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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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So now even after the not so ideal trick to stop windows updating by disabling Update Orchestrator and windows update services which usually stop any downloads but annoyingly affected driver/usb setups, windows can now re-enable those services when it wants too.... Thats made this issue even worse now!
Back to every other day rolling back or reinstalling from scratch ... what a waste of time...
Ok sorry if I misunderstood,could you ask the millions that have got it working.How ?.
In particular if using version 1703.
Then we can tell the rest of the world.
Thank you in advance Adrian
The 1709 update hasn't failed for most people. Many sure, but there's 800 million people using it already without a problem.
They aren't releasing a new update "in response to 1709" or as a reaction. The next update, 1803, has been being planned for years now.
1709 means Update for September of 2017
1803 means Update March of 2018 (coming in a few weeks
There will be another big update in 1809, and again in 1903. Every 6 months.
Now awaiting another update, that will fail again . I think Microsoft don't understand either, not all countries, states, territories, counties have unlimited Internet and bandwidth. I'm in a county that doesn't have great bandwidth, so say I'm listening to some music as soon as an update starts the music starts buffering. Luckily I have 'unlimited' data or else it would get chewed up nicely.
1703 means March of the Year 2017. You are putting yourself at serious risk, just do yourself a favor and do a Google search of how many security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the past year. And no, the metered connection will not always work for you, eventually the update will be forced to install as usual.
