Windows 10: Windows updates on non-compatible devices

After an update caused my laptop to have a total meltdown back in summer and I had to take it in for a factory reset, I spoke to a Windows agent and he apparently switched off my automatic updates after informing me that my poor old Samsung (she's only 5!) was no longer compatible for the updates.. However, those pesky updates have snuck through and caused another device failure this morning resulting in me bothering the nice people at KnowHow.. We managed to get my laptop to do a 'system restore' over the phone and the old gal seems to be bearing up.. Now I want to know how I can check that the auto updates are still switched off and to make sure they stay switched off!

Thanks in advance for any advice..

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HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.

 

Rufus 2.18, last update to support Windows XP and Vista

SEE HERE: http://rufus.akeo.ie/


Changelog

• Version 2.18 (2017.11.07)
  • Ensure that the same drive is reselected on device refresh
  • Add a cheat mode to cycle the USB port of currently selected device
  • Make lookup for updatable .cfg file more generic (e.g. ESET SysRescue)
  • Fix handling of multiextent ISOs (e.g. BlackArch Linux)
  • Fix propagation of image decompression errors
  • Update grub4dos to latest
  RUFUS 2.18 IS THE LAST RELEASE TO SUPPORT WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS VISTA.
  FUTURE RELEASES WILL NO LONGER BE COMPATIBLE WITH THESE PLATFORMS!
  

 

Vista Pre-SP1 vs. Vista SP1

I've been Windows Updating for two straight days and I finally saw SP1. If you want to troubleshoot it, follow these steps:

• Show hidden updates
• Manually install any failed updates (google the KB_____ and install from the windows site)
• Make sure everything in Device Manager is good to go

I had to do step two for like 4 or 5 updates to be able to see SP1.

Any other benchmarks you guys want to see? I might try PCMark05 (I think it works on Vista).