Windows Users - You Need To Change This NOW!

Microsoft have been turning on a setting or getting users to switch on this setting which could cause the downfall of your machine.

[@DraxxDarlok]

To quote Lando Calrissian: “This Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time.” Before I retired, I was doing the security patching for 50000+ workstations every month. Microsoft's patches were a bloody nightmare. We tested them out in our lab environment because you couldn't trust MS to not screw something up every month. It was unusual for them not to break something critical in our production environment. MS quality control makes absolutely sure that no quality whatsoever escapes into the world; they treat it like a biolab quarantine.

[@esecallum]

Pray I dont alter it further

[@warrenpuckett4203]

Guess it is tradition. When Boeing took over McDonald / Douglas. Los Angeles hid the Novell Servers. At midnight every night it backed up the Los Angeles/Orange M$ servers. Then a M$ virus took the system down. All systems up in less than 24 hours. Bldg 90 never went down. No internet connection. Satellite and MD production? Nope every desk had to be wiped and restored to the last known good state. But all that data was back and running. The next day. 2 days before Seattle and St Louis was back. Sometimes cheaper is not better and wisa worsa. Novell code probably still is secure. As for tech support? I am a usta. The last Macs I worked on were in Seal Beach. I also dropped my M$ and Mac certs. Just other things that I wanted to do. Like going back to working in refinery repair. Always a need for fixing and the tech does not change every 3 years. And it pays better. But it also is dangerous. If you don't know what you are doing. I know like when I was in the Navy. Why would a 220lb, 5'9" ET that could be 1/2 of the shore line and mooring line spool movers do that when he was not tweaking electrons? I get bored. I went back to turning nut and screws. 3/4 inch screws are the little ones. The ones with the 90lb wrenches pay better. Some times, no, make that most of the time. If anybody can do it. You get anybody can do it pay. My EE was not a waste. I just don't like sitting at desk and or a console.

[@jakehildebrand1824]

Because heaven forbid they give us something that works

[@JelliedInfant]

It's been turned on for Windows 10 on my machine. I'm not acting as a beta tester for Microsoft. It's not my fault they they gutted their QA.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Everyone is making the switch to Linux to combat Microsoft it's all the FAA doing this bullshit we don't need the government dictating Bill Gates company if you want the chance to AVOID forced Artificial Intelligence then convert to Linux it's our last line of defense.

[@terencehughes9170]

Yep it’s also on on my windows 10

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

@@terencehughes9170 Garuda Linux Bird of Prey is a Linux based Operating System focused on gamers and privacy or for whatever you want. As long as you meet the requirements it brings back classic start menu and plasma is 10x better than Windows a lot of themes available that will put Microsoft to shame they have private search engines and how to protect yourself online please be sure to check them out.

[@ronaldlebeck9577]

I have Win 10 Pro 64-bit on my computers. I have that particular setting, "Get the latest updates as soon as they are available" turned off, and it's been off since I installed Win 10. Even though my computers (supposedly) can run Win 11, I have the forced update to it blocked in the Local Group Policy, so nothing past Win 10 Pro 22H2 can be installed. In all of my 30+ years in IT, I've NEVER rushed to get the latest version, I've always waited until it had been out a while. Example: I didn't make the switch from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro until Service Pack 4 was available and proven to not have any major bugs. I started way back with MS-DOS 4.01, then to MS-DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, NT 4 Workstation, Win 2000, Win XP Pro SP-4, and Win 10 Pro on my own machines, though I've had to work with PCs and laptops running MS-DOS 1.0 to Win 95, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Vista, Win Me, Win 7, and Win 8, and servers running Win NT Server, Win 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and up to present.

[@rockpie]

there was an *official* service pack 4?

[@ronaldlebeck9577]

@@rockpie Not by Microsoft, no. SP3 was the last they put out, though there was one made by a former MS employee that had all of the security updates up to the point that all support for XP was terminated. I had all of the "official" Service Packs from Microsoft for XP Pro. I was part of the Microsoft Partner Program when I was still running my own IT business (I'm retired now).

[@rockpie]

@@ronaldlebeck9577 oh, ok

[@TheTimeProphet]

Another good reason not to downgrade to windows 11.

