W10 Update & it's annoyingness. Why?

[ArmatageShanks]

Windows 10's updates seem to make a point of being very annoying with each major update by resetting all my preferences, re activating cortana , setting Edge as the default browser, enabling services I have specifically disabled, moving personal files around and deleting their metadata etc etc

I even notice that it unpins and removes shortcuts from the desktop for Chrome & firefox and for reasons best known to itself for a couple of days after the update once the PC is idling for a while it'll be busy with something that utilizes the OS drive as well as storage drives that are normally off due to no activity and the power settings, it does this for hours at a time. As soon as the system wakes the disk activity goes away with some host processes still shutting down , people suggest it's analytics doing its thing but I don't know.

What I would like to understand is why are they still doing things (like mentioned above and loads of other nonsense) they know are pissing of the users? If it was limited to power users sure that would be fine but it's across the whole user base with drastic and sometimes costly issues for enterprise customers.

Do they just not give a ****? Are they assuming they can enrich themselves sufficiently with all this personal data that they are harvesting?

 

[rwenzori]

They're a huge pain in the arse. On one machine it has tried six times to download and install one of the recent cumulative updates - fails each time yet the ruddy thing keeps trying. Then the unexpected middle-of-the-night restarts. F-off man, really.

 

[supersunbird]

Can't say I have had any of those issues, at home or on the corporate computers.

Only issue is the unexpected restart outside of the 18 active hours that sometimes happens.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

They're a huge pain in the arse. On one machine it has tried six times to download and install one of the recent cumulative updates - fails each time yet the ruddy thing keeps trying. Then the unexpected middle-of-the-night restarts. F-off man, really.

The worst is when you are busy with something at work and it asks you to restart to complete the update, so you keep declining because you are working, then it waits for you to start on a urgent & late project then it forces you to restart so you have to sit at your desk for an hour with your finger up your arse whilst it updates.

 

[supersunbird]

The worst is when you are busy with something at work and it asks you to restart to complete the update, so you keep declining because you are working, then it waits for you to start on a urgent & late project then it forces you to restart so you have to sit at your desk for an hour with your finger up your arse whilst it updates.

That's when you change the restart period to 00:00 to 06:00

 

[Rickster]

I wish there was a setting to disable feature updates, I have no issue with security updates.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

That's when you change the restart period to 00:00 to 06:00

jip, shouda, woulda, coulda

 

[grok]

It's Microsoft, when have they ever not been annoying?

 

[Rickster]

It's Microsoft, when have they ever not been annoying?

Lets just say windows XP was perfect and windows 7 was just a modern version of XP.

 

[RyanPCMR]

After reading this thread I must say that you guys need to configure Windows 10 updates properly if you only want to defer upgrades for it. Also, this does not help on Windows 10 Home but from Windows 10 Pro and upwards. Please follow these instructions to defer upgrades for Windows 10 Pro, Education or Enterprise versions: How to delay the Windows 10 April 2018 Update in 3 steps

 

[Hood3dvillain]

I also find the updates annoying, but I try to keep my main pc updated as much as possible. But also some time ago I found a little gem of an app.

WUB - Windows Update Blocker.

If you dont want updates, just run it and sit back and enjoy the build you are on.

 

[sajunky]

Pro version can ignore user settings despite of group policy settings too.

 

[CT_Biker]

Pro version can ignore user settings despite of group policy settings too.

Noticed this too with my new laptop. Annoyance I wish I never needed to deal with.

 

[The_Librarian]

BillG loves you all and want you to keep your compootas updated all the time

 

[Solarion]

I wish there was a setting to disable feature updates, I have no issue with security updates.

Made threads about it. Researched it to death. Did everything.

Then I got mad and created my own update killer. Have never had a problem since.

Every 10 seconds it checks if windows 10 update is running. If so it kills the service and disables it. As you have no doubt already discovered Windows 10 update keeps resurrecting itself, this app just puts it straight back in the ground over and over. My bandwidth doesn't even flinch anymore.

 

[RyanPCMR]

LOL!

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Made threads about it. Researched it to death. Did everything.

Then I got mad and created my own update killer. Have never had a problem since.

Every 10 seconds it checks if windows 10 update is running. If so it kills the service and disables it. As you have no doubt already discovered Windows 10 update keeps resurrecting itself, this app just puts it straight back in the ground over and over. My bandwidth doesn't even flinch anymore.

This I like, well done

 

[Rickster]

I had to.

 

[TedLasso]

Made threads about it. Researched it to death. Did everything.

Then I got mad and created my own update killer. Have never had a problem since.

Every 10 seconds it checks if windows 10 update is running. If so it kills the service and disables it. As you have no doubt already discovered Windows 10 update keeps resurrecting itself, this app just puts it straight back in the ground over and over. My bandwidth doesn't even flinch anymore.

Wow.. not a Dev, but I would have built a scheduled task to net stop 'windows update' every minute. I think it would work .. not sure as I have never used a home version of win10

 

[Rickster]

Made threads about it. Researched it to death. Did everything.

Then I got mad and created my own update killer. Have never had a problem since.

Every 10 seconds it checks if windows 10 update is running. If so it kills the service and disables it. As you have no doubt already discovered Windows 10 update keeps resurrecting itself, this app just puts it straight back in the ground over and over. My bandwidth doesn't even flinch anymore.

I wonder what would happen if you made the update folder to read only?

c:\Windows\Software distribution\downloads.