Hello everyone. Recently, I have been plagued by my computer being forced to upgrade to windows 10 version 1709. I want to stay on the 1607 version. Killing "Windows10UpgraderApp.exe" works when I am at the PC, but when away and left on, it will upgrade to 1709 without hesitation. I have been trawling around in event logs and task manager, and that is where I found a reference to a program called UpdateAssistant.exe in C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant. In explorer, there are two executables in the folder, as well as Task Scheduler tasks in their xml format. From these files, it is revealed that the tasks that run the windows 10 updater are located in Task Scheduler Library\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\. There are three tasks - UpdateAssistant, UpdateAssistantCalendarRun and UpdateAssistantWakeupRun. Disable all three of them (right click + disable). Looking at the triggers of the tasks, they are set to run UpdateAssistant.exe at pretty much any time possible - At logon, on idle, on unlock and lock, and at system start up as well as when an event is logged. Since I have disabled these, I have not been pestered with Windows 10 upgrades. I hope this solves your problem as well as it did mine.
Set Automatice Updates policy to notication, and/or set connection as metered, and use WUMT or wushowhide.diagcab to hide unwanted updates
WUShowHide does not stop this because it is not done through windows update - windows launches the setup in a silent-ish mode using the tasks shown above.
Setting LAN to metered and hide the Feature Update doesn't help, i tested this to no avail. Since 1607 will go EOL in april the nagging became more aggressive it seems.
Why this chemistry, if you can go to the Windows Update settings, choose Advanced settings and disable updates. Works perfectly and without any problems.
I know, but if you hid these "upgrade" updates, you would not get UpdateAssistant in the first place Code: KB4056254 OS Remediation System Service KB4033631 Compatibility Appraiser KB4023814 Update Assistant tool KB4023057 Remediation Shell anyway, i think this might block the upgrade Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CreatorsUpdatePrivacySettings] "AllowCreatorsUpdate"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows10Upgrader\Volatile] "BlockWUUpgrades"=dword:00000001
It's the only regular CBS update KB4023814 and KB4023057 are MSI packages KB4056254 is a manual service that get installed been noted in ver 1703
What's your edition? Pro/Enterprise/education can use group policy to block OS updates. Home/Core can't.
I was very unfortunate to download the KB4023814 yesterday. (Apparently pushed on feb 15, 2018 for people running on v 1607). The patch is irreversible, well played, microballs. This should work however. Run them one by one in an elevated command prompt. Every time you patch windows, make sure that you run these commands. Either manually or from batch file. Code: schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\UpdateAssistant" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\UpdateAssistantCalendarRun" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\UpdateAssistantWakeupRun" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Schedule Scan" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Schedule Retry Scan" /Disable Code: REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CreatorsUpdatePrivacySettings" /v "AllowCreatorsUpdate" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows10Upgrader\Volatile" /v "BlockWUUpgrades" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade" /v "AllowOSUpgrade" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f
Yes. That's the first thing you do (it will delete C:\windows10upgrade + the Update Assistant). However, you need to disable the schtaks services aswell, or else update assistant is reinstalled in a matter of seconds and folder C:\windows10upgrade is recreated. Micro balls evolved this time, with a much more agressive updateassistent patch. If this folder exists, it should also be deleted. C:\Windows\UpdateAssistantV2
1709 is probably bloated with tons of ads and new snake oil features. No point upgrading at this point. Not when I've perfectly debloated 1607
Emphasis on 'probably'. Majority can be deactivated like in earlier builds (see MSMG toolkit and alike). Since my system is online i will avoid running an unsupported build and switch soon.
What i did: Turned off the internet (unpplug the ethernet cable) Did a fresh install of an old Win 10 version (1703 on my case) Then, on desktop i'd open wushowhide and plugin the ethernet cable back I choose to hide the 1709 resource update or whatever It never come back to bother me again.