most humans, I just want control over my environment.

digi_owl 10y ago

I "love" how MS removed/disabled group policy on the Windows 10 variants involved in all this...

dragonwriter 10y ago

Unless they've changed something, wired connections cannot be set as metered (even though in practice most of them are either metered or capped); this can only be done for wireless (both WiFi and mobile.)