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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 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?
That would be incorrect. If you pay for Windows 7 or 8.1, you can stay on it.
My best advice, would be to put the installation files on a USB stick, and directly install the newest available version possible.
If it was easily that possible, I would've done that by now. Since I bought my system which is already pre installed windows 10 in it. Though I saw forums and discussion that even Windows 7 and 8 have some problem where they're forced to upgrade to 10. Is this actually true though?
Roll back to windows 7 everybody, it is a sure fire way to stop windows 10 :)
The "Cmdr" is completely right. The updates are part of the operating system. If you don't want the updates, you don't want Windows 10.
Because updates are an integral part of Windows 10, Microsoft provides no way to prevent them. With the Professional edition you can delay updates, for quite a long time, but you can't stop them permanently.
You can, of course, stop updates from arriving at your computer by breaking Windows 10. That will work, but interfering with Windows' normal operation has consequences.
In past, several years would pass between new versions of Windows. With Windows 10, there are two new versions every year (in spring and fall.) Since the success of an upgrade is directly proportional to the quality of the pre-existing installation, there's more pressure on users to operate their computers correctly. In earlier versions you could get away with configuration mistakes for years (don't ask how I know) as long as you didn't upgrade to a new version of Windows, which anticipates a supported configuration.
