Slashdot Mirror
Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader cites a report on The Guardian: Perhaps there's nothing more annoying than going in for the kill to suddenly be "pooped on" by a Windows 10 automatic installation taking out your computer mid-stream to your 130,000 or so followers. After deciding to advertise during the weather by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast, Windows 10 is starting to wreak havoc with gamers. Ex-professional Counter Strike player turned full-time streamer Erik Flom was rudely interrupted mid-game and live on Twitch by Windows 10 automatically installing on his PC. "What. What!? How did this happen! Fuck you Windows 10!" Flom said. "Oh my God! You had one job PC. We turned off everything. Update faster you fuck!"
I would post an answer, but my Windows is updating
deserve's got nothing to do with it...
How long have Windows gamers been making fun of Linux?
How these gamers are not computer-literate enough to turn Win10 crapware off?
After deciding to advertise during the weather by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast, Windows 10 is starting to wreak havoc with gamers.
????
1) Windows 10 didn't attempt to automatically install midway through a weather forecast, the prompt simply appeared and could have been quickly dismissed with a simple mouse click.
2) Windows 10 would never 'automatically' install without a user's permission to do so. If this happened, obviously they do not have their machines configured correctly.
That's Windows 10, great new OS with improved abilities, able to annoy users even before it is installed.
"Hello, user. Windows here. Listen, I really need to shut down to update myself. Would you like me to do that immediately? Or would you like to be reminded again in four hours?"
"Remind me again in four hours."
"Gotcha, see you in four hours."
[Ten minutes later.]
"Hello, user. Windows here. Listen, I really need to shut down to update myself. Would you like me to do that immediately? Or would you like to be reminded again in four hours?"
If the OS thinks that updating is more important than the program that's running on the foreground...
Holy mother of god!! If anything, if any other OS can just sweep up the win crap "features" into it
gamers around the world won't have to suffer this fate again...
... pissing off its customer base, one customer at a time.
if it's a video, use something made for video. Here's a youtube link to the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If Gaming 'Professionals' aren't capable and responsible enough to properly firewall away problems like this from the computers they are using as their 'studios' for their broadcasting operations, they aren't really very professional.
Aside from the whole problem of 'Pro Gaming' in general: what the heck? Why are we allowing Video Gaming to become a spectator sport? Personally I don't care about somebody's spot on a leaderboard. I go into games like World of Warcraft to immerse myself in a virtual world. Once you accept that there are 'winners' in such endeavors, you automatically become a loser.
Why isn't there more mainstream backlash against Windows 10? Despite plenty of reasons to say that Windows 10 sucks, most of the criticism seems to be from nerds. Even gamers like the one in the summary are nerds. Microsoft is doing lots of unsavory things, and I can't fathom why they're not facing far more widespread criticism over it. Microsoft might have to backpedal if they media reported more on their widespread Windows 10 gaffes. Why isn't this happening?
PC: "Hi, Windows here, I need to update. Do you want that now or in 15 minutes?"
Me: "Not now!"
After 15 minutes:
PC: "Shutting down without any further warning or chance to save your work, hahaha!"
Me: "Aaaarghhhghhh!"
You'll have to pry 7 from our cold dead hands Microsoft.
Unlike Linux, where its elitist pricks tell users to RTFM, us Windows users are superior. We just blame the user for being a fucking retard and not selecting the clearly defined "Don't update to Windows 10" option that's not there, and when they manage to hack the registry to disable the update, Microsoft just reverts the setting anyway!
Windows > Linux
kids these days eh?
Always getting on your lawn & stuff.
I'm totally guessing here, but I would assume this was able to be captured because he has a separate machine for gaming vs. streaming so that the streaming software would not take CPU cycles from the game. It could also mean that when he said he "turned everything off," he did so for the streaming PC, but maybe not the gaming PC.
Part of me wants to say it's his own damn fault, thought who knows, Windows seems to have no problem changing its own settings after updates.
Windows is actually doing us a favour in this case by shitting on another counterstrike tryhard.
on my wife's laptop, it had been asking her for months if she wanted to upgrade to Windows 10, and she kept clicking no thanks. Well, last week it tried a new tactic -- it said "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later?" she picked "later" (meaning never), but the thing dutifully upgraded to Windows 10 once she walked away! i guess it figured it was "later" and had her permission. (and yes of course she fucking hates it, it adds nothing of value!)
nasty trick, Microsoft!
i could live a little longer in this prison
So is there a way to disable it?
