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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-01T02:35:20+00:00

    You can nobble it thoroughly, but the mysterious "dmwappushservice" thing might unknobble it for you. (I do this with a script for LTSB, but here's the basics, may include some other things you don't need.)

    1 - knobble some tasks.

    "Maintenance Install"    #UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Policy Install" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Reboot" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Refresh Settings" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Resume On Boot" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Schedule Retry Scan" # UpdateOrchestrator not present??

    "Schedule Scan" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "USO_UxBroker_Display" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "USO_UxBroker_ReadyToReboot" # UpdateOrchestrator Windows Update?

    "Automatic App Update" # Windows Update

    "Scheduled Start" # Windows Update

    "sih" # Windows Update

    "sihboot" # Windows Update - SYSPREP breaks if this is disabled.

    2 - knobble some services

    "BITS" # Background Intelligent Transfer Service (HTTP)

    "DoSvc" # Delivery Optimization

    "wuauserv" # Windows Update

    3 - Use GPEDIT to tell it where to get its updates from:

    Under computer > administrative settings > windows components > windows update

    specify intranet microsoft update service location (usually for WSUS)

    enable this, give it a bad location like http://localhost:8530/ 

    also enable

    do not connect to any windows update internet locations.

    In testing, this never tried to update for over a month running test contents but of course, retail versions might do something stupid.

    In short, UpdateOrchestrator is your enemy.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-14T19:43:36+00:00

    Is there a formal complaint we can make that we were unaware of this and want a refund for the awful windows operating system?? I'm switching to linux because windows 10 is pathetic and I want my money back (my computer is still brand new)!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-04-10T14:44:13+00:00

    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...

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