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
    2018-10-14T21:14:45+00:00

    I also have and had the same problems. I am considering dumping Windows 10 altogether and going back to XP ! Or maybe Linux. Despite a very lengthy telephone call to the service centre (located in India), the problems still arise using up my mobile (expensive) 4G wifi. Like you I use an Aspire Laptop (ES-533).

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-15T00:34:16+00:00

    I also have and had the same problems. I am considering dumping Windows 10 altogether and going back to XP ! Or maybe Linux. Despite a very lengthy telephone call to the service centre (located in India), the problems still arise using up my mobile (expensive) 4G wifi. Like you I use an Aspire Laptop (ES-533).

    Hi, I don't think XP is supported anymore. You could roll back to Windows 8, that's what I'm going to try.

    I too was thinking of Linux, it's quite a bit of work. Manjaro was suggested to me by a computer 'wizz' friend.

    Good luck!

    Brian.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-10-15T01:07:08+00:00

    No XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, but I have all the updates for both Home and Pro. Most, if not all of my programs will work on XP, but not W2K or earlier.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-10-15T11:11:51+00:00

    Ubuntu is a good choice for Linux, but some computers (particularly HP) seem to be locked exclusively to Windows even to the extent of not allowing dual-boot. Support for XP stopped in 2014.

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