[@reyg6399]

You mean upgrade.

[@TheTimeProphet]

@@reyg6399 No I know what I meant. Why would I want an OS that looks like a Mac, spies on you more than any other OS.

[@h.k_arnav6830]

grow up kid ​@@reyg6399

[@shaunrichards744]

You’re correct, first day windows 11 came out the centre icons position , the colour scheme and curved corners I thought I was on a Mac.

[@h.k_arnav6830]

@@reyg6399 grow up kiddddd

[@Vialli100.]

I do Windows Insider testing and have not had a problem at all with Windows 11, I have had that enabled for months without problems..

[@adriancoanda9227]

insider channel has already the lates even before release most of OS problems that some people are affected is because 3 thing 1 malware on the system 2 bad hardware 3 bad drivers if all those are not existent you can even be in canary insider build ( Alpha ) in those build are bugs indeed but most of them are GUI related that some buttons wont react or missing label or misplacement but even canary there are stages before that the so called internal builds where only Microsoft devs have access

[@AntonYadrov777]

I quit being an Insider in 2018. Utter BS quality of Insider builds was just too much to tolerate without getting an aneurism. Maybe 11 has it better like you say, but I have no "officially" compatible hardware, so sticking with 10 22H2 on all my machines.

[@jakehildebrand1824]

​@@adriancoanda9227Windows 11 is just bad

[@erikferguson71]

Windows updates also like to go in and turn on settings that you have previously disabled. Go in and block that stuff from the firewall as well.

[@gwapachickph]

I have just checked my Windows 10 and it was turned on, so I've turned it off. Thanks Chris. 👍👍

[@user-ps2nn5pj4g]

Speaking from experience: be sure to go back every time MS pushes updates to make sure it's not turned back on.

[@jakehildebrand1824]

Bad news. It doesn't actually stop anything, Microsoft still forces most updates upon you automatically overnight.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

I've had over a dozen crashes on Windows 11 since upgrading my laptop, and i haven't had a blue screen in around 2 years on my much older Windows 10 device, so it seems like Windows 11 is very unstable, and i had to repair my drive after a recent crash.

[@peterdobson3435]

I think this is an issue mainly with optional updates that are best left uninstalled. Those are the ones that tend to be buggy. I've always had this setting turned off in order to avoid those early adopter issues with those specific updates. I think it is a good practice to do that.

[@bikeny]

Thank you for the info. I am happy to report that my Windows 10 laptop had both settings disabled.

[@thebigmarvinski]

i had this turned off since a cumulative update almost bricked my PC

[@larysid]

Thank you Sir!! So what do you propose regarding RECEIVE UPDATES FOR OTHER MS PRODUCTS? Is it ok to have the switch on?

[@waffle911]

I've worked on a lot of machines and I've never seen this get turned on either by default or automatically as part of an update. I've only seen it get turned in intentionally or after being asked when manually installing a preview update.

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Mines still off - but did check to make sure, im never in a rush to get the newest version until its proven to work.

[@MrBewbielover]

Mine was off by default when I clean installed Windows 10 then updated to 11.

[@carabara3947]

Thanks Man Just Bought A GeekomA7 With Win 11 Pro Installed So Plenty Of Fine Tuning To Do Nice And Quiet Taking Up Very Little Space Love It

[@dafyddthomas7299]

Thanks for the tips - checked my settings and made sure these were AUTO turned off

[@DougguoD]

So, end of life service update stoppage is a good thing ? 🤔 I'm happy with Win 10 and NOT looking forward to a forced update to Win 11 😬

[@user-hv9sg5pl8b]

Linux - that was my solution to the Microsoft pressure to "Upgrade". LOL

[@DougguoD]

@@user-hv9sg5pl8b Probably thank MicroSoft for making Linux more doable now 😼

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

Currently, I'm using windows because I've not gotten the nerve to switch wholesale yet. But, I have a PC set up and ready to go with Mint, that I've already customized, and added most of my programs to. Once I get the nerve, or this PC finally bites it, I'm swapping over. Genuinely, linux is the best option. Maybe not from a professional standpoint (I can't run ACAD on linux), but from a user freedom perspective, it is.

