Microsoft is starting to force-update Windows 10 machines from version 1803 to 1903

[john984]

I'm still running Win7 Pro and I have no security or update issues.

 

[ShagnWagn]

Working blocker:

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-3/

Keep it updated.

Cheers!

With 10 home, I found that disabling only the Windows Update service is not enough. https://www.techspot.com/community/...me-to-reboot-for-updates.248051/#post-1695440

At least on Server 2016 (same kernel as 10) - if you disable the firewall service, it cannot download updates from MS servers.

 

[Skjorn]

Look up 'InSpectre'

Working blocker:

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-3/

Keep it updated.

Cheers!

I was thinking more of a guide and which updates to delete. I'd rather not download some tool.

 

[Ahmad DanHamidu]

My office desktop recently upgraded from 1803 to 1809 and all the user files (documents and media files) DISAPPEARED irreversibly. Clearly Microsoft didn't fix that problem when it surfaced in 2018. Shame on Microsoft!

 

[cliffordcooley]

Shame on Microsoft!

Shame is not the word that needs to be used. Someone needs to bankrupt them.

 

[Stark]

"The good news is, Windows 10 version 1903 seems to be relatively stable so far and perhaps a bit ironically, it even includes some helpful new update control features."

What about the USB installation? Does the media still refuse to install with USB devices connected? I have avoided trying because I don't want the headache.

I recently installed from a USB and found that you must be plugged into a USB 2, not 3 port. After that, it was smooth sailing.

When plugged into USB ports on the back of the motherboard, the installation media should work fine irrespective of the port being gen 2 or 3. but when using the front ports connected through a passthrough to the motherboard this is in fact true.

 

[cliffordcooley]

@Stark, I will keep that in mind.

 

[captaincranky]

My office desktop recently upgraded from 1803 to 1809 and all the user files (documents and media files) DISAPPEARED irreversibly. Clearly Microsoft didn't fix that problem when it surfaced in 2018. Shame on Microsoft!

All I can say here is, "a fool and his data are soon parted company". This being a work computer, try not to take that too personally..

In all honesty, I have no idea how to use the "library" functions in Windows 7. Any data stored on C:/ has to be viewed as expendable. The only actual files I have stored on any of my C:/ documents folders on any of my machines, are those on the desktop. Everything else, is on physically separate drives. "Pictures, Documents, Videos, Music", anything that the Windows "library" function manages, are all on separate HDDs.

With the reputation Windows 10 has developed for screwing up computers with its forced updates, in all honesty, if I were using Windows 10 and I knew I was doomed to accepting a version update, I would go to the extent of unplugging all the drives in the system, (save for C:/, of course), before I ever allowed the update to continue.

And you can tell your boss, "captaincranky said to tell you, I need more drives in my machine".

 

[Tazz602]

This is a very misleading and one sided article. Many of us are waiting, waiting, waiting for MS to send us the update. My update app says it will be sent when it is ready. I wish tech authors actually did research these days.

 

[captaincranky]

This is a very misleading and one sided article. Many of us are waiting, waiting, waiting for MS to send us the update. My update app says it will be sent when it is ready. I wish tech authors actually did research these days.

I think it's cute the way TS "rookies", are always nipping at M$'s heels, wagging their tails, and, "begging to be taken for a walk", so to speak.

Erstwhile, a great many of our more senior members are, "bracing for update impact", so to speak

And our writers never get it right, do they? I guess it does take an outsider to point out the follies and foibles of our ways..

I'm so damned jaded though. I think Satya Nadella is a major a**hole, and the most tyrannical CEO a corrupt monopolistic company such as M$ could have chosen, and you're most likely a shill.

Oh well, "welcome to Techspot", anyway.