I have Pro so I used the group policy to let me choose whether I want to install updates and when to install them.
But the huge fullscreen nag screen that takes over your entire windows session and cannot be dismissed still pops up.
There *has* to be a way to disable this, or you're going to start seeing these nag screens appearing on more news/weather broadcasts/internet streams/airport displays/etc worldwide as windows 10 continues to roll out.
Fuck, imagine getting it on an ATM.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Your computer isn't yours. redmond has been working long and hard to make this happen. The software certainly isn't, and therefore it can do what it likes.
PHB: any one catch that pro-gaming stream that got interrupted by a windows 10 update? pretty absurd wouldnt you say?
engineer: The machine that controls card readers has been updating all night and our first shift team cant relieve third shift. Windows 10 is turning out to be a pretty ridiculous product.
Janitor: you said it guys, Thanks to these unscheduled windows 10 updates my timecard hasnt properly submitted in nearly a month!
Operator: Yeah, and dont get me started on the SCRAM/status panel for the reactors. Im mostly controlling the whole thing from my geiger counter. but hey, best windows ever am i rite?!
Good people go to bed earlier.
Kill me now. I don't want to live in this world.
Wait, the PC said that, right?
Problem solved.
Windows Update isn't the only piece of software that randomly wakes up and decides to use your network. Since nothing behaves itself, including the OS, you need to install something 3rd party that forces stuff to behave itself... assuming the 3rd party behaves itself... which it sometimes doesn't.
I had made my Windows 8.0 install work nicely for me. It never pestered me to upgrade to 10, but I need security updates. I never installed 8.1 because I didn't want to risk the stability of my Laptop that was working just fine. So, last month, I got new drives and installed Ubuntu 16.04. I'm going to miss the Windows-only games on Steam that I never played anyway. Still working out some minor annoyances, but it has been working well for me so far.
(Anybody know how to make the alt key keep the menu opening. I tap the alt key, then hit the f key separately, so it is alt then f. Not Alt-F. My "saving" muscle reflex is alt, then f, then s. But that isn't working for me in Ubuntu.)
Yeah, Microsoft, I took my ball and went somewhere else instead. (But if I really need to, I can put the old drives back in...)
IMarv
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
If you had upgraded instead of saying "dur hur windows 10 is shit don't want it" like some child who is afraid of change, this wouldn't be happening.
Never check for updates (not recommended).
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
. This is Windows 10 saying, you ARE the product, and we own your a$$. I'm so happy I didn't get windows 10. Want this to change, tell the pinheads at Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP or anyone else you even things of getting a PC from to offer Windows 7 as an option on ALL models or you'll build your own, which is quite easy these days. NewEgg.com is a convenient place to get parts. For those who want to use something with more power/trustworthiness, Linux comes in many flavors. For beginners I recommend Linux Mint and ElementaryOS. "No" is a wonderful word. Let's all say "No" to Windows 10
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
For those that haven't seen it, take a look at Never 10. It's a simple utility that disables GWX (Get Windows 10) by doing the registry / group policy editing for you. You just run it once; you don't need to install anything or keep it running in the background.
No prompts, no upgrades, and no Windows 10 installation files taking up space on your drive.
by Cyphase ( 907627 )
Format c:
/s
optionally
Format c:
"Shall we play a game?" -W.O.P.R.
LAN play just wait for some to auto lose to a update disconnect.
What kind of F-bombs will go off in a big money event when some auto loses in a match and they must be online do to the DRM system.
Oh, and don't forget to turn OFF Automatic/Windows update in the SERVICES (Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services). It's the ONLY way to get MS windows to behave itself (ie, not give you some crap that is MS's interest instead of yours). You'll have to check every individual update you want to install with a microscope and research them on forums because now MS has said it's policy is not to tell people what updates do except "enhance" the OS, but if you keep your a good antivirus/malware it helps. Of course you can also use Linux (or apple if you trust them...but hm....trust apple...). Anyway, for whomever it helps.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Microsoft still claims that the upgrade to Windows 10 is never done without user consent. What a load of BS on their part.