[@DougguoD]

@@galvanizeddreamer2051 I've done a scripted Raspberry Pi setup and the LInux thing looks pretty daunting from that 😱Perhaps the GUI versions are simpler 😕

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

​@@DougguoD Mint, the distro I am switching to, does have a lot of GUI elements, and I will say is much easier to use than older linux impressions, at least in my case. I actually feel like it's easier to use than Windows, in some cases. These have likely extended to other distros as well, so you may find similar experiences on something like Ubuntu, I've just not checked. External drives mount automatically (as in thumbdrives will just show up, no need to do some crazy command line to mount it). And if you are OK using Open Source software, then getting programs from a package manager is more like an app-store on your phone than manually installing things (but you still can install via tarball or other methods if the program isn't on a repo.). I do suggest always searching the program in question, because Flatpak versions of software are getting updated, but massively older versions of that software are still available as non-Flatpak distributions, and the Flatpak versions don't often get recommended when you open your package manager. However, all that other complex stuff is still there, for when the more streamlined user experience isn't applicable, such as compiling programs locally. Settings files for your system are also still mostly in text format, rather than GUIs, which I admit is still confusing if you don't know what you are doing. Regardless of the GUI stuff tho, I do suggest learning the Command Line stuff, just so you have it in your back pocket. I've used small parts of it in Windows stuff, because I use GCC and Pandoc on Windows, which both work on the command line.

[@SiixCurses]

I've had my PC with windows 11 three months, and currently am in a BSOD block. I can't restart and uninstall windows 11, I can't access restore points, and worstly, I can't even boot in safe mode. Current error code is "critical process died." Started as "hypervisor error" then "kmode exception not handled" then "driver irql not less or equal."

[@The_DreadStorm]

Heheh... Been running on Win7 since XP was abandoned. Never downgraded to 8x/10/11, and have no intentions of doing so. Within a year, I'll have my own network up and running and will only use a Linux box for Internet. At that time, my network will have everything I need to keep things alive and still be quite productive. Plus, I have 3 machines each with multiple OSs on them, more or less maxed out (removable media, RAID arrays, software suites, etc). But the OS collections began at DOS 3.3/Win2.11 and stopped at Win7. Not going any higher. After Win7 the level of spyware became unbearable. And now, "Oh, look! Spying is now a FEATURE! YAY!" I'm not a fan of Linux, but for internet browsing, it should be fine. I'll keep my valuables offline from now on, thankyouverymuch. heh

[@jenserikolsen3515]

I made the mistake having all these settings on.. I got windows generic gfx driver which meant games using open gl didn't work and windows took ownership of my amd gfx driver suite making it unaccessible.

[@michaeltodd2012]

Thanks. That "Get me up to date" must have rebooted my PC yesterday as most of my tray apps weren't running. I turned it off.

[@stonesfan285]

How about just dropping Windows all together? I moved to a Linux Mint host with Windows 7 in a VM and it does 100% of what I need.

[@CommissarChaotic]

That's what's hard man, I don't suppose any casual users would want to bother doing as much. I myself just have no time to learn the ins and outs of Linux and also any alternative FOSS stuff for what I use right now although I am starting to just for that reason because of my concerns. Like I did try to convert my old laptop OS to Linux because of the benefits of taking up less resources so as to speed it up but my family who are the ones using it just couldn't _get_ it and they simply didn't have the time to as well and asked me to turn it back to Windows 7. It's kind of like what the Godot people themselves said, Godot isn't rebound Unity, it's a whole different game engine.

[@wyldwiisel9126]

Most gamers are stuck using windows I hope one day steam will roll out the steam deck os on modern PCs

[@stanzacosmi]

@@wyldwiisel9126 steamdeck is just arch linux with a theme and a system that you can't modify at it's base

[@bestyoutubernonegraternumber1]

Because LInux is dead. It went from 5% market share to 1.2% market share of personal computers. The code of conduct chased away every white hat talent in favor of degenerate leftist rainbow boy hackers who demand you call them something else or else you get banned and canceled in the community. No thanks. Developers are gone. Only script kiddies remain.

[@mpdavis731]

Makes me glad my only Windows is in a VM, and all I use it for is to login to work. I always keep a full disk file copy, and normal snapshots. Cheers!

