How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing
Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block...
Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.
Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet again!
Curse you Bill Gates!!!!
Fred
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing
Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft- windows/how-to-block-windows-10-april-2018-update-from-installing.html
Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Fred Taylor fbtaylor@gmail.com wrote:
Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet again!
Curse you Bill Gates!!!!
Yeah, Bill don't work here no more. He took all his filthy lucre and he's off defeating malaria and polio and saving the world and it's hard to hate on the guy except, you know, Windows. And Clippy. And killing VFP.
I'm doing family tech support, and a couple of the folks have SLLOOOOWWW internet connections (like 1 Mbps) and Windows updates are killing them. I'm going to try the "metered" trick that Woody suggests in the article. "Feature Updates" are entirely new versions of Windows that are 1 Gb or more in size and try to install right on top of old and sometimes corrupt Windows and cause all sorts of problems. Freemanize (tm), I say! And, of course, you really have to wait until SP1 ships before anything's usable. The more things change,...
I doubt Mr. Gates had anything to recent builds of Windows.
And you should blame the management, programmers and engineers in Micro$oft!
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Fred Taylor fbtaylor@gmail.com wrote:
Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet again!
Curse you Bill Gates!!!!
FWIW, for anyone that does end up with it installed, all things Fox seem to work fine.
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?
On 03-May-18 8:22 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing
Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block...
Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.
On Fri, 4 May 2018, at 3:57 PM, AndyHC wrote:
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?
It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2018, at 3:57 PM, AndyHC wrote:
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?
It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.
Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold" option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy 1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of "We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all the machines I have to support.
On 04/05/18 13:26, Ted Roche wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2018, at 3:57 PM, AndyHC wrote:
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?
It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.
Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold" option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy 1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of "We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all the machines I have to support.
So, all they have to do for you to open your wallet and pay for more than you need is to bugger you on the Home edition?
You can still get the Home edition free if you have Win 7 AFAIK, so they have to charge for something.
No. I don't buy, and don't recommend Windows.
Home is a crippled version, as we know from trying to run VFP on it.
When the next relative asks for a new machine, I'll ensure THEY pay for a Pro version on it.
(written on my Chromebook, instead of my usual Linux box)
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Ricardo Araoz ricaraoz@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/05/18 13:26, Ted Roche wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2018, at 3:57 PM, AndyHC wrote:
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?
It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.
Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold" option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy 1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of "We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all the machines I have to support.
So, all they have to do for you to open your wallet and pay for more than you need is to bugger you on the Home edition?
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