Windows 10: Selective Win10 Updates (as in Win7)

Hi

Last time I checked Win10 it was only possible to postpone installing certain Win updates that W10 found, nothing more. Is it EVER going to be possible on W10 to do as in W7 ... namely install only the Win updates that the user wishes to install? If yes - how?

Thank you! : )

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Win7 / Win10 dual boot only boots to Win10

I have a home build machine with a dual partition for booting either Win7 or Win10 selectable.

The order was Win7 followed by Win10 in the menu.

The machine would always display a screen where I could select either Win7 or Win 10. If I didn't select in time the default was the first in the menu which was Win7

Starting this evening the machine no longer displays the selection menu but instead boots immediately and directly to Win10.

What's wrong?

How can I fix this so it works the original way?

 

BIOS

Original OS Win7

Updated to OS Win10

Can I update the Win10 BIOS using Win7 update from hp.com?

 

That is a recurring issue already brought forward to MS.

 

Thank you for the reply. What's the progress on this issue, do u know?

I was hoping to hear from someone from Microsoft telling me whether or not they are EVER going to change this behaviour in Win10 or is it always gonna stay the way it is now.

 

They are steadfastly refusing to budge on this.

 

Hahahahah ... poor MS! Then that means they are steadfastly refusing to have me (and I'm sure millions others) use Win10 at all .... LOL !!!!!!!!!!

PS - can we at least on Win8.1 install only the updates we want or is it the same there as on Win10?

 

I posted this on my FB wall, I'll have to repost it here:

Tutorial: How to avoid the dreaded Forced Windows 10 automatic update in Windows 7 (Windows 8 is similar).

1) SHUT OFF Auto Updates, "Never Check for Updates"
2) "Show All Available Updates"
3) Go To "Optional" and Right Click on Windows 10 - Choose "Hide" - Note, this has to be done every time. See Figures 3 and 4, after HIDING the Win 10 downdate, press "OK"
4) Back at the Windows update screen, it no longer is forcing you to obtain Windows 10. Click on either of the blue links that says "2 Optional etc" or "6 Optional etc" to go in and select the updates individually.
5) Just make sure you don't click on the Windows 10 button again!
6) Do the same at the Important Updates screen.
7) Press Ok and it will allow you to install ONLY the updates you chose.

That should be it, you should be good. Also, check your Auto Update setting after installing ALL updates, some updates turn Auto Updates back ON. So always check "Change Settings/CHOOSE how Windows will install Updates"

Oh - I misread the OP. Sorry. To do this, you must have Win 10 Pro. Use GPedit.msc to allow "Notify ONLY" for updates. The, use wushowhide.diagcab (not sure of the name) to selectively choose updates to hide. has saved me a lot of grief!

 

Thank you so much for this suggestion:

Oh - I misread the OP. Sorry. To do this, you must have Win 10 Pro. Use GPedit.msc to allow "Notify ONLY" for updates. The, use wushowhide.diagcab (not sure of the name) to selectively choose updates to hide. has saved me a lot of grief!

1. Does it ONLY work with w10 Pro version? (EDITED)
2. Where in GPedit.msc do I allow 'Notify ONLY' for updates?
3. What is wushowhide.diagcab? Is it a component of Windows?

Edit: for whomever is reading this, note that the proposal from XweAponX works both with Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise versions, not ONLY with Pro, jsyk

 

Yes it's only for pro, I'm not exactly sure where it is in the group editor, there is a post about this in this sub for it. Search for "hiding windows updates", I'll be in shortly to look for it, I am on my iPhone right now so I don't know how to search for it.. As for the last file Google it it's a Download you can get from Microsoft, it's a fix-it to all you just run it and it allows you to hide whatever updates are coming in so if you don't want any of them you don't have to have them.

 

OK I found this posted after doing a search, I'm just going to paste it in here just do what it says and you'll be able to prevent any updating whatsoever as long as you want.

 

Just do that and the only time you'll ever get an update is if you hit "check for updates" just keep your hands off of that and don't go into the update settings and you'll never have an update. Unless you want the updates and if you do, then you can use that diagcab to hide whatever updates you don't want.

 

I'll try all that and if it works .. what can I say? A huge thank you, man!

@jebuchanan - seems there is hope, after all.

 

Just to add to that long post from @XweAponX ermm .... another thing to do in order to stop the Forced update to Win10 when on Win7/8/8.1 is to delete all entries of 'GWX' in OS partition. Just search for GWX in the partition and delete everything ... that's what I did and the thing went away...

 

Ermm.... the fix actually works for both Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise

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