[@dennisjaron1644]

Does the time take into consideration the time zone i.e. eastern pacific,etc

[@bleakyfinder2692]

Yes on Win 10.

[@davidjamgochian]

Privacy & security > General ??How do I do that ?

[@i-love-space390]

Windows feature updates only make the product worse. As soon as I can guarantee that I don't need some Windows software for work, Linux will be my ONLY OS.

[@silfrido1768]

Now a days the best thing to do is to get a custom os. it makes the set up process a breeze

[@jamesferrans1233]

Thanks, That's Good information

[@cwtek1]

You're Welcome! If you haven't done so already please don't forget to subscribe to my KZbin Channel, its Free and easy to do so and you will find out about all my latest videos.

[@BeauTyeVideos]

good advice - thanks very much - will help my youtube channel for sure

[@zorggn]

Considering the fact that i managed to brick my windows update (unintentionally) while trying to completely disable its automatisms, since there's no official way to completely disable it/ set it to manual, i guess this will never be a concern for me.

[@ijustlikeitagain]

Good catch and advice.

[@johnnyosullivan9252]

I've allways had it on with no problems. If something were to happen there's always a restore point or an image backup...

[@lenny108]

Two months ago my win11 PC crashed and was completely dead. No peep, no BIOS, and no lights. Only the fans were running for five seconds when turning it on. There was no way to bring this machine back, guess there was a meltdown within the mainboard caused by malicious software. .

[@rjackdaw]

I always disabled them group policy upon gaining access to desktop on fresh install

[@novaflame4812]

holy crap, thanks for the save, I just checked my pc and boom, there it was, turned on, I just turned it off.

[@Barbarapape]

Never leave automatic updates switched on on any device no matter what O/S it runs on. Updates when first released can and do cause more issues than they fix, leving you with a broken device. Wait a few months before installing them or you will regret it.

[@XquizitRush]

Thanks for this.

[@rockpie]

i have it disabled through the group policy editor

[@fido139]

22H2 is Windows 10 last update. I always delay updates at least a month.

[@riitacat5646]

thank you!!

[@jayjaygeez]

In my experience, this is always off by default. That said, good recommendation for those who have it on for whatever reason.

[@PubRunner]

I have had that turned on for years and never had an issue as have all my users and never had an issue not once.

[@sydonthenet6631]

I use Win 10. It's been there for at least 6 months. I saw it, and turned it straight OFF, as window update can, and often does, 'Screw things up'...

[@sueelliott4793]

Another MS fail is the new Outlook mail. Its so slow to open and its in the cloud so I know that all my privacy is compromised. Can someone not sue Microsoft for their privacy breaches?

[@ThePrieto1000]

I remember the windows 10 update that made will windows turn black screen ... The motherboard was fucked

[@warrenpuckett4203]

I changed out Win 10. Now the old lady is PO'd. Her windows games don't work. I switched to Linux. Yes it would run Win 11. Got tired of the constant useless updates. I also switched out the 8Gb GPU. Do not need that anymore either. To a older 2Gb with less heat. I got off the gaming update train too. Does office work just fine also. Now my 8 core CPU fan is quiet. NO swap file. Rarely even have a core exceed 25% BUT she really hates the 16 character log into the hard drive. Plus another to log on to Linux. I whined until I told her buy a Apple. I do not maintain Apple devices. Oh and the 2012 desktop and 27 inch monitor. Works fine. Update a 2012 mac? Good luck.

[@ayneSFilms]

For the past 6 months due to work I’ve been mostly using Linux (pop os) as my daily driver and once a week I was booting into windows to play some star citizen. After recent “feature update” my windows decided not to boot again (I hear the sound that it’s booted into system however the screen shows motherboard logo and spinning circle), I didn’t even bother fixing it and booted back into my Linux partition. Personally I think Linux will cover 90% of any pc user daily tasks. It’s just not worth my time to constantly roll drivers tweak registry and pray that I’ll be able to boot my system tomorrow. On every system I had, either prebuilt or the once that I built myself I always at some point had something happening with windows that forced me to completely reinstall it.

