What troubles me is the fact that there is no way to turn off updates and just update when I want it to. Hell, even Android has that. I want to update when I want to, not when MS sees fit to update my operating system.
To be honest, that’s probably because of those “power users” just following online instructions that don’t understand what things do. The ones who then never update, probably because they forget about it, and put everyone else at risk with extremely out of date systems that end up being breached and used in things like botnets. The number of extremely outdated but supported Windows systems in the wild is still way too high to ignore.
You can set your internet connection to be metered, and set it to not download updates over metered connections. Not quite the same, and that may affect some other stuff, but something to look into if you haven’t already. For actual power users, there’s also ways to operate your own WSUS locally for centralized update management, primarily meant for organizations but easy enough to setup in a home lab for those that should be tinkering with that stuff.
Looking in these settings again, it’s been a while since I’ve been in there, it also looks like there’s a specific setting that enables the system to restart immediately, ignoring the active hours setting. I wonder how many of those complaining have that setting enabled? Or have their active hours set weirdly in the first place.
Nah, I just use Windows Update Blocker. It’s way easier than doing WSUS update servers or setting up metered connections.
And I don’t think it’s because systems out there were out of date was the main reason why MS did this. It’s just another tool for control, nothing more… my 2 cents.
What troubles me is the fact that there is no way to turn off updates and just update when I want it to. Hell, even Android has that. I want to update when I want to, not when MS sees fit to update my operating system.
To be honest, that’s probably because of those “power users” just following online instructions that don’t understand what things do. The ones who then never update, probably because they forget about it, and put everyone else at risk with extremely out of date systems that end up being breached and used in things like botnets. The number of extremely outdated but supported Windows systems in the wild is still way too high to ignore.
You can set your internet connection to be metered, and set it to not download updates over metered connections. Not quite the same, and that may affect some other stuff, but something to look into if you haven’t already. For actual power users, there’s also ways to operate your own WSUS locally for centralized update management, primarily meant for organizations but easy enough to setup in a home lab for those that should be tinkering with that stuff.
Looking in these settings again, it’s been a while since I’ve been in there, it also looks like there’s a specific setting that enables the system to restart immediately, ignoring the active hours setting. I wonder how many of those complaining have that setting enabled? Or have their active hours set weirdly in the first place.
Nah, I just use Windows Update Blocker. It’s way easier than doing WSUS update servers or setting up metered connections.
And I don’t think it’s because systems out there were out of date was the main reason why MS did this. It’s just another tool for control, nothing more… my 2 cents.