![]() I have seen reference in some articles of being able to select the wanted updates to be installed from some sort of a displayed list of available updates, I haven’t seen that since like windows 7 I think. There seems to be no way to tell Windows to “just stop and forget I ever asked.” I tried to stop this from happening by rebooting…didn’t work, just kept coming, by turning off the update service, fine but windows eventually turns it back on and the updates keep coming. Once you do this, your goose is cooked as any pending updates will be downloaded and then installed with no further user action required. Not that long ago after enabling updates but before running wushowhide to hide an update for office, I hit “check for updates”. ![]() I have to enable updates in settings before running wushowhide. With quality/feature updates turned off in settings wushowhide returns no results for pending updates so I can’t hide them. Group Policy set to advise of available downloads but not to download them and certainly not install them automatically. Both feature and quality updates are deferred for at least 30 days. I’ve read extensively on this site and the articles on Computerworld about holding off on patching. ![]() What’s next for MS is unclear, but they’d be completely shortsighted, at this point, to end support for Win 7 in 2020. ![]() Again, Ch100 and Noel know more about this stuff than I, but with this track record of not fixing things, and often times making matters worse, to ultimately really fix this seems to me to be nearly impossible. In any event, we’re deep enough into this to see there is likely no way out for MS and Win 10 now. I think that observation is true, although I didn’t have the problems with Vista others did and I found Win 7 stable from the get-go. ![]() I think it was either Ch100 or Noel, who once commented that, in the past, it has taken a while for a new MS OS to stabilize. More to the point, it seems very clear that, in particular, Win 10 is actually a Rube Goldberg machine, which MS seems to then apply a new Rube Goldberg machine to when the previous Rube Goldberg machine doesn’t work. Well, I’m a life-long Cubs fan, so I am a certified masochist. ![]()
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