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I Pause updates for 7 days and run the updates on a sunday morning Windows gotta update sometime

by dageshi 2y ago

blueflow 2y ago
How can i do this?
- dageshi 2y ago
  It's an option in windows update (for me at least, Win 10) There's a button called "Pause updates for 7 days" I run windows update on a sunday then hit the button again when it's done. Works pretty well.
danparsonson 2y ago
Windows used to let the user choose when they wanted to update - that they force it to happen now is a situation entirely of their own doing.
- dageshi 2y ago
  Yeah cause people just skipped installs forever. That's the reason. And as I said, you can run it once a week and control when it happens.
  - e3bc54b2 2y ago
    People skipped updates for a reason. Windows updates are slow as fuck, take forever to download, then forever to install, take your CPU, hog your storage and require multiple boots and MUST be finished after started. On everyLinux distro I've used, updates were single command/click at most, downloaded in the background, cleaned up from storage automatically, never used much CPU and rarely 'required' reboot. Yes my Linux distro is updated twice a week and Windows was deleted after being out of ~updates~ use for 6 months, why do you ask?
  - danparsonson 2y ago
    That's also my choice. If I don't service my car every year then no-one comes to take it away from me and do the servicing anyway. And sure, the average person won't make sensible decisions for their own good about updates, so forcing them can be a reasonable default, but it should still be possible to override those settings. It's my computer. As for choosing when to do it, maybe that's possible (although it's not been my experience tbh) but that all falls apart when, for example, an aged relative switches on their computer once a month to do one specific simple task and ends up having to wait two hours while their bargain basement machine grinds to a halt force-updating itself because it's past the update grace period.
diggan 2y ago
> Windows gotta update sometime For some people, sure. But to force it upon people without any way of skipping it? Kind of disrespectful to control people's computer usage like that when we're talking about "personal computers".
- dageshi 2y ago
  People are idiots. They will just continue to skip forever and never update then blame Microsoft when their machine gets pwned because it wasn't updated. You're free of course to install another OS on your "personal computer".
  - diggan 2y ago
    Or, Microsoft could let people chose when to update, so the ones who have to use Windows (like myself) can continue to do so without having to deal with their continued bullshit.

I Pause updates for 7 days and run the updates on a sunday morning Windows gotta update sometime

blueflow 2y ago

How can i do this?

dageshi 2y ago
It's an option in windows update (for me at least, Win 10) There's a button called "Pause updates for 7 days" I run windows update on a sunday then hit the button again when it's done. Works pretty well.

danparsonson 2y ago

Windows used to let the user choose when they wanted to update - that they force it to happen now is a situation entirely of their own doing.

dageshi 2y ago
Yeah cause people just skipped installs forever. That's the reason. And as I said, you can run it once a week and control when it happens.
- e3bc54b2 2y ago
  People skipped updates for a reason. Windows updates are slow as fuck, take forever to download, then forever to install, take your CPU, hog your storage and require multiple boots and MUST be finished after started. On everyLinux distro I've used, updates were single command/click at most, downloaded in the background, cleaned up from storage automatically, never used much CPU and rarely 'required' reboot. Yes my Linux distro is updated twice a week and Windows was deleted after being out of ~updates~ use for 6 months, why do you ask?
- danparsonson 2y ago
  That's also my choice. If I don't service my car every year then no-one comes to take it away from me and do the servicing anyway. And sure, the average person won't make sensible decisions for their own good about updates, so forcing them can be a reasonable default, but it should still be possible to override those settings. It's my computer. As for choosing when to do it, maybe that's possible (although it's not been my experience tbh) but that all falls apart when, for example, an aged relative switches on their computer once a month to do one specific simple task and ends up having to wait two hours while their bargain basement machine grinds to a halt force-updating itself because it's past the update grace period.

diggan 2y ago

> Windows gotta update sometime For some people, sure. But to force it upon people without any way of skipping it? Kind of disrespectful to control people's computer usage like that when we're talking about "personal computers".

dageshi 2y ago
People are idiots. They will just continue to skip forever and never update then blame Microsoft when their machine gets pwned because it wasn't updated. You're free of course to install another OS on your "personal computer".
- diggan 2y ago
  Or, Microsoft could let people chose when to update, so the ones who have to use Windows (like myself) can continue to do so without having to deal with their continued bullshit.