Windows Updated even with WuMgr

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With the help of this forum and WuMgr, I had installed Susan’s recommended  Oct Cum Update KB5018410 yesterday on my Win 10 Pro Desktop PC and then used Windows Updates (WU) to pause updates until December.

Today, I learned that it’s not OK to pause WU if using WuMgr, so I took off the WU pause. Unfortunately it started downloading and installing updates.

I got the PC shutdown but not before it installed one update, and 2 or 3 others were in the process of downloading or installing (Including the .NET updates that Susan recommends deferring.)

What would you recommend doing next?

Is there some way to get rid of these updates? Shutting down the network would be a challenge: the PC is on  WIFI from the condo association

Or perhaps, just let them install and just go with them (ie how I dealt with Microsoft’s updates for years before getting involved with AskWoody last year- this approach actually did work OK for me)

Or restoring the system:  I have a system recovery image and media from before installing the Oct Cum Update KB501841;

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Just for your information:
That is why you should never use “Pause” in the Settings App\Windows Update. When you “Resume updates” from there, it disregards any other settings and and automatically downloads/installs updates. Doesn’t ask, doesn’t wait – just does it.

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PKCano wrote:

When you “Resume updates” from there, it disregards any other settings and and automatically downloads/installs updates. Doesn’t ask, doesn’t wait – just does it.

For sure that’s exactly what happened.

At this point, it seems I really have just two options:

the risky one:

Beth40 wrote:

just let them install and just go with them

or the time consuming one:

Beth40 wrote:

restoring the system

Any thoughts about which way to go?

 

 

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If you are not having any problems, I would just let it be this time.
If you have problems, you can uninstall the CU or restore the image (be sure you backup your data first (C:\Users\<yourID>).

If you are going to use WUMgr, then leave Windows Update alone and only use WUMgr.

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Beth40

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PKCano,

I’ve been using my Win10 Pro PC since yesterday with no issues.

From now on I will just use WuMgr and let WU alone.

Many thanks,

Beth

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