MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: How do you disable automatic windows updates in windows 10?

> It's an education problem on your behalf. My computer can't handle the latest update
> and goes in a continuous loop of taking an hour to install the update, then being
> unable to boot up, then uninstalling it, then restarting, then the next night
> repeating that. Any sane person would rather take their risk with an antivirus and
> firewall protecting them and crossing fingers in like a year to see if Microsoft
> fixed the bugs.

And you'll end up being hacked, even if you don't know it.

It's likely a conflict / configuration error with something you have installed. It's also possible that your machine is *already* infected with some rootkit like thing which is actively preventing Windows from updating properly, that used to happen a fair bit on XP / 7 at least.

I've already said I've seen machines broken due to Windows 10 updates failing, but that's still a lot less of a problem than people ending up with their machines as part of botnets.

It's still an education issue, because the correct thing to do, to ensure the safety of everybody else in such a case is to do a fresh installation. The incorrect / selfish thing to do is keep running the machine and potentially put others at risk when your machine gets infected.

If your car develops a critical safety problem you don't keep driving it, because you'd be putting others in danger by doing so, computers are no different. Not being able to apply updates is a critical problem.

If I was in charge of the policies for this at Microsoft I'd probably do things in a slightly different way, choose when the updates are installed, but tear down ALL network connections apart from those needed to deliver updates if you defer them for more than a week. Equivalent of "keep your car parked on your drive until it's safe"

It just seems like no lessons have been learned from the last 15 years. Even with everybody saying 'keep Flash up to date' or even 'Don't install Flash' everybody kept ignoring that warning too because it allowed them to play some games and clicking 'update' was too much hassle, thus also happily letting every dodgy streaming site under the sun infect their machine and provide further exploitable holes in their system.