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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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T00:34:57+00:00

    The only way to stop the updates is to disconnect from the Internet so the system can't receive them (this makes Windows 10 work the same as iPad, iPhone, tablets, Xbox, PlayStation, and other consumer electronic devices).  This is why Windows 10 is a continuous service, not a one-time product.  If you don't agree to the updates, you actually aren't legally allowed to use the system. You don't own Windows, you license the temporary restricted rights to use it. Those are the license terms of contract, and updates are required.  Your only alternative is to use another product instead.

    We can help you solve any problem you have at all to get your system working properly, but there's no "off switch" for updates, no matter what you do.

    Windows is so **** that it won't even let me choose when i can update. I just got an update which only gave me 30 minutes to save everything so it can restart itself and update. 

     And now, at the moment I have a audio render going on and it usually takes a lot longer sometimes even hours to do so. 

    What kind of stupid assumption is that? As if all works can be finished and wrapped up within 30 minutes. Its not like i can possibly speed up the processing and make it render faster. 

    My work is based on audio and DAWs and the last time i updated windows 10 i coudnt even run my Digital Audio Workstation, let alone create any music in it.

    Something in the update messed up my DAW. In fact, the update was so bad that my buisiness got delayed by an entire day because i had to figure out how to go back a version and reinstall the older build.

    What i dont understand is to why windows wont just give an option to do it once a year or something and just keep forcing it down our throats.. it doesnt even feel like they're helping me with these updates. It feels more like being at gunpoint and forcefully updating itself whether you like it or not. I guess i'll just move on to apple products now because i am almost done with windows!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T20:54:02+00:00

    Finally found something that kills Windows Update forever and its not so difficult to do,

    After stopping wuaserv and bits services

    Look for C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and delete all of its contents, then remove ALL permissions to that directory, to do this you'll need to disable permission inheritance, then remove ALL permissions and the Virus called "Windows update" Will never be able to start again, I've done this to my 2 computers and has worked perfectly, no more forced updates, no more popups, no more bandwidth and disk IO wasting, no more forced reboots

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T21:28:07+00:00

    Thanks very much for that.

    But in complete desperation I purchased a new PC.

    Thanks again

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