[@martingolding4951]

My pc never crashes last time I saw a blue screen would about 10 years ago. On an old pc I had I bought a new one in 2019

[@LCJammer]

eh i have it on no issues with drivers and updates. this is probably not a big deal for normal users. this is a big deal for coporate users and it but then again they should be on win 10 or 11 pro with tight global settings to lockdown the pc from doing updates etc.

[@GugureSux]

W10 IOT LTSC Enterprise edition 2021 + Activator + OOSU10. No updates, EVER, unless I let it. Not even notifications. It's a bliss.

[@greevous]

Never had this automatically activated on any install of win11 and I've been servicing many machines.

[@billyguthrie3176]

You now for the most part being a seeker i get new things sooner than others an that's mostly been a good thing. However in loo of the fiasco with the windows 10 update that screwed up peoples machine and microsoft anouncing that they can't fix it i think i agree it's a good idea to turn get the latest updates off.

[@djsatane]

First mistake was not turning off update from windows 10 to 11 to begin with.

[@Amygondor]

Reminder for the submissive people out there that you can lie to windows "active hours" and set the whole day as active. Its perfecly legal and ok

[@amosscoxschannel4083]

Wind 19 has it too

[@Ezackiel1]

subbed ^^ very pertinent

[@cwtek1]

Thank you!

[@suelynch]

I am running windows 10.That feature came out 2 months ago. I turned it off the moment I saw it. I also turned off windows insider. As I don't play games I also got rid of the xbox crap.

[@Dracose]

I keep that option on so i dont have to manually check for update every single day to get updates. I want my computer to automatically update any security updates, without having to do it manually and learning it even exists

[@cwtek1]

I will automatically still check for updates with it switched off its just you will only get the updates after they have been tested by other users.

[@matthewstott3493]

I have had this feature break my Windows 11 system more than once. You are basically volunteering to be a beta tester without being an Insider. It's not as bleeding edge new as Insider is but it's an intermediary pre-production release. In the corporate world we control when the updates are applied. We test them on IT volunteers who run through a test plan a week prior or a day or two before we deploy an emergency update to fix a critical vulnerability. As mentioned, Microsoft have frequently released updates only to have to pull them because they broke many thousand PC's. Then re-release a week or two later with it fixed. Apple is guilty of this as well. It even happens with Linux. You might expect this from a rolling release like Arch. But Just the other day, my normally robust Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04 broke my LXD containers after a seemingly small update. I ended up needing to upgrade to LTS 22.04 to resolve the problem. Luckily that worked. Otherwise I would have been restoring from backups.

[@jackie48363]

Wish i'd seen this a week ago. Mine crashed never to boot again😢. Tried everything, you videos, forums etc. Had to bite the bullet and buy a new one unfortunately.

[@greycell2442]

Ya, I've done a rollback in Win10 before. It sucks. Mental block but I think I actually did a re-install, wrote a handy app to block or unblock. Win11 - why I use Linux now. Single reason, other than the bad TPM joke to get people to buy new.

[@leozar69]

I'm skipping win 11. Hopefully win 12 gives control to the users.

[@minefoxc4015]

If your .ogg files cause your pc to crash when you open their folder, or right click them individually, uninstall the web media extension app by microsoft. It's utter bullshit that it's bundled with your pc and is completely useless since you can use any app to open them or your browser.

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

0:42 Many such cases

[@arfurdaley63]

My Windows 10 Laptop has this turned on too!

[@sixthguardian6914]

My AMD a8 7650k doesnt even have anti virus for 8 years. im using windows 10 and still fine even opening adult sites.

[@rrasch8125]

Switched from a Mac to Windows for a few weeks recently and realised in my day to day life I was getting stressed more than usual. The worst OS ever made. Random and mysterious errors, Layers of prehistoric settings hidden behind an aesthetically messy front end, fonts and app layout UI sizes all over the place, the list goes on…Sooo glad I have gone back to my beautiful Macbook Pro!

