Windows 10: MS Auto Updates Constantly Corrupt my Windows Installation due to clashes with other Apps....

As per the title, I'm having constant Issues with Windows Auto Updates corrupting my PC due to it performing updates whilst data erasure Apps are running. Every few months I have to re-install Windows on my desktop.

Isn't it time MS gave advanced users the ability to turn off auto checking / downloading / installing and let advanced users manage these updates themselves?

I'm going to be forced to switch all of my pc's over to Apple if this continues, which I don't really want to do.

One way of giving control to advanced users would be allow auto checking / downloading / installing to be turned off by command line as an administrator only. I'm sure command line especially run as admin, would be beyond joe average who buys a pc for email, word or playing basic games. Whilst allowing advanced users and serious gamers to choose to check for and install updates manually.

The scenario that constantly breaks my desktop pc that MS haven't allowed for with auto updates is as follows:

Secure Erasing of Data

Many people who either work in data sensitive employments or are home users who are security aware, periodically run secure erase Apps such as East Tec Eraser. The problem here is Windows Update conflicts with these Apps as these Apps automatically reboot once the Windows based erasure process is finished to erase locked data in DOS when the PC restarts giving themselves access to files that are locked by the system whilst Windows is running. The issue here is they reboot the pc without warning at the end of the Windows based erasure procedure.

In the meantime, Windows Update will have been downloading an enforced Windows Update in the background. As the PC reboots under the Data Erasure Procedure (something that cannot be stopped once the reboot has started), Windows also announces "Do not turn off your pc whilst Windows is installing updates", again this cannot be stopped because in both instances the pc is already in the shut down screen.

So Windows Update partially installs the updates, then the Secure Eraser App reboots the PC, at which point Windows continues installing the updates. Problem is, the secure data eraser is programmed to also run at this point and delete any temporary files etc it cannot get access to whilst Windows is running. So you have a scenario where Windows is trying to install updates, no doubt using temporary files and data it has created and at the same time, the Security App is deleting some of these files thereby corrupting the installation process!!!

The result is Windows reboots to desktop, and you then start to realise over time a whole host of processes are no longer working properly. eg after the last Windows Update, I found on my keyboard in any internet browser, the £ sign is replaced by " and # is replaced by the ". Many of the links in Windows Admin no longer work but come up as invalid paths, there's no Windows Backup history so no way of rolling the pc back etc.

Come on MS, this type of issue should be foreseeable - that advanced users might be running apps that reboot the pc automatically and erase or alter data files on reboot.

It's time to give advanced users back control of Windows Update.

It's neither reasonable or fair to expect users to have to re-install Windows EVERY time there's a Windows update, which is inevitably what happens.

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The nine files that are updated all have to do with the Auto-Updater itself.
The article lists them all. No big deal.

I run auto-update anyway, so BRING ON THE NEW UPDATES !!!
I have yet to experience any problems from MS updates on my XP network.

 

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