KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

The old timers in Windows have never allowed WU to do its thing automatically.

I guess I must be an old timer <g>.

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I am pretty certain, based on experience, that if you set the setting to NEVER, WU will not do anything unless you tell it to.  So, you can deselect those particular updates, install what you want, and close WU.  It will not do anything after that unless you tell it to.

The old timers in Windows have never allowed WU to do its thing automatically.  NEVER is the only safe setting if you are to maintain control of your own investment.

Art

Have you heard of the legal term "Lies of Omission"?

No but I can guess. It likely compares to the law in the UK governing misrepresentation. We also have a principle here called caveat emptor.

I can't understand your entrenched views on privacy and choice.

My views are not entrenched. I just do not believe in tilting at windmills. I am not obsessed with privacy because I have nothing to hide. I believe in being honest and open when dealing with others. I have no hidden agenda.

The only aspect involving privacy that irritates, is when others gather information about me in order to bombard me with emails, telephone calls and targeted adverts. These annoy because they interrupt what I am doing at the time.

Unfortunately stopping those engaged in these activities is not easy. Laws restricting such activity are unenforceable if there are insufficient enforcers to handle the scale of the problem and it is so difficult to identify and prove those responsible guilty. Solutions are made more difficult because the problem crosses frontiers. This means it may be a "crime" in one country but not the other.

I have it set to Never, but when I do check for updates I'm notified as to what is available.  Those that sit in my available updates download and install on their own.  There's no escaping it, and no excepting it.  I'm going Linux, will miss a lot of folks on this OS but I've had enough.  I spend more time trying to keep my OS clean than I do using it ... and spending hours each day on forums trying to help like-mind people.  Most people aren't techies and with MS it is the 'spider and fly' game.  They haven't a clue, and I feel sorry for them so I try to help ... but there are too many and I am getting worn out.  I'm unwell and retired and this isn't how I want spend my last days, literally.  - Art

I checked Updates a couple od days ago and my entir Updates History was gon.

Running the automated Windows Update troubleshooter will do that every time!

I had updates set to not download and let me decide but it's obvious that it no longer works.  It's been years since I have let MS update automatically.  Now there's something else to worry about.  I had 2 updates waiting for me to decide last night.  I left my machine running to do a Norton 360 scan and could not wait to seep, so I left it run ... something I have never done before.  When I checked update this afternoon, I found that even those updates have installed.  MS is forcing out Win 7 users who paid for this OS whether they like it or not.  I am spending more time and effort trying to stay clean than it's worth.  I'm looking very hard at adopting Linux.  Frankly, I have done a lot of push-back on this issue, but I've had about all the BS from MS that I can stand.  And to top it off, I have never opted-in for Win 10 at any point.  Where are the lawyers, in Bermuda I suppose.  Where's the ACLU, oh right, I know where ... making life easier for ...  -R