[@adriancoanda9227]

y don't know pal what you have installed but y use even Canary inside build ( alpha ) and y never encountered such you mean you have been running windows for arm on Parallels ? ringt well amigo y can install windows 11 arm64 image directly on mac no dual boot parallels or such obviously you need some Knowledge to make it work everything is worse on unsupported hardware or if you don know how to set to your needs what is whirred man y run windows Linux android and mac os on the same machine and y rely mean they boot at the same time in hyper-v and y still don encounter whirred thing . y even done nested virtualization setups vm in vm in vm until you cant store data on the disk but no issues amigo

[@rrasch8125]

@@adriancoanda9227 I had a Windows laptop for few weeks - NOT virtualisation with Mac. Windows is a shit OS. You spend all of your time tinkering to make it work for you and still it’s rubbish. A Mac just works and the OS is beautiful to look at.

[@adriancoanda9227]

@@rrasch8125 well my setup is not there are pros that mac os lacks for example the install speed, windows snap windows has the ability to arenge the windows layout based on predefined layouts you pick one and all other windows automatically arrange in place that on a mac you need third party apps , and other things that windows is natively better y am the usability gui y don see usually the desktop

[@Rendell4835]

can only stop updates for 1 week. Cannot just turn it off

[@ripvanwinkle9648]

Mine is still turned off.

[@fr34k09]

him: "I'm gonna click the start menu down there at th-" me: *just hits win + i to quickly go to settings* but yeah mine was already disabled but good vid though

[@bobjoatmon1993]

Gina be real honest here: anyone who is older than a toddler knows to save early and often. And only a complete cretin would get up from their machine even to walk across the room to the coffee machine without saving, let alone go to lunch. So NO Sympathy for anyone who loses work because they didn't save. Only two types of people, those who've lost data and those who are going to lose data.

[@powerpc6037]

It doesn't have to be a document that's not saved for a while. Imagine playing an MMORPG while having updates turned on. I had this happen to me on my Win7 machine about 13 years ago. It took me an hour to find 6 people in the game to run a dungeon and this specific dungeon can only be run twice a week so pretty damn annoying if something happens, which it did. Once inside that dungeon and me being the healer of the entire group, Windows suddenly shut down my game without even asking to install updates and reboot several times since this was the first time the updater ran on that pc. This took over an hour and everyone's dungeon run was messed up due to this. I've turned off updates completely (not even setting them to manual) and my pc was still fine after 13 years without any updates. No security updates, no driver updates, nothing. So I don't really see a benefit in those forced updates. I keep em turned off any way I can. Win11 turns them back on behind your back but I now set my LAN connection as "metered" so the updater thinks I have to pay for every megabyte downloaded and it won't download anything now. :p

[@canaisyoung3601]

Already off on my laptop.

[@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l]

Oh, yeh I turned that off pretty early on my dude. No-one wants a buggy day one patch. I'd be more concerned if anyone had it turned on to be honest.

[@Nikioko]

That is some sort of benefit risk evaluation. If you switch off automatic updates when they are available, you get a security gap. To receive security updates as soon as possible, you want to have that switched on.

[@adriancoanda9227]

that setting exist only in home and pro SKU of windows anyway the enable flighting is hard coded on other editions

[@TrainsAndWellbeing]

That switch is a little confusing but the emphasis is that turning this off will not affect security; this switch applies only to feature and non-security updates so another words the kind of updates that are most likely to cause problems with production software and hardware. Providing you don't pause windows update this switch will not prevent security updates from downloading and actually you can't disable these even if you wanted to.

[@nadtz]

That setting doesn't affect security updates and it's disabled out of the box with enterprise.

[@powerpc6037]

I ran Win7 for 13 years with ALL updates turned off completely since day 1 and never had security issues. I did have a separate virusscanner install along with a firewall and never saw any hints about being invaded by a hacker or whatever. So on my Win11 pc now, I also have updates turned off along with my LAN connection being set to "metered" to prevent Windows from re-enabling updates behind my back and installing them anyways.

[@oracledelta37]

:Insert any meme with ANY Microsoft, Bing, MS-Edge, Copilot or Windows logo shooting itself into foot/leg/arm/torso/head etc.:

[@trickhayproductions]

YES THIS IS IN WINDOWS 10 ALREADY. I SEEN IT ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO. I HAVE IT OFF.

[@WELSHENTERPRISE]

I found that they change stuff that I have already change.