Microsoft is the most schizo of all the current tech companies. Their .NET stack, Visual Studio, C#/F#, etc? Pure developer heaven. But their OS side of things are strongly driving me away from the platform as a whole. I'm happy that they're open sourcing everything that I truly care about, but it'd be great if they could quit trying to force shit on me (and my corporate laptop.. No, Microsoft, some of the 3rd party tools we use daily don't run on Windows 10, please DIAF).
And don't get me started on fucking up the basic calculator.
STFU
Situation normal at good ol' Microsoft! See you at Window 11 update!
Incompetent control of system options leads to unforeseen service interruptions. Seem that this "feature" is OS independent to me. Name a single consumer OS (most Linux or BSD distros are removed by the "consumer" description) today that is not out of box configured for automatic updates?
I'm fucking hate Windows 10 and MS's approach to shoving it up people's urethras.
But this is clearly faked for attention.
... welcome our new video-game overlords!
Why would you recommend Linux? By your own logic, since it is free, you must be the product.
... when I am ready to go home for the night.
So enlighten us with your firewall rules to prevent this from happening.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The 10 upgrade was changed to a critical update where previously it was optional. So you can disable updates all together or use something like GWX Control Panel to kill the pending upgrade.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
"Hey this thing's working really well and making us tons of money."
"Ya, but you need something to do this month."
"Ok, we'll completely design it."
"That's the spirit, promote this man."
This can be applied to Google, Apple, et al. Microsoft is just extraordinarily bad at it.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
people used to ask "why don't you use windows?" but since Windows 10 started pestering everyone, people actually ask serious questions about switching to Linux. :D
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
You were lucky t'have 640K. Real gamers used t'have t'wait for games t'load off scratchy cassette recordings which often had to be rewound multiple times and even then most of the 32K of memory was tak'n up by the display so parts of the 8-bit OS were overwritten for the game to run.
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
[Cue ZX81 owner...]
It looks like these streamers do not realize that their computer is a work tool. So, when you buy or choose a work tool, you have to ensure it fits your job. Nothing should be able to interrupt a stream. No Skype notification, no friggin Steam notification, no SMS alert on your phone, just game, game and game. Anything else should have been moved out of the way. Your tools and workplace should be specially tuned for that. But hey, people just expect an average gamer PC to magically turn into a professional tool without any action.
Stupidity is the root of all evil.
That might be true until MS change tack and bypass it entirely.
IT will happen.
Don't bank on the GWX utility to keep working.
I will never use Windows 10 and I develop windows (Server) software for a living but not for much longer thankfully.
That's where the poor, stupid schmuck who chose Microsoft Crippled Garbageware over a REAL Operating System, such as GNU/Linux, or a true UNIX such as Apple's Mac OS X, sits.
It's your own damned fault people. We have been warning you for years now, that you're funding and fueling a digital electronic hegemony by knuckling under to this, and using Microsoft's... for want of a better word, software.
Now you reap what you've sown. Microsoft acts like it owns your computer and until you UPGRADE to GNU/Linux, this is your lot.
Enjoy. All the free penguinistas are laughing at your stupidity and weakness.
Don't ask me to help you now either, because I've got one thing to say to you if you want to start learning GNU/Linux now:
R. T. F. M.
Had this happen during a gig. Playing a game online is easier to recover from than when it's a full room of people dancing
I remember early years of World of Warcraft raids, when players' anti-virus software would all update at the same time, causing multiple people to drop.
Finally this is getting mainstream attention. Windows automatically updating with a big "fuck you" while you're doing work - and not even saving your fucking work - is one of the biggest most blatant lack of regard for their users I've ever seen. I shudder at how many man-years of work have been lost by this process.
As a somewhat hardened veteran of software installation, and the unbounded stupidity that arises from boneheaded mistakes that occur, I would like to point out the following:
Windows 10 Update installation does not follow the guidelines for updating as explicitly laid out in your software, that is "we will update when you are not using the computer". To help matters further, we will specifically exclude during the following hours "8am to 5:30pm".
So WHY THE FUCK WAS THERE AN UNCONTROLLED INSTALLATION OF AN OS UPDATE AT 4PM TODAY DURING THE TIME I WAS ACTIVELY USING THE SYSTEM? And when I say uncontrolled, it was not "oh click later to install, it was "we are rebooting now to install, OK". No deferral, no postponement, just instant notice.
