How permanently stop windows 10 force updates

Anonymous
2018-02-25T13:34:58+00:00

I'm using an ACER aspire ES 14 laptop and it's been with me for over a year now with no problems whatsoever. Not until the start of 2018 where out of nowhere, windows 10 wants me to install their updates. Now for how long have I been ignoring those latest updates and seen some of the peoples complaints in recent forums that the newest updates destroys their PC/laptops instead of making it better, I'm kinda scared and also don't have the time to get all of the updates in my laptop. First, it was the windows assistant that was bugging me, where it would just show up and stops me for doing anything else. I tried the following method of going to "Services" and disabling both "Background Intelligence Transfer" and "Windows Update" and restarted my laptop, but of course those didn't work since it will automatically enables themselves again while also installing windows 10 assistant back. So I tried another method I found here that needs me to go to Task Scheduler and do some tweaking here and there,  and what do you know, it worked! At least for 3 weeks... Then a few days ago, I found windows 10 assistant installs itself again, so I had to do the same steps I did before and it worked so far, then the next day where I was expecting it to install itself again. Something new happened, instead of windows 10 assistant, I just received a notification in my Action Center that "We're getting your PC up to date" and I know for sure that it's still a windows update and this is the part that's making me nuts and stressed out since I have no idea how to stop this, I'm all out of options even from searching this on the web. So I really need help from this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-22T13:37:59+00:00

    Well, the MS "MVP" stopped following this thread back in March so there's not much to gain here. And he did tell us all to switch to another operating system so that's what I did (although I'm posting this from a W10 computer I'm fixing; you can probably guess what happened to it). Don't be afraid to try Linux, there's a lot of user-friendly, reliable distros out there and Wine has been developed to a point where you can run pretty much any Windows software apart from DirectX-reliant games. There's no reason for us to accept this level  of "service" and torture ourselves with this utterly broken excuse for an operating system. Time to boycott Windows and companies like HP, who are working with MS to make sure we're all slaves to this garbage. Enough is enough already.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-09-21T01:31:30+00:00

    Thanks, commander dbag. You are not helpful. You are the reason I'm switching to Mac.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-24T03:00:54+00:00

    Well I don't agree with you at all. This statement is totally incorrect:

    "Since the success of an upgrade is directly proportional to the quality of the pre-existing installation"

    The success of an upgrade is entirely dependent upon the quality of the written software and the testing process it went through prior to release.

    In the case of Windows 10 Ver 1803 - it is by far the worse of them all to date.

    I even completely installed from scratch (ie nothing extra, clean HDD) Version 1709 of Windows 10 Pro. Perfect Installation no problems, everything correct. Then allowed the failure of ver 1803 to automatically update. It can't even boot! Even a clean install from scratch (clean HDD) does not even get to the asking to select keyboard, etc.

    So Microsoft in it's pathetic attempt to upgrade have changed the most basic early install environment that worked in 1709 and ruined it for 1803.

    My main PC for work is now back to Windows 7, that works perfectly. And this computer is going to form the start of my transition away from Microsoft to Linux. Windows 10 is proving to be poorly developed and lacks the thorough testing process prior to release. My Microsoft phone is also going to the dump as well. The Windows 10 Mobile updates to that have resulted in the same process of more failures and OS crashes than the very first OS it came with.

    Upgrades should not be mandatory. Everyone, no matter whether it is Home or Pro, should retain the ability to tell Microsoft they don't want an update which causes their PC to fail.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-28T14:05:38+00:00

    If you set your connection to metered then no USB, printer etc etc drivers can install properly, also if you are trying to tweak printers or drivers it doesn't let you. There is an option to allow driver updates but that is very deep in the stupid "user friendly" menus and then allows other updates to happen.

    If you disable windows update and update orchestrator it stops the updates but then you can't use the app shop and again drivers can't be updated.How about Microsoft you keep walking away from the disaster that was win 8 which then slightly improved with the initial win 10 but is now going backwards rapidly again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-28T09:57:17+00:00

    So far the "metered connection" seems to be working for the last 3 days but I wouldn't really expect it to solve the problem this easily. Are there any more ways just in case it pops out again? Would windows stop pushing automatic updates in the future if i keep hindering all the updates?

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