What I did was to uninstall it, reinstall it, uninstall it again and then do a disk cleanup and then manually remove the last remains of the programme directories. It hasn't reappeared since.
Your device needs the latest security updates...big time error.
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Yesterday, I got the notification "Your device needs the latest security updates" and an update window that couldn't be closed, but could be minimized to the tray. It spent hours to reach 100%, so I left it running overnight. I get up this morning, it reappears, does the same thing again...but then "restoring your version of Windows" appears on the restart and now it's downloading again. Is anyone else struggling with this, because it seems seriously bugged and stuck in a viscous cycle.
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Anonymous
2018-01-24T18:24:18+00:00 I managed to use group policy to deactivate all of the Update Assistants in our organization. Now 1703 is coming down through normal Windows Update.
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Anonymous
2018-01-24T11:07:34+00:00 jayakay,
I cannot see any post that you made with instructions on how to disable updates. Can you please briefly explain how to do that here for me?
Thanks.
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2018-01-24T11:00:41+00:00 jayakay,
Thank you. I will look for it.
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Anonymous
2018-01-24T10:48:39+00:00 I posted my method, I believe, on the first page of the thread. It's on one of my earlier posts though.