Not to mention that the reboot occurred during a very intense multiplayer fight that I was the host of, which effectively drop-kicked several players out into the ether without me being able to contact them to let them know what was going on.
Did you mean 8am - to 5:30pm my local time, or that of the Microsoft HQ, in sunny whereever? It is bad enough that games developers can't actually remember how many days there are in April, yet to fuck up simple time management for updating has to be some fairly serious mismanagement on the part of senior design leads.
Or could it be that it completely ignores it like the boneheaded mechanism that only allows 10hour "active" windows slot, because there is no possible reason why people at home could not be using it from 7 in the morning until midnight? or am I completely in the dark about usability that requires a 14 hour window to update on a daily basis?
Of course to further the boneheaded-ness it completely fucked the graphics drivers, where it greenscreened just at idle on the desktop - to the point I had to continuously reboot until I could get to the stage where I could get a CMD prompt up and manage to type "shutdown /o /r /t 1" to get a relatively swift reboot into a mode where I say yes, I want to run a troubleshooting step, and reboot, and then select safe mode, and then reboot into it.
Not to mention that it has been a known problem with the graphics drivers since the last update, and putting it down to "it is the responsibility of the driver manufacturers (Microsoft Engineer)" is disingenuous at best, as MS is supposed to have WHQL'd the drivers, which means that MS should have caught this problem much earlier in testing during the automated build and test phase.
To top that then off, I can't run Microsoft EDGE because the "built in administrator account can't run it".... I can't run explorer because you've managed to switch of the command searching in the cortana interface, which means that I can't run taskmanager, command, etc. What stupidity of a design decision managed to get authorised to create this situation?
The insider fast ring is supposed to be a way to bring light problems that exist in interaction with components. Fucking with AMD graphics drivers in this way isn't an acceptable manner of implementing software best practices.
Now I have to spend an hour fucking around with Device driver uninstaller, because in the infinite wisdom, you've managed to disable any ability of the driver software to recognise that there is an installed device, so of course the programs bomb out with a "no recognised device" so we won't do anything remotely sensible like uninstall the graphics drivers. Then I have to spend an hour waiting whilst I roll back the installation, then reinstall drivers, then reboot, reset up profiles, and ... then reboot again. That is a considerable amount of unnecessary reboots as you rush to get untested, useless additions out into the population.
Yours,
Entirely Hacked Off
People don't understand Microsoft. Microsoft regularly delivers evil. Delivering evil makes the top managers feel superior.
I wish you could run it under Windows 10 :-)
Nope, he's the BSD user, *I* am the Linux user.
But I couldn't show up earlier: I was busy recompiling my kernel, sorry for being late.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I sure hope people start sueing them left and right. And that EU and other governmental agencies from other countries start looking into them quick because this is getting out of control, MS needs to be stopped and this time with harsher measures than those on the previous antitrust... clearly they didn't learn a efing thing.
The Guardian reporting on tech seems not to be good. They reported that Windows 10 installed automatically, when actually it was an update to an installation of Windows 10 that already existed.
The Twitch stream clearly shows that he had Windows 10 installed already.
It then shows him looking for a way to delay the upgrade...
You can lose something that is loose, so tighten the loose item so you don't lose it.
Watched a bunch of Dota 2 live streams lately, noticed way too many "windows intrusions" in the form of lan lag, game restarts and system reboots. Valve's Dota 2 Linux beta is solid and the network will work properly with minimal lag, guaranteed. Only a matter of time before pro players and tournament organizers notice that. Farting around with a second rate operating system costs big money at that level.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Blame himself for installing Windows 10. Seriously.
Its like people in a bad relationship that always blame the other person when in fact it is their responsibility. You can never blame someone for something you are responsible for. Its your fault for getting entwined in the bad relationship and not walking away when you knew it was bad. If you don't walk away, how can you blame the other person? No one owes you anything.
Its up to you to determine what you want and also what you don't want. If the universe determines it for you because of your failure to decide, you may not like the result, but don't bitch about it.
While this is shitty behavior, this is not an automatic W10 install.
Dude already had W10 installed, this was an automatic Update, followed by a restart, not an automatic dist-upgrade.
