Windows 10: How to permanently stop Windows 10 Professional from updating

Hello


[ first a long context explanation ]

This does it. This update broke just too many things and I don't even have the option for a rollback. The only difference between malware and Microsoft products is that you rarely pay for a Malware infection in advance.


Now I'm an admin with over a decade of experience, before some of you wanna-be-useful-I-read-one-Manual hacks start talking: Go away, adults are talking here.


To explain why I'm so upset: I'm currently on long term sick leave with a fairly serious illness I may or may not survive. Until a few days ago I couldn't even sit at my computer and even now I have to have special arrangements. The computer is ~4 years old with sufficient hardware update to move it from normal computer class to a server class regarding power. The machine is used to entertain me. Or, when I use a non-Microsoft Operating System, for programming and playing around with VMs and other similar fairly useful stuff. And yes, I'm dead serious. Ever since Windows 10 broke some of my hardware I'm not using this abomination for anything than playing games or I picked up video editing as a hobby so that I can turn the rest of old family recordings into digital ones.


[ Situation description ]

Yesterday, after 6 months, I was finally able to "sit down" and use my personal computer with a Windows 10 Professional license. When Windows started up, it informed me it just finished installing an update and asked me to set up nonsense I don't want tu use. So I skipped the setup and I went about my business. Within 15 minutes of me actually daring to use my computer Windows started dropping fullscreen applications to inform me that it wants another update.


In the evening I installed the update, shut down the computer and went to sleep. Now I booted up, the installation finished, I can't use the services why I'm actually even using Windows, namely Steam and GoG [ Good old Games ], because said services can't connect to the internet.


Which is really interesting, because yesterday everything regarding this worked..


And since I'm fully aware that the request from the first part of this post will be ignored and all you "I think I'm helpful"-yuppies will start spewing nonsense:

- YES. I did go to the Control Center -> Update and Security -> Recovery ... and the "Go back to previous version of Windows 10" option is not available to me.

If this is the only advice you are capable of giving, then don't even bother replying to this thread, or at least to me. I will ignore you, because talking to ignoramuses like you is extremely bad for my blood pressure. In other words: your stupidity pisses me off. And this time I won't just sarcastically pretend that I didn't see what you people call "a manual".


[ The request ]

I don't want any updates. I'm using this OS for purely entertainment purposes. I just want to spend the time when I'm unable to work because I'm in severe pain, at least somewhat entertained thinking about something else than being sick of a terminal illness.


I know my way around computers well enough to know what I'm saying and requesting. I'm asking Microsoft to respect my will as a paying customer who understands and accepts the risks of this action.


And I don't care that normal users break their machines or whatever other reasoning. I can generally fix mine. I'm talking about this problem here now because I don't feel like spending the time when I'm feeling excruciating pain also fixing mistakes someone else made. STOP PUSHING YOUR MALWARE UPDATES TO ME. If you won't, I'll simply switch from politely asking to disabling the feature entirely, document it, write a script for it and publish it so that any schmuck can get back control over their devices.


Sidenote: During writing of this post My Windows Update Status changed from "Everything is peachy" to "There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: 0x8000ffff" <<< And THIS IS PRECISELY THE REASON WHY I DON'T WANT YOUR BROKEN **** UPDATES. Go away and leave me alone!!! If I wrote code like that, I'd have died of hunger by now.


I'm quite aware that Micro$oft fired most of the 3 testing teams and that now updates don't get checked properly, because of lack of manpower. Plenty of your ex-employees talk in private conversations. So I know that by disabling Windows Update I'll actually be protecting my machine from you breaking it even further.


I paid for the license, but I still own the rest of my computer, whatever your license says - even your weasel licenses are subject to local laws. And I don't live in the US, so I actually do have considerable buyer protection.


Give me the option to control my own device or I'll make it by force. I'm paying YOU, not the other way around. You don't get to dictate the terms under which I'm allowed to pay you money. Whatever you may think, not even your updates can mess around with a frozen VM image. And if I have to, I'll switch to using that for the time being.

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qubit finally upgrades to Windows 10 permanently!

Check out the link in Mussels signature. There he has listed a couple programs that stop that, as well as a windows update program. They all work flawlessly.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

That doesn't stop windows update from grabbing them on next run, at least it didn't back in the RTM days. It simply stops a secondary process from installing them immediately.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

How to stop Windows 10 from automatically installing new and updated drivers constantly (particularly for GPU users with stable drivers)

• Right click "My Computer"
• Click "Properties"
• Click on "Hardware" tab
• Click "Device Installation Settings"
• Tick the "No, let me choose what to do"
• Tick "Never install driver software from Windows Update"