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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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Money for USB key - an 8GB USB key is under $5 USD at Walmart, cheaper elsewhere.
9 times in 2 months - what the heck is breaking it? Surely you've identified what the serious issue is by this point. Or please work with me. That's clearly not normal.
Yes agreed but images take valuable disk space or monry for usb keys.
I've had to reset my new 2 month old lalapt 9 times now.
That's annoying time wasted, app/software to be reinstalled whilst also trying to do work on it.
Give the people the option 'be it on their head' to stop automatic download and manually update if they feel the need, without reducing device driver setups etc. Maybe even a gentle monthly reminder saying they are in manual update mode if it makes Microsoft lawyers warm and fuzzy inside they can't be sued.
While the MVPs have a point they also need to listen to people's complaints more sympathetically.
I am sympathetic. These things usually go well, for hundreds of millions upon millions of PCs. When you have a billion users, even a "once in a million" problem happens 1000 times a day. And honestly, they probably can't ever hope to achieve such high odds. These aren't Macs where they all have identical hardware/drivers in a uniform fleet. This is relying on a great stack of conditions, from OEM to now (with the recent Spectre/Meltdown fiasco) you antivirus claiming (by reg key) they are ready to support the security mitigations.
At the end of it, I want to get someone from "I can't use my computer at all" to "Good, it works perfectly" as fast as possible. A lot of times, that means grabbing a spare USB "thumb drive stick" and installing the latest version (roughly 20 minutes) and your favorite software (hour or two, less for most consumers). Is it a pain in the neck? Sure. But it takes a lot less time than spending days/weeks struggling with great difficulty, and has great benefits to boot.
And there's a tons of ways to achieve this, but it really helps to use something like Windows File History, Carbonite, OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc. Because now I can hit "factory reset" on my Surface, wait 8 minutes, login, and I'm back to a fully-restored system but without losing a single file/preference/bookmark/etc. Sure that means I need to reinstall 3 or 4 things, but in less time than a single lunchbreak I (and anyone) should always be able to either factory-reset their PC or even migrate to an entire new one. Businesses have been doing this for decades: you can just buy a new PC or tell an employee to sit down at a new one in another building, but all their preferences/files/programs are already there. Your computer is not a special snowflake these days, you aren't tied to it, and you don't need to spend days/weeks trying to fix an issue when a near-immediate resolution exists. I agree you shouldn't have to do it, but if you live in such a way that you are prepared for it, much like insurance, it sure helps.
I and thousands of other MVPs are flying to Seattle this coming Sunday and Monday to spend a week at Microsoft - we are your advocates. And I'm in no way suggesting you should always jump to a reset as a solution (that'd be ridiculous!), but I want to get someone from "broken" to "perfectly fixed" (and even better, "fully updated") in a few hours, not days or weeks or months (and without spending a penny, no one should ever have to pay to fix their PC).
I don't think the MVPs understand the issue. Updates often disable the computer. My wife's Surface tried to do the creator's update a few days ago and would no longer connect to the internet. The Surface firmware was disabled by the update along with the wifi adapter - I checked in device manager. The only thing that worked was a complete reinstall and even then it took three tries of updating the reinstall. The first two times updating the reinstall - which took hours - it got to 99% and then said "something happened" and rolled everything back. And yes I used the media creation download. That was useless. These answers simply ignore the reality that updates often are HARMFUL to a perfectly working computer. They are like flu shots that - while good for most people - cause serious allergic reactions for others. To say that not updating puts people at risk is to ignore the fact that updating can do the same. It may only be a small percentage of people it affects but it is a real problem. The only solution for my wifes Surface was to use the Win 10 install from another computer - I save these things - and then let it spend 3 hours reupdating all over again. I spent the better part of two days fixing this. Most people don't have that kind of time or expertise - I've been doing this stuff since DOS 3. I've done countless clean OS installs etc... While the MVPs have a point they also need to listen to people's complaints more sympathetically. Updating is NOT a painless process. What users need to know
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.
