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You can turn them off you know.
Except Microsoft will randomly decide the updates are critical and force install them anyways. I literally switched to Linux because Microsoft kept force installing an update that would lock up my PC until I reverted to a recovery. I tried everything I could to disable them, disabling updates, delaying updates, marking the network as metered, editing the registry to disable updates, etc. Some of those worked for awhile, but in the end, as long as the PC was connected to the Internet eventually Microsoft would start installing the update again making the computer unusable.
Been on Linux ever since.
This is incorrect. You can turn them off...
You think you can turn them off. Temporarily. They mysteriously turn back on. For no obvious reason. I have literally never in my life been successful at actually permanently disabling Windows Updates. And god knows I have tried. The setting re-enables itself. The disabled service re-enables itself. Some installer quietly turns them back on. You change some unrelated setting and suddenly, there's Windows Update again! There's no escape.
Windows: "Oh, I know you already told me you didn't want important updates, but I just assumed you still wanted critical updates? Okay, okay, I get it, you don't want critical updates either, I hear you..." <3 weeks later> "I've been trying to warn you about this for the last 2 weeks but you've had your notifications turned off, but now I really have to because Microsoft told me this next update is SOOO important that I really need to install it just this once, okay! But really, you should have at least critical updates too. I mean, installing this update requires them anyway, and all the important updates too, so I'll just turn those back on for you to make this whole process easier next time Microsoft has a super-critical-urgent-mega-feature-emergency-update for you, sorry for all this inconvenience!"
Linux is the only solution that has worked.
A routing rule solves it, but you're too Linux to know that.
I tried. Somehow it didn't take. I spent years putting it on hibernate. On Linux now
Fair enough then lol.
I have had them disabled for years. You have to go through the registry. It's cumbersome but it doesn't take long and is permanent.
motherfucker what part of I said did do you not understand? Are YOU a windows update? There's certain ones, and they changed and they eventually unblocked the fucking updates, or you know what, if it wasn't that, the process was so fucking convoluted that I did the wrong ones.
Don't fucking come in here and gaslight people. these fucking things happened. We tried.
I'm not gaslighting. There's a way to do it that's permanent, but if you do it wrong it will revert. I'm speaking from personal experience.
You can delay them, but it will update at the worst time.
No. Supporting the other comments, the most you can do is reschedule them over and over. So you're wasting time just pushing back the dates but you will forget one day and they'll happen when you least expect it.
There is no way to turn them off and that is intent by design. Because Microsoft feels that the user needs their hand held anymore in making decisions based on a new computer they spent hundreds of dollars on, on top of whatever licenses they bothered spending more money on just so they can tell you when you will update. There is no choice, no option. You WILL do it and like it. Because Microsoft.
Most of the annoying updates I've found have been for .NET. Fuck .NET.