Microsoft is clearly violating anti-trust laws, and maybe some criminal laws, too, probably anti-hacking laws for taking over control of people's computers that they bought and paid for. Haul Microsoft's CEO out into the streets and flog the son of a bitch, then send is ass back to the shithole country he came from. Break up Microsoft and sell off the pieces to other companies, and use the money to educate people on installing and using Linux instead. Problems all solved.
Get a friggin' Mac already. Oh, I guess you like Windows after all. Stop wasting all our time then with your ranting and ridiculously boring stories about Windows, drivers, and antivirus software.
I wonder if there are any, against all wisdom, control posts for nuclear facilities that are running Windows 7 or 8, that really, cannot, must not, be interrupted during sensitive operations.
That will be the BEST time to update.
Any publicity is good publicity, right?
-- "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." --Dijkstra
Or you could update and not have to worry about the nagging reminders.
NO MEANS NO, MICROSOFT.
The message asks the forecaster to update to Windows 10. So, the OS must have been 7 or 8.
Let me contribute a story from a different angle.
I grew up on Microsoft products including MS-DOS (anyone remember DESQView?), Win3.x, Win95, Win98, NT4, 2K, XP. Skipped Vista. Win7, Win8.1. Tried Win10 and went back to Win7 and Win8.1 for the pen support + Classic Start Menu. Have used Macintosh, QNX, FreeBSD, and Linux Slackware on occasions then later used Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi and CentOS for VPS. I developed code in assembly, user space, and kernel space work. Have written game cheats, viruses, malware, cracks, and hacks. Contributed to open source and developed utilities some of you may even use. I stayed with MS for one thing. UI and gaming. I have seen an erosion of my control of the OS. I'm being protected against myself from doing what I want to do. That's too bad. You can't get a lifer that likes MS operating systems as much as me and now I can see the end coming. Granted that *NIX UIs have never looked and felt as good as MSFT to me, the number of differences is closing every decade. I learned a lot about the system thanks to Microsoft. The Romanian tech industry also thanks you as do the US, Russians, Chinese, Hungarian, and German underground communities.
There's one thing you can't touch. Disrupting any form of entertainment purposes is off limits. I don't care how much you want to save people from themselves. The moment the OS tells you what you need to do is when I stop caring or championing it. The OS should help users do more, in less time, and provide training wheels to those that need it. I still really hate pure console and vi/emac. It doesn't make me productive. Someday I may switch over to ReactOS. The OS is sacred. The PC is not a Windows Phone where the platform provider owns everything. Stop with this thinking. You will fail. I will not use you. I will not support any family members that use you. I will let you slowly fail to obscurity if you keep beating me down with features. Telemetry won't save you. You need to listen to your best champions.
On a metered connection (any connection) if Win10 isn't shut down it will use all the bad width to update itself. Gaming well you take your chances :)
Win7 after april 4th 19 2015 I stopped all updates, and sorted through the ones required and didn't mess with the ones that has wishywashie explanations of what they did.
The one in question is the one that kept force feeding u Win10, after collecting gobs of your data.
to add - don't underestimate the value of a HOSTS file.
This happened to me last week. I wasn't streaming or anything, but I was playing Dirt Rally. It was an online stage, which you only get one shot at per day. 30 seconds in, W10 decides it needs to do some upgrading right then, so it collapses my game into a window, throws crap all over the screen and forces a restart. Afterwards, due to Dirt Rally policy of disallowing a stage restart if the game is exited mid-stage, I was unable to have another shot at it. In the overall scheme of things it matters very little, but I was absolutely blown away by the sheer chutzpah of the OS doing that.
I'm a Mac guy, and only use W10 to run this game - it's nothing but a launcher as far as I'm concerned. Macs may be many things (and a great gaming platform isn't one of them, hence I have a PC for that), but I can't imagine a Mac ever doing something this obnoxious. If they ever do, that's the end of me upgrading for sure.
If anyone knows how I can disable this I'm all ears. I have everything else disabled that I can see - location, Cortana, etc, etc, but it STILL thinks it knows better.
Fl0m LUL 4Heah FeelsBadMan
Like this. Note that to change the registry key, you need to first take its ownership and then give yourself permission to edit it, while running regedit as Administrator. No more updates. Poof!
