Is it possible to uninstall the Windows 10 update assistant? When i delete it it just automaticly reinstalls itself when i start the pc again

Anonymous
2017-11-06T15:39:26+00:00

Its soo **** annoying and i just want the <removed> poppup  to disapear. when i try update it just get the wrong code but i cant fix it so i just want to delete the **** assistant permanently.

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DaveM121 933.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2017-11-06T17:48:58+00:00

The Update Assistant in Windows 10 cannot be uninstalled, but you can get rid of it

Click your Start Button, type Task Scheduler and hit enter

In the left Pane, navigate to: Windows - Update Orchestrater

Right Pane double click 'Update Assistant'

Click on Triggers Tab

On each of the triggers ( At login . . . etc.) double click and uncheck 'Enabled'

Under 'Update Assistant, there is another event 'Update Assistant CalendarRun'

Do the same for all triggers on that event

Restart your system, that's It!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-14T18:29:23+00:00

    read: No, it's a zombie virus.  Suck it, victims.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T01:49:29+00:00

    That was supposed to be Amen I'm with you, sorry,

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T01:47:42+00:00

    men I'm with you. Please make the whole thing go away or fix it. I loved what you said about we are the customers in this mess and don't they say the customer is ALWAYS right? Part of me wants to blame HP because they made the computer and sold it with the dumb update 1709, I suppose how were they to know that Microsoft would just let us hang there hopelessly until we had very little brain left. I have thought about just giving this laptop away to some poor soul and buying another one that is already running the mysterious 1709. I'm just afraid my Husband would find out I wasted all that money and then I would be in a living hell. I just hope that someone at MS will take the responsibility and fix this thing. I am just going to try to let it go for awhile (I've already tried that I don't know how many times and then I'm right back at it again). Good Luck everyone and I hope we all will see blue sky's again soon.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-10T23:46:46+00:00

    Okay... I spent about 7 hours chatting with  Microsoft Techs online trying to figure out why my 1709 wouldn't install correctly. It kept trying over and over and over and made my laptop very slow. The last tech finally figured out that my laptop was not compatible with the update. He told me that Dell would be correcting that within two to three weeks. He then remotely did a bunch of things to my laptop to stop the updates from starting until I was ready to update after Dell was finished with whatever they were going to do. So I learn today, from an answer to my post about this on another users question, that Dell has no plans to update drivers for my model. Yet, even after the tech supposedly turned everything off, the windows update assistant was still trying and failing to install the impossible update about every two hours! I finally found this question string. I followed all the suggested steps. It has been about 5 hours. I think DaveM121 may have solved my problem. Her is not my cyber hero.

    HOWEVER... As stated by HavardBjorgo, why should someone for whom an update is not possible have to be abused by constant attempts to install it. Why can't the program be written to terminate all future attempts once it learns that a computer is not compatible?

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