Windows Doesn't Automatically Update

My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795. I don't use it
often, maybe a few times a week, but it's on 24x7, and set to auto
update. I don't think I could stop the updating anyway.

But, every time I check the update status, it says last updated 'many
many days ago, you are up to date'. Today is 5/29 and it says last
updated 5/14, and up to date. If I press check for updates, it brings
down three updates, one a windows 10 update, another a windows defender
update, and another an Intel update.

I thought it would always just update by itself without any interaction
by me.

anon wrote:
My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795. I don't use it
often, maybe a few times a week, but it's on 24x7, and set to auto
update. I don't think I could stop the updating anyway.

But, every time I check the update status, it says last updated 'many
many days ago, you are up to date'. Today is 5/29 and it says last
updated 5/14, and up to date. If I press check for updates, it brings
down three updates, one a windows 10 update, another a windows defender
update, and another an Intel update.

I thought it would always just update by itself without any interaction
by me.


Patch Tuesday is a major patch date. That's probably 5/14, without
me looking at a calendar.

Clicking the "Update Windows" button makes you a "Seeker".
The update policy is more aggressive for seekers.

There is some baloney about "Hours of Use". At one
time, the concept was, you defined your hours when you
wanted to use the machine, and the other hours would
somehow be for maintenance (a maintenance window). But
it's never worked that way, and attempts to "automatically
figure out when you use the computer", lead to the maintenance
window being set to collide with your usage of the
computer (I think they were testing that on the Insider
at some point).

There are various knobs and levers to "delay" updates or upgrades,
but not to stop them forever. It's a kind of "sham control".
Kinda like placing a steering wheel in a self driving car,
so the person sitting in there has something to twiddle while
the car drives itself.

Updates can show up at any time, and rest assured, the
system checks in often enough, it's not going to miss
something really important.

And even when you click a button on that OS, it has
a mind of its own. Part of my day, my downloads don't
count towards my Internet cap. And the Insider Edition,
always starts doing crap to push the downloads into the
"pay for bandwidth" part of the day. There is a perverse
relationship between clicking buttons and when the
OS "gets around to doing stuff". Would twiddling your
Hours Of Use help ? I tested that on the Fisher Price Busy Box
and the result was, my dinner still arrived at the same time.

("Hours of Use" is the spinner on the upper right, while the
"Check For Updates" is the blue button on the lower left.
Any saliva left on the controls is an autonomic function
I cannot control.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/c...rice_busy_box/

Paul

On 30/05/2019 00:24, anon wrote:


I thought it would always just update by itself without any
interaction by me.


Correct. Windows 10 will update without your interaction. However, it
won't do anything if your SoftwareDistribution folder is corrupted. You
can recreate this folder by logging in as Administrator and then
right-Click on the Taskbar and choose Task Manager (this is 3rd item
from bottom). then click on the two items I have high-Lighted in this
pictu

[ alt-no ] https://i.imgur.com/gMPnTqf.png

From the Services, you need to browse for Windows Update by scrolling
down the list in the Services panel. Right-Click on it and choose
Stop. this will stop the service temporarily. Then go to the Windows
folder and rename a folder called SoftwareDistribution. Please note you
are only renaming the folder so nothing is lost or destroyed. Now
restart the machine and voila, windows will start looking for the
updates for you and also recreate the folder you have just renamed.
Once the update is done, the renamed folder can then be deleted.

Good muck.

Chelsea 4 - 1 Arsenal

Saturday is the big one when my Team (Liverpool) plays Tottenham.






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anon schreef op 30-05-2019
in :
My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795. I don't use it
often, maybe a few times a week, but it's on 24x7, and set to auto
update. I don't think I could stop the updating anyway.

But, every time I check the update status, it says last updated 'many
many days ago, you are up to date'. Today is 5/29 and it says last
updated 5/14, and up to date. If I press check for updates, it
brings down three updates, one a windows 10 update, another a windows
defender update, and another an Intel update.

I thought it would always just update by itself without any
interaction by me.

