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You can tinker a lot with windows but your changes will likely be undone with one of the next few updates.
by nopenopenopeno 5y ago
You can tinker a lot with windows but your changes will likely be undone with one of the next few updates.
- Kuinox 5y agoExcept the edge redirect debacle, windows update at worse will reset a few registry entries. It can't "just undone" all your changes. It doesn't work like this. And there is official docs thats explain how to do it properly: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-wu-settings https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
- majkinetor 5y agoThere are few thing that IT WILL change, like if I disable windows update, it will reenable it, the same goes with Defender. But those are sporadic cases and solvable. It not like it never happened on Linux side either, contrary. You can rolling release your stuff just up to the point, and then good luck.
- Kuinox 5y agoYou likely changed the wrong settings, like disabled it in the windows services, check the comment you reply to, I edited it with the official windows documentation explaining you how to disable windows update.
- majkinetor 5y agoImage creation tool? Don't be ridiculous now after you said so many good things... Automatic updates via single click/CLI call to turn it off is the only solution. You don't need to know about "Windows distributions" to turn off updates, that's ridiculous and insulting. I have script but need to change it from time to time. OOSU10 also does it for now. Some hosts tinkering also...
- Kuinox 5y agoI said the comment replied to, this is the doc I linked: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-wu-settings https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
- majkinetor 5y agoOh, sorry, my bad for the link. It says to set on this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU I already have there NoAutoUpdate = 1 now (looks like ShutUp10 that I use set that, and I get error if I want to update, after restarting). Not sure if I hallucinate or so, but this is so trivial to set that it doesn't explain why entire Internet has a problem. I set this up after initial Windows install as concept of automatic update without your say in it (what and when) is nonsense, but Windows still managed to skip it somehow later... Actually, I checked my notes now, and found 5 different ways to do it since obviously people had problems with "universal solutions": task scheduler, hosts, mettered connection, registry, debloater scripts etc.
- InvaderFizz 5y agoThere is only one way to consistently prevent Windows Update from rebooting your machine. You must use regedit to override the process execution for the executable that triggers the reboot. You can find instructions here[0]. This method has been flawless for three years, through multiple feature updates. No longer to my long-running processes get interrupted. It does not disable updates, just makes the reboots be on your schedule. 0: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10-after-installing-updates/ https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10...
- Kuinox 5y agoDid you opened the docs I linked before making such claim ?
- majkinetor 5y agoYou can prevent Windows updating on its own.