It turns out it's not just enterprise that you have to have to stop updates It's a certain SKU of enterprise that has the ltsb branch option Extremely disappointed right now Update: I'm targeting the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB N 2015 ISO But nobody's leaked it I have the KMS key for it though
If it's possible to disable windows update service in win10 pro, then it would be possible to manually run .msu updates right? (WHD)
Stopping Windows Update under Enterprise is as simple as using gpedit or simply killing the service or using the kill/reenable script posted elsewhere. The only difference with LTSB is that it can delay updates indefinitely. There's no way it is smart to keep updates turned off forever, and ifsomeone wants to do that they can do. They can also choose to turn them back on as they wish. Those are the options we have right now. EDIT: and if disabling driver updates via System Properties -> Hardware -> Device Installation settings (the same as ever) isn't doing it, try going into the Devices side of the control panel or Settings and turn off the "automatically get updates/info/blah about this device" stuff too.
I am also upgraded from win8.1 pro with media center to windows 10 pro and yes the windows update don't give you any option do select what updates to download and install it install what it wants and not what the user want. but that sucks. example I don't want the new NVidia driver from wu I want the official one from NVidia but wu will download the latest from wu. hope in the future they will ad a selection to user
Yeah, I figured this combo will work on Enterprise. When you say "stopped", you mean you can actually select which updates you want and when to install them? EDIT: Doesn't seem to work!
Too bad the updates will be downloaded and installed first. You can only hide *afterwards*, which is not a real solution i.m.o. It's really a shame Microsoft has adopted this new policy and didn't make an exception for the power users.
If you are using Wifi you can stop WU from downloading by going to Settings>Network & Internet>Advanced options>Metered connection and set to ON. Run Show/Hide troubleshooter first and hide the unwanted update(s). Then go to Settings>Update & security>Check for updates. Sometimes WU may have already found update(s) before you ran the troubleshooter and you may have a Download option showing. If this is the case then you need to stop the wuauserv service and then hit the Retry button and let WU search for updates again. Not exactly the best solution, but it has worked for me.
Compare that to the nice checkboxes next to updates in previous Windows versions... Too bad I'm not on wifi so that whole 'trick' doesn't apply to me anyway.
This tool doesn't allow you to select updates you don't want to download\install. Updates are always downloaded and installed. This tool only allows you to hide updates AFTER you've manually uninstalled them, so after the damage has been done.
How in this procedure are all the updates installed and then uninstalled after! The updates you don't want to install don't even show when you check for updates - after you have ran the troubleshooter. You have actually tried this troubleshooter - before you ran Win updates?
You hid it before you ran Win update right? Can you understand what is nuk talking about - all the update are downloaded and installed and then manually uninstalled after?
I think that's what he's saying...but I don't think he's correct, as the troubleshooter SEARCHES for Updates, meaning it has to be availble as an update for it to be hidden. I think Silverlight still shows up on it because it's considered a "recommended" update, which Win10 ignores right now. I don't know about hiding other updates (like critical ones) before installing them first, though.
Exactly yes. Which is exactly what it does, at no stage have I had to manually un-install any updates as you suggest. They simply don't show as available when I check for updates, unless I re-run the troubleshooter and un-hide previously hidden updates.
How do I prevent hardware updates from being downloaded and installed? I already have the right NVidia drivers installed and do not want them to be messed up or updated with some crappy ones. How do I make that happen?