Today’s the day: Block Win10 Creators Update

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Step-by-step instructions for blocking the next version of Win10. Coming up in InfoWorld.
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Here’s an interesting one for ya woody.

Microsoft Windows 10 allows some applications full system control from the lockscreen.

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There is a small but important typo in the InfoWorld article: ‘To turn off the Windows 10 update service (again, I don’t recommend this), use the method posted by Pradeep on the MSPowerUser blog. He steps you through the method to go into services.msc, find the Windows Update service (wuauserv), turn it to manual, then reboot. That disables Windows Update entirely.’ Manual should be Disabled!

I’ve found that setting the connection to Metered is OK until Windows looks for updates – which seems to be every 5 days, and then the CPU runs up to around 35% and stays there, because WU is constantly trying to download updates, but can’t of course because it’s set to Metered. I’ve only ever left it for about 2 hours, but then got fed up with the fan racing and stopped WU in Services, followed by Disabling it – otherwise it all happens again 5 days later.

It’s a simple matter to temporarily switch it back to Manual (the default) to download and install any updates from the MS Updates Catalogue that Woody has given the green light to.

Why we should have to jump through hoops like that just to put the machine into a usable condition is another matter entirely. Maybe it’s been fixed in Creators, but I’m in no hurry to find out!

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woody

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Blocking updates is considerably simpler in Creators Update – but only for Pro/Enterprise users. Home users get to volunteer for unpaid beta tester duty.

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Apparently privacy options will be allowed to be reviewed before the upgrade actually happen

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4014916

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Makes you wonder… Why? So people can’t claim ignorance of what Microsoft is collecting in future court cases?

-Noel

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Something I was wondering. What’s the difference between a hotfix and a patch/update?

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v1511 patchs arrived, no creators update offered yet ,1607 removed from hidden updates

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I see the Windows 10 updates versions list is already out and true to form on the official Release day theres already 2 listed (yeah I know we had them already) seems like “Deja vu”
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/12387/windows-10-update-history
Must be a special day today as normally the 1607 Cumm updates arrive before the info makes it to the Web page 😉

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AElMassry

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Do I need to turn the meter connection to off in order to run the Microsoft’s Wushowhide tool?  Thanks

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No.

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Greetings from Australia. I have found much to my dismay that several Toshiba laptops are not shown as compliant with the 1703 Creators version update. There has been no problem in updating them from 8.1 to Win 10/1507/1511/1607. On contacting Toshiba support I was told that “they had failed testing”. I could not get an answer as to if whether it was hardware or software that was the problem. My own Toshiba is a Satellite P50. I know about the Toshiba Display Utility that is a cause of failure to install. Toshiba computers are no longer sold in Australia, presumably because they can’t be marketed at an attractive price.

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KB4013214 Is Mandatory to Get Windows 10 Creators Update via Windows Update

http://news.softpedia.com/news/kb4013214-is-mandatory-to-get-windows-10-creators-update-via-windows-update-514814.shtml

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woody

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Looks like that handles the new pre-installation privacy settings dialog.

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In your article to block the Win 10 Creator’s Update you say to check the box Defer Feature Updates in Update & Secrity/Advanced. On my system this is grayed out because your instructions in a previous post were to use the Group Policy Editor, Defer Windows Updates, which allows you to defer feature updates for up to 180 days and Quality Updates for 35 days. I will assume that if I keep using the Group Policy Settings I should just alter the Quality Updates setting to non configured. Nevertheless I would like to know your opinion on this and which setting is better to use to defer feature updates. Another Question is why not just configure Windows to be in the Current Branch for Business?

I saw an article a while back (I forget the source) that allows you to change the Group policy settings without a restart. To quote the article: “Or, if you want, you can simply launch an elevated Command Prompt and run the command “gpupdate/force”. This automatically causes any sort of change you made to the Group Policy to take effect.”

I have used this tip a number of times and it really works.

millerah

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Hi,

I’ve got W10 Pro and had updates set to current branch for business but a couple of nights ago I had an incident where the antivirus software(webroot) flagged a hreat, quarantined a load of files and blocked a host of applications at that point Windows Audio service stopped every time an attempt was made to play sound. The antivirus support people couldn’t manage to fix the problem and attempts to restore backups failed so they told me to get in touch with Microsoft support. Their solution to the problem was to install the Creators update on my computer (Don’t think they bothered to try and work out what caused the problem). Sound works fine now but updates are still set to current branch for business so not sure how that is going to work out.

Al

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