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Windows 10 Home used to have mandatory automatic updates: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-updates-to-be-compulsory-for-home-us

Windows 10 Home used to have mandatory automatic updates: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-updates-to-be-compulsory-for-home-users/2a698ad2-9dd6-4b1d-97c1-222c55c23498 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window... The situation improved after the May 2019 update, but the updates will still be automatically installed after you pause them every 7 days for a maximum of 5 times (35 days total): https://www.howtogeek.com/410183/microsoft-abandons-windows-10s-forced-updates/ https://www.howtogeek.com/410183/microsoft-abandons-windows-...

NDizzle 5y ago
Automatically installed, yet no automatic reboots. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used the Home edition, but I’ve never had Windows force a reboot on me. Sometimes my laptop won’t wake up out of sleep mode and it reboots, but that’s about every 2 months. The last time I was really angry about Windows was with Window Me. The entire TCP stack took a dive which I couldn’t recover from. Even replaced the NIC. Replaced that with Windows 2000 and haven’t had a serious issue since.
- deadbunny 5y ago
  Warning, loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJhdkIZ8yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJhdkIZ8yc
- washadjeffmad 5y ago
  Staged Windows updates are a pretty common source of behaviors that do require reboots. Everything from HID devices not responding, task manager and utilities like Settings not opening, device drivers left in an unstable state, and more can happen. To their credit, it does usually fail in a way that allows users to close applications before they're compelled to restart.
- Grumbledour 5y ago
  Windows 10 pro also did that. Not sure if it still does, because after it happened to me once I waded into the policy editor and disabled all that shite. However, there was at least one forced update that happened to me after that. No idea why. But windows is also weird. People always talk about ads or having candy crush forcefully reinstalled after updates. I strongly suspect these things vary by region, because those two at least I never noticed.
anaganisk 5y ago
There is a difference between used to and straight away saying, mandatory reboots. Implies it still does.

NDizzle 5y ago

Automatically installed, yet no automatic reboots. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used the Home edition, but I’ve never had Windows force a reboot on me. Sometimes my laptop won’t wake up out of sleep mode and it reboots, but that’s about every 2 months. The last time I was really angry about Windows was with Window Me. The entire TCP stack took a dive which I couldn’t recover from. Even replaced the NIC. Replaced that with Windows 2000 and haven’t had a serious issue since.

deadbunny 5y ago
Warning, loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJhdkIZ8yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJhdkIZ8yc
washadjeffmad 5y ago
Staged Windows updates are a pretty common source of behaviors that do require reboots. Everything from HID devices not responding, task manager and utilities like Settings not opening, device drivers left in an unstable state, and more can happen. To their credit, it does usually fail in a way that allows users to close applications before they're compelled to restart.
Grumbledour 5y ago
Windows 10 pro also did that. Not sure if it still does, because after it happened to me once I waded into the policy editor and disabled all that shite. However, there was at least one forced update that happened to me after that. No idea why. But windows is also weird. People always talk about ads or having candy crush forcefully reinstalled after updates. I strongly suspect these things vary by region, because those two at least I never noticed.

anaganisk 5y ago

There is a difference between used to and straight away saying, mandatory reboots. Implies it still does.