i've seen a lot of people complaining about windows automatic updates, and honestly, i think it's ridiculous. go to computer management, services and applications, services, and stop and disable windows update service. no more automatic updates. how hard was that? and for all you tin foil hat folks who will rebut with "windows turns it back on automatically" I have to say you're crazy. i did this 10 days ago and windows hasn't turned it back on and if it could it would when i try to manually update which it does not... this is what you will see when you try to manually update after disabling the service. you will see the last time updates were scanned for / installed otherwise.
It's not that easy. See my post and the answer : in DWS topic, post 112 and 113 And i still couldn't get the answer of this : post 115 bTw, what's the reason for limitins links ? I can't even post mydigitallife forum links. Someone post these links please.
That isn't the issue, the issue is not being able to hide specific updates, like you can in previous OSs, so it's either none, or all, no choice Or use that pathetic MS tool....
See, that's just my point. There is absolutely no need for any elaborate "blocking tools", disabling of automatic updates, and especially workarounds like that when all you have to do is set WU to auto-install security updates only. It's one simple checkbox.
thanks for clarifying the issue. this is a pain in the ass. i'll just not update until the first service pack is released, if there is one in the future. to be quite honest i've never really believed the windows update briefs about all the hotfixes, i mean, who is really gonna check to see if they do what they say they do? how can we really know that they are not ways of making us more vulnerable instead of safer?
Why not install Windows Update Minitools in my sig, you can have it set to notify you of updates, hide the ones you do not want, they stay hidden until you bring them out of retirement. It's a neat tool.