[@Maxume]

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with the shenanigans of the compendium of spyware which is Windows 11.

[@KC-pf4tj]

Windows 11 bugs has crashed 2 of my machine! I’ve given up on Microsoft and have moved over to Linux 100% and will never look back!

[@Obasuechti]

still turned off onmy win10 by default

[@johnanthonyalberola6252]

👍

[@Pizzpott]

All these were already off but I've disabled Windows Updates in as many ways as I've been able to find. I'm not worried about viruses as I have my own protection and my software works perfectly well for me as-is, so I see not point in changing, just like my main desktop which has Windows 7 installed - it all works, I never bother updating any of the software after they re no longer supported. I find it disgusting to be honest that Microsoft basically forces updates, no longer is there an option to stop updates or even worse to choose which ones it finds one want's too install.

[@powerpc6037]

you can set your connection as "metered", which blocks the updater from running as it thinks you have to pay per megabyte downloaded while you may have broadband like most of us. Now my Win11 machine lists there are updates but won't even download them. And I won't install them either as I didn't even have issues while running Win7 for 13 years with updates turned off. So I don't really get what those pesky updates are all about. For a simple gaming pc, you're most likely never a target for a hacker so those security updates have very little effect.

[@eckelolini]

Laying off more regression testers are you Billie?

[@ronhilliard8863]

Windows regardless of the version will always be in permanent beta testing

[@moo-mooha]

[@Jessycakeboy]

it doesnt take 8 minutes to tell use to change one setting

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Switch to Linux so we can all combat Microsoft a lot of stuff is already in software manager for you to download no complicated tasks needed unless you want to weak up your computer or install specific drivers and software really not that difficult.

[@Myself-yh9rr]

Windows 10 is very similar to Windows 11. Same drivers for the most part!

[@basspig]

If your machine is a production machine it shouldn't be connected to the internet at all.

[@boines]

Who leaves the pc on and logged in for 15 mins is thier problem. Bc if logged out/locked this does nothing at all. Just tested.

[@powerpc6037]

When not in use, I turn off my pc entirely. Let's see if Microsoft can install updates when my machine isn't even turned on. :p

[@adriancoanda9227]

that settings doesn't exist in enterprise versions that slider wont do anything windows deploys updated to regions y always install updates a soon as possible with no restart parameter updates don't break things pcs are already broken before the update arrives and most crashed are repeated to broken drivers check the hardware is is windows 11 compliant before you buy but that is also not verry reliant since direr devs to cover more ground the say app X is supported from win 7 til 11 but that is a joke that means some drivers will work in backwards compatibility mode there is the issue not windows

[@CotyRiddle]

it does exsist in enterprise edition of windows 11. How do I know. Becasue I am running enterprise....

[@adriancoanda9227]

@@CotyRiddle me to that is deactivated by default at least in EU region

[@invisi-bullexploration2374]

Ida know man. With the way things are going with state actors with entire warehouses full of kids whose job is to digitally bugger you... If there is some kind of security dealio I want it. And I am guessing this is why it's turned on by default. I am not under any illusions that should tensions escalate thousands and thousands of PCs will become unusable no matter what but every little bit helps. So I guess this is what you would call a 'sh*& sandwich' You can either suck up any bugs MS has by being tagged as an early adopter or you can take your chances when and if China moves on the islands.

[@goaway3717]

So basically the same sh*t Microsoft is always trying to pull. I check that setting at least weekly to make certain no update "fixed" it for me.

[@TheSpiral01]

"DO THIS NOW!", proceeds to take 8 minutes to tell us WHAT to do!💀💩

[@samuelgibson8454]

I do all that I can to keep any form of telemetry data gathering @($)$&! from my system, it's called a Personal Computer for a reason. Thankfully my system doesn't meet the requirements to update to 11.

[@jefthereaper]

So in other words, I can keep using my 10 until its end of life in a few years, and by that time I need to learn how to use Linux as Windows essentially destroyed itself and is currently in the process of beating the left over pieces with a hammer. Why are all big company's these years destroying their company's? there is no way they are all this incompetent right?

[@egcdarktowernz5574]

run tron it will turn it of .

[@Stuntzii1]

why would u have 11 its like 8