Some cleaning helps always, the folowing steps can be executed without
any harm:

1) Flush DNS Cache
Step 1: Type "cmd" without quotes in search box.
Step 2: Right click on cmd(command prompt), and then click on "Run as
Administrator."
Step 3: Now, Type command "ipconfig /flushdns" without quotes.
Step 4: Hit "Enter" on the Keyboard.
Close box, open webbrowser (to auto load new extra DNS servers), close
bowser.

2) Free up space with Storage sense
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...up-drive-space
Select all
First time is takes often a long time and likely it gets never to the
end of te proces.
After 15 minutes, Reboot PC
again: Free up space with Storage sense
Now the proces works normal.

3) Go into c:\Windows\Temp
Select all files, delete all files, accepting etc. (if posible)

4) set the option show hidden files on
Go to c:\users\accountname\Appdata\Temp
Select all files, delete all files, accepting etc. (if posible)

Reboot PC
Run the update button.
After the last update reboot anyway and log in.
After login win10 can resume the (rest) update proces for 5 minutes
underneath.

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MdW.

On 30/05/2019 01.46, Paul wrote:



Patch Tuesday is a major patch date. That's probably 5/14, without
me looking at a calendar.

Clicking the "Update Windows" button makes you a "Seeker".
The update policy is more aggressive for seekers.

:-(

That's bad for people like me, that power up Windows few times per month
(or even none, in some machines). So when I power up I tell it to update
with the intention of getting it done fast, and then do my business. It
is not my intention to get "beta" updates.

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Cheers, Carlos.

On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:24:14 -0700, anon wrote:

My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795.

I am running Windows 10 Pro, version 1903 (OS Build 18362.145).

It looks to me like you are about 1 year out of date !!

If that is so, then you may be missing some updates that are
prerequisites to installing the latest set of updates which would then
bring your PC up to version 1903.


I don't use it
often, maybe a few times a week, but it's on 24x7, and set to auto
update. I don't think I could stop the updating anyway.

But, every time I check the update status, it says last updated 'many
many days ago, you are up to date'. Today is 5/29 and it says last
updated 5/14, and up to date. If I press check for updates, it brings
down three updates, one a windows 10 update, another a windows defender
update, and another an Intel update.

I thought it would always just update by itself without any interaction
by me.

Monty wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:24:14 -0700, anon wrote:

My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795.

I am running Windows 10 Pro, version 1903 (OS Build 18362.145).

It looks to me like you are about 1 year out of date !!

If that is so, then you may be missing some updates that are
prerequisites to installing the latest set of updates which would then
bring your PC up to version 1903.

Well, the sad part is, it was supposed to be aggressively
pursuing updates for itself.

Yet, the users find themselves in all sorts of messes.

What to do ? Help people one at a time, offer them a DVD to use, and so on ?

It's not really possible to read a single indicator,
and get an idea as to what went wrong.

Some keep spreading the idea that "your fate is
deserved", "your hardware stinks and is too old".
I see no evidence this is true. I see some hardware
is blocked - for example, a certain Intel chip is using
third-party GPU hardware (maybe an IP block was purchased
to make a GPU and that company only provided one set
of drivers to go with them). But other than the extremely
rare things like that Intel flop, I think even if
the next OS version has to revert to the Microsoft Basic
Display Adapter, you should still be able to get the OS
to install.

https://www.tenforums.com/installati...09-1903-a.html

You have ten days to "revert" the OS, if it doesn't look
good or you're dissatisfied with the result. Although
a backup could be a faster way to restore things to where you
were previously.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Paul

On 01/06/2019 03.48, Monty wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:24:14 -0700, anon wrote:

My pc has Windows 10 home, version 1803 17134.795.

I am running Windows 10 Pro, version 1903 (OS Build 18362.145).

It looks to me like you are about 1 year out of date !!

I saw that happen with W7.

The machine would do the update, fail, and revert, automatically, and
would try again another time. On next boot. As the machine was not
frequently used, I noticed the problem a year later, and needed manual
action to get the update done.

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Cheers, Carlos.