Microsoft's decision to push out updates to non-enterprise Windows 10 without user intervention or even notification has been a bit of a hot topic recently. While those of us who have been supporting machines for a while have all seen a bad Windows update or 10 which render machines unusable, however we have also seen machines over 100 updates behind that are completely riddled with malware, trojans and other nasties which would have been blocked if those updates had been applied.
Whichever side of that debate you fall on, thanks to the nosy reporters at The Register you now can have a choice. They've posted a link to the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package in this recent article, a tool from Microsoft which would allow you to hide certain updates before they were installed and ensure that they are not installed in the future. Patch Tuesday is gone but there will still be people keeping track of which updates are released so that if you encounter an issue you can roll back and hide that update. Of course, that assumes you enabled System Restore, which is has been disabled by default in Windows 10.
lifted from securityaffairs.co
"MICROSOFT HAS QUIETLY released a tool to stop Windows 10 downloading and installing everything it finds in Windows Update."
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Either Microsoft are going to
Either Microsoft are going to be a lot more careful with their patches in the future so that they don’t break the worlds computers or I predict a future where they destroy their primary product as people flee to anything and everything else.
They simply aren’t giving themselves an option if they are going to force updates on everyone.
If you can’t control the
If you can’t control the patches on a machine, benchmarking of systems is going to get really problematic. It will be nearly impossible to do single variable change types of testing–changing just the video card and nothing else for example. Especially long term–like a certain recent CPU test which looked at a lot of different CPUs. No windows updates for 6 months? Good luck with that.
COMMENCE WINDOWS
COMMENCE WINDOWS B*TCHING!!!!!!
With all the borking, past
With all the borking, past and present, with M$ patches, expect there to be even more bitching. Even the new .net update has some hidden killer bug that does not show up in the debugger, but once the code is compiled for release without the debugger code, the methods and Data that the method calls are supposed to have passed to them are not passed properly back to the callers(data borking).
I have intentionally not installed even the previous .net framework updates from M$, as they have App store code baked into their frameworks. Widows 7, is pure heaven compared to having “security patches” forced down your throat that have nothing to do with security(?)! I usually install the security patches after researching them just to make sure I do not suffer any borking, and so do lots of other people. This forced updating will not invite windows 7 users to switch to 10, that and all the usual TIFKAM renaming of the renamed just to obfuscate things in M$’s favor, that phone runtime will not pass onto my hardware!
Lots of other very interesting stories about M$’s past product borkings of stockholder value over the years, mostly through the M$ acquisition of death, but some internal Zuned to failure mistakes Surface also. How’s that Nokia burning platform acquisition working out for you M$!