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How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of
disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. -- Do, as a concession to my poor wits, Lord Darlington, just explain to me what you really mean. I think I had better not, Duchess. Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:11:35 +0000, Peter Percival
wrote: How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. That info is all over the net. Try a search. KenW |
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Peter Percival wrote:
How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. The conventional wisdom is to use GPEDIT and there are various policies in there (for Pro+). For example, you can delay updates, by switching from CB stream to CBB stream. I think the GPEDIT policy where you set Windows Update with a number between 0..4, that doesn't work any more. ******* But I like the approach someone uses here. https://superuser.com/questions/1058...-in-windows-10 Delete wuaueng.dll, which is the wuauserv service To do that, you can boot the rescue CD to its Command Prompt, and mess around with the file there. Initially, a named file is deposited in WinSXS. That's the "servicing directory". Copies of all sorts of revisions of files sit in there. The files have very long names. The file you find in System32 is "hard linked". That means there are two file pointers, but only one set of data clusters. A particular file in WinSXS is hard linked into System32, as the wuaueng.dll file. If you delete wuaueng.dll, the file isn't actually deleted. The copy in WinSXS (goes by an entirely different name) lives on. So in fact "moving the file to another volume", is complicated by the fact that the file is actually two-headed. Similarly, you don't just "copy it back", as for the Servicing Stack to work properly, it has to be hard linked to its mate in WinSXS. You might be able to run "hashdeep" and generate checksums for all the files. And then go through the WinSXS results, to find a checksum that matches the wuaueng.dll you want to remove. You don't need to remove the WinSXS entry, merely make a note in your notes file as to "which one was hard linked" in the OS folder. To put it back properly, you'd hard link it in, plus you'd restore the permissions (most likely owned by TrustedInstaller). Once wuaueng.dll is missing, the service cannot start. Windows Update consists of two parts. WUAUSERV is the basic wheel spinning thing that works out what update is missing. BITS is used for download services, and BITS can open multiple connections, start downloads on multiple files and so on. The second part is Update Orchestrator, an Enterprise tool for waking up WUAUSERV. In the desktop version when you boot, you'll see a "flash" of a Command Prompt window, which disappears almost right away. That's actually some USOSVC activity. The update orchestrator USOSVC, maintains a number of Scheduler activities. In theory, a user could disable WUAUSERV some how, and USOSVC would have the ability to wake it up again. They're the "tag team" of updates. However, if you delete wuaueng.dll which is the code behind WUAUSERV, USOSVC should not be able to do anything to put it back. Microsoft has all the tools it needs, to "automate" repair of the OS, just to annoy users. But so far, they haven't stooped to doing that. The files in System32 should have WFP (Windows File Protection), but if you boot the computer using another OS, WFP won't be running, and then you could delete wuauserv.dll. App Store stuff and Tiles, are another matter. They don't seem to depend on Windows Update. And I've had 100MB of downloads for the Tiles, without any obvious log of the activity visible later. Removing wuaueng.dll is unlikely to affect the automation on the App Store. However, crushing BITS (qmgr.dll) would be a start in that direction. Paul |
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On 11/1/2018 02:11, Peter Percival wrote:
How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. First thing to try: just stop and disable WIndow$ Update Service. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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On 10/01/2018 18:11, Peter Percival wrote:
How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. Use Linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nobody gets Microsoft Fixes, updates etc Windows is for the intelligent. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On 10/01/2018 18:43, KenW wrote:
That info is all over the net. Try a search. What made you think he is intelligent enough to search for himself? -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On 1/10/2018 10:11 AM, Peter Percival wrote:
How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. This seems to go a long way in the right direction and it's trivial to implement: https://www.askvg.com/windows-10-tip...-installation/ |
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Peter Percival wrote in news
![]() @news.albasani.net: How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. Short of never getting on the internet, you can't. You can however set your system so that it won't accept updates until the business branch is released, which has let us unpaid beta testers find all the problems for six months first. |
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On 11/01/2018 03:42, Tim wrote:
Short of never getting on the internet, you can't. How the hell did you arrive at this conclusion? We know you are the most idiot person around but I never expected such rubbish even from you. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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It's Idiotic Good Guy not idiot
![]() -- AL'S COMPUTERS "Good Guy" wrote in message news ![]() Short of never getting on the internet, you can't. How the hell did you arrive at this conclusion? We know you are the most idiot person around but I never expected such rubbish even from you. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:11:35 +0000, Peter Percival
wrote in How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. Take a look at https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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Good Guy dumped this pile of ****
via news ![]() What made you think he is intelligent enough to search for himself? Dumbass' HTML snipped BITCHSLAP! Apparently you're too st00pid to post without HTML, you idiot. BACKHANDED BITCHSLAP! -- I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^; Resolve conflicts the American way : Rock - Paper - Scissors - Twitter War - Concealed Firearm .... and I approve this message! |
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Good Guy wrote:
On 10/01/2018 18:43, KenW wrote: That info is all over the net. Try a search. What made you think he is intelligent enough to search for himself? I would imagine that the information is available on Usenet and in other places too. Why deprecate the first? And especially, why should someone who uses the first deprecate it? Also, a reasonable response to "That info is all over the net" would be "Usenet is part of 'the net'". |
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CRNG wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:11:35 +0000, Peter Percival wrote in How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. Take a look at https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Thank you. And thank you everyone else for your replies too. |
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CRNG wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:11:35 +0000, Peter Percival wrote in How can I stop Microsoft downloading fixes, updates, etc? Short of disconnecting it from the Internet, that is. Take a look at https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 It doesn't work. |
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