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I was discussing with a friend on solutions on how to make your PC being 'never idle'. As he told me, if the PC is never idle, then Win10 won't enforce any upda

I was discussing with a friend on solutions on how to make your PC being 'never idle'. As he told me, if the PC is never idle, then Win10 won't enforce any updates/reboots. I do not know how true is that, but when I suggested he use MouseJiggler [1] he thanked me and told me 'it worked'. It is a stand-alone/portable .exe that 'does exactly what it says on the tin'. I use it to keep away screensavers/screenlocks (on machines I don't 100% control). [1]: https://mouse-jiggler.en.uptodown.com/windows https://mouse-jiggler.en.uptodown.com/windows Edit: I keep away from W10 so I don't know to what extend this would help. I assume it would delay unwanted reboots, but I don't know the W10 update-forcing mechanism, and on the diagram depicted on the article I don't see any 'idling' criteria.

smush 8y ago
A keyboard-based similar tool is Zhorn's Caffeine which puts a pot of coffee in your system tray and presses F24(?) every 15 seconds.
ganomi 8y ago
There is a nice little tool to stop the reboots: https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker It changes the active hours every hour so that you will never be outside of active hours.
- AckSyn 8y ago
  I find this one to be more palatable, and it being powershell exposes the user to the actual commands that update and change the active hours: https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours
- mintplant 8y ago
  Years ago I followed a guide I found online [0] which involves renaming the "Reboot" scheduled task file and creating a folder with the same name in its location, so that the OS fails to re-create the task file. Haven't had an unexpected reboot since. This technique was familiar to me from the Kindle jailbreaking scene, in which creating a directory with a certain path would cause the Kindle's auto-updater to error out when it tried to `rm` what it saw as a preexisting partially-downloaded update file (the Kindle's OS is Linux-based, so the file-delete operation fails on a directory). [0] https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-rebooting-after-installing-updates https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-reboot... (including the "Additional Steps")
- robocat 8y ago
  But when you need to reboot for any other reason (e.g. Windows bugs out), then the update happens, and your have to wait. Shift-shutdown didn't prevent this either. Unexpected updates was a primary reason I am now using Linux full time (rather than part time as previously).
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smush 8y ago

A keyboard-based similar tool is Zhorn's Caffeine which puts a pot of coffee in your system tray and presses F24(?) every 15 seconds.

ganomi 8y ago

There is a nice little tool to stop the reboots: https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker It changes the active hours every hour so that you will never be outside of active hours.

AckSyn 8y ago
I find this one to be more palatable, and it being powershell exposes the user to the actual commands that update and change the active hours: https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours
mintplant 8y ago
Years ago I followed a guide I found online [0] which involves renaming the "Reboot" scheduled task file and creating a folder with the same name in its location, so that the OS fails to re-create the task file. Haven't had an unexpected reboot since. This technique was familiar to me from the Kindle jailbreaking scene, in which creating a directory with a certain path would cause the Kindle's auto-updater to error out when it tried to `rm` what it saw as a preexisting partially-downloaded update file (the Kindle's OS is Linux-based, so the file-delete operation fails on a directory). [0] https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-rebooting-after-installing-updates https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-reboot... (including the "Additional Steps")
robocat 8y ago
But when you need to reboot for any other reason (e.g. Windows bugs out), then the update happens, and your have to wait. Shift-shutdown didn't prevent this either. Unexpected updates was a primary reason I am now using Linux full time (rather than part time as previously).

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