• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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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          1 year ago

          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.

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      1 year ago

      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.