Windows 10: Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely

Matthew,

1 I have never seen ● in a folder path. I do not know if that is going to introduce complications or not.

2 To run a batch file minimised, you just create a shortcut to it and set the shortcut's properties [right-click, Properties, Run - Normal window, Maximised, Minimised]. You do not need the Start command to do this [although it does have other uses].

3 There is something strange going on with links to specific posts. My link still takes me to post #33 but your link takes me to post #41.

4 I would urge you to put all batch files, vbs files & other script files within a folder group to which you have applied protection by limiting the permissions to change anything to the Administrators group. This will allow you to run them without worrying that they might have been corrupted by malware since you last checked them. A procedure for doing so is in the explanatory pdf contained in the CustomMsgBox.zip file that I have given you a link to in my post #33.

Denis

 

In "Check for updates", on line 6, "www.google.com" has been replaced with "www.msftconnecttest.com".
Is it okay now? I don't want to use a separate file for checking Internet connection.

 

Matthew,

I doubt it.

I learnt from The Windows Network Connection Status Icon (NCSI) - markwilson.it and my notes show that I also re-read these while working on the subject
The Network Connection Status Icon - TechNet Networking Blog
Appendix K Network Connectivity Status Indicator and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Vista

I might also have referred to
Network Connection Status Icon - updated info
Network Connectivity Status Indicator and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows 7
How Windows knows it has an internet connection - Super User Blog

Denis

 

Matthew,

Check_update_settings.bat works [as does its vbs subroutine Update settings changed.vbs]
- You do not pass arguments to your vbs subroutine so it shows the same message whether it is the metered check or the USOClient check that has failed.
- If you look at the zip files I gave you links to, you will see some examples of passing arguments from batch files to vbs files.

I have not run Check for updates.vbs.
- I will only consider doing so if I can check where the code came from and can read reviews by people I trust about this procedure.
- So if the Sub Check_for_updates section of the code came from somewhere in TenForums please tell me where.
- I would almost certainly feel the need to restore a system image afterwards to make sure that there were no hidden side-effects of running the procedure you suggest. So testing alternative procedures of running updates takes significantly longer than the time taken by the test alone.
- I do not feel any motivation for testing a WU utility that does not achieve what my current scheme achieves.

I have reliable anti-Windows update settings [metered connections, USOClient disabled] and I generally use PSWU to list updates then go to the MS update catalog to download them.
- There's an explanation of PSWU somewhere in TenForums - it is a PowerShell utility that can list updates or download them or download & install them].
- I also use the WUMiniTool because it is very handy for grabbing update installation files for items I cannot find in the MS update catalog. There have recently, for example, been a couple of Windows defender platform updates that could only be obtained through WU so the WUMiniTool allowed me to get hold of them.
I have four computers and use my mobile phone as my internet connection. I can never waste my internet data allowance by separately downloading updates for each computer when it is possible to download them once for them all [or twice if there are separate x86 versions as my oldest computer is 32 bit].

Your links to posts in this thread have -4 stuck on the end of the thread's url. It might be this that stops me using those links. Your last one took me to post #41 again.
Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely
instead of
Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely
which does take me to post #31. Note that TenForums threads do not use the same page numbers for everybody because user's profiles include a setting for how long each page can be. I have mine set to the longest setting so this current thread only has 2 pages for me.

Denis

 

I downloaded "CheckUpdates.vbs" from VB Script to Check, Download, and Install Windows Updates from Microsoft
Then I modified it, which became "Check for updates.vbs", which will only check for updates but not download and install them.

 

Try the following VBScript, which will only check whether connection is available.
Code: Option Explicit Dim Test, Result Set Test = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\").ExecQuery _ ("select * from Win32_PingStatus where address = 'www.msftconnecttest.com'") For Each Result in Test If Result.Statuscode = 0 Then Call Connection_is_available Wscript.quit Else result = MsgBox (_ "Internet connection is unavailable.",64,_ "Attention, please!") End If Next Sub Connection_is_available MsgBox _ "Internet connection is available.",64,_ "Attention, please!" End Sub[/quote]

 

After logging out, I clicked on the following links again.
My link, with "-4", went to post #31.
Your link, without "-4", went to page 1.

How about you?

 

Matthew,

Your links to posts in this thread have -4 stuck on the end of the thread's url. It might be this that stops me using those links. Your last one took me to post #41 again.
Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely [with -4]
instead of
Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely [without -4]
which does take me to post #31.

I have no idea what is going on.

Denis

 

How can I find where it is?

I think the problem was caused by the setting below.