You are welcome.
People seem to think that it is windows TEN that they're getting, when 10 is binary, pure and simple. That is why the question posed to the user is always 1-Yes 0-No There is really no representation for 'later' in binary. MS should simply post the EULA as the real question, with the usual two choices at the end: Agree or decline. This way, you are already familiar with the deception er I mean the EULA, and can respond accordingly
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
I'm surprised no one has called Microsoft out for using malware type tactics to push Windows 10 upgrades
The article talks about an automated Windows 10 installation and quote: "Regardless of how good Windows 10 might be and how automatic installs boost user numbers, forcing it down the throats of unsuspecting gamers, weather people and workers isn’t exactly going to breed goodwill among Windows users" but it's very clearly just a Windows Update on a machine already running 10.
You may say this is a minor distinction: the PC still rebooted when he didn't want it to - but it's still shoddy journalism with an obvious axe to grind. This isn't a case of Windows being forced down someone's throat - it's a case of a normal Windows Update, which would have been warning him for hours of the pending reboot and he had the opportunity to disable.
Furthermore, how did Microsoft get into the position of forcing reboots for updates on people? Because people ignored updates, otherwise, resulting in millions of unpatched XP boxes and everyone blaming Microsoft. So Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
As much as I hate the forced reboot effect of patches, I know how we got to this point and I understand why it's like this. Microsoft updates do warn you and allow you to put the reboot off for 1 or 4 hours (repeatedly) so again, I think he had some opportunity to prevent this. Additionally, he's effectively a "professional sportsman", so he should know his equipment. It's not like you cannot turn off automated updates. He should have done that. If his job revolves around needing his PC to not be interrupted in real time, he should have taken the simple steps required to make that happen.
You can turn off automatic restart, and even the notifications are pretty unnoticable. Learn to work you shit. Maybe restart your computer beforehand so if there's anything pending you don't get hit? I turn mine off every night and never get notifications, the only reason I know it gets updates is because it does the "installing updates don't turn off your PC" thing during shutdown or startup.
> "What. What!? How did this happen! Fuck you Windows 10!" Flom said. "Oh my God! You had one job PC. We turned off everything. Update faster you fuck!"
The Angry German Kid has grown up and now has a job. By he is still angry :)
Like an idiot, I figured I'd eventually be stuck with Win10 on my gaming box after MS sunsets Win7 support, so I tried it out on my year-old, fair-to-middling quality home-built rig. All of my performance-hit fears were soon realized, including network lag, bandwidth usage, really crappy GPU support (on a GTX 980 Ti ferchrissakes!), and crashes/reboots due to interminable windows updates. Silly me. It was like trying to play the original Everquest on a Zenith 286.
Reinstalling Win7 cleanly, sans all the annoying Win10 "free upgrade" updates, is OK for now. When Win7 support sunsets, it's Steam on Linux for me.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
I'm getting damned tired of seeing the F word all over the Internet. Don't those dingbats who use that word have any other word in their working vocabulary that they can use?
I suggest that if you're quoting something that has the F word in it, edit it out by replacing it with something less obnoxious.
I'm still here using Windows 10 on my personal and work desktops just fine, wondering where all of the problems I'm supposed to be having are. I work in IT and am an avid gamer and computer nerd.
Read the EULA.
-enter "gpedit.msc" in run (windows key + r)
-navigate to computer configuration -> administrative templates -> windows components -> windows update
-find "configure automatic updates" setting in right window
-select "disable"
You're welcome
https://www.grc.com/never10.ht... Perhaps that might help ?
Microsoft looked for a year or two there as though they might have learned that behaving like user-disregarding monopolist was a bad idea. Apparently not. Old habits die hard.
Only boring people are ever bored.
That's what you get from just clicking without reading the message.. He had a message a few days before the actual upgrade on when it was automatically gonna upgrade, and he was able to set a different time...... So all in all it's his own fault..
If you upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, you can control when and how you take updates. I do this, and it works just fine. You can find the instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windo...
I am several days late because I have been playing Tomb Raider on my Linux machine.
Yup, I feel your pain. It was an anxious wait until RadeonSI hit the opengl 4.2~4.3 milestone in Mesa.
(To all the other regular /. readers: sorry for the deep insider joke).
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]