You really can’t disable them on the latest versions of Windows. I disabled the automatic updates even in the registry. Last week it forced an update in the middle of the night to the newest version of 10 that has the God awful 11 taskbar.
You don’t update Windows “when you feel like it”, it does when it feels like it. Several times, after delaying the updates so many times because I knew it takes dozens of minutes to apply each time and I didn’t want that to happen as I often had to restart my PC or had to let it run in the background, Windows eventually forced me to update the next time I shut down my PC.
Yeah but I personally don’t want my PC to run at night at a random hour, even one I scheduled, because it requires your OS to constantly half-sleep to be able to boot itself, something I don’t want to be the case.
When I shut down my PC, I want it to be actually shut down.
And I love it. This is when you feel it’s your computer, not “this computer”
Meanwhile my windows computer wakes up from sleep in the middle of the night to update and starts a light show in my room.
You can’t easily deactivate that behavior.
It’s not really my computer, it’s Microsoft’s computer that they lend me.
@Tetsuo @vkirlin You could flip the power switch behind the tower to make sure the pc is completely turned off
some power supplies dont have that, but you can always unplug it.
unless its a laptop, then you can take the battery out, i guess
You realise you can very easily disable updates and just do them manually when you feel like it?
Or you can shut down the computer when you go to sleep, booting takes less than 30 seconds with a modern computer…
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You really can’t disable them on the latest versions of Windows. I disabled the automatic updates even in the registry. Last week it forced an update in the middle of the night to the newest version of 10 that has the God awful 11 taskbar.
wait… if theyre putting all the 11 features in 10, why does 11 even exist
You don’t update Windows “when you feel like it”, it does when it feels like it. Several times, after delaying the updates so many times because I knew it takes dozens of minutes to apply each time and I didn’t want that to happen as I often had to restart my PC or had to let it run in the background, Windows eventually forced me to update the next time I shut down my PC.
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I just have the updater scheduled for when I am asleep and it’s no problem.
Yeah but I personally don’t want my PC to run at night at a random hour, even one I scheduled, because it requires your OS to constantly half-sleep to be able to boot itself, something I don’t want to be the case. When I shut down my PC, I want it to be actually shut down.
Not if you have DDR5 and are coming from a cold boot. My desktop takes near two minutes to train the RAM before POST.
Or have an old mechanical drive booting. Uugghh such slow boots without the OS on an SSD.
Even more fun:
Weird. So my partner has the same problem but I don’t. Curious if you have a pre-built like they do?
No it’s my build and a free licence I got from an older windows version.
It’s just how it works. Windows sets up a timer on the bios to wake up the computer to perform the update.
The issue I had is that I only managed to stop that with a group policy.
Ah okay, it might be because I’m dual booting then, they aren’t. Good to know it does it through the bios tho, that gives me something to hunt