I'm running 8.1 with Classic Shell. I decided to keep Windows Update disabled entirely until the whole "we'll ram Windows 10 down your throat if it kills us" thing dies down, so I set it to never search for updates, then disabled the security center warning about it.
I'm OK doing this because I mostly run Linux, I know what not to download and have my important data backed up to drive cradles that I keep physically disconnected anyway, so even really bad malware can't really touch me.
After weeks of perfect non-updated operation with no annoyances about Windows 10, today Windows declared, entirely out of the blue, that it needed to reboot to install updates.
I'm positively, absolutely, emphatically 100% sure that I did not re-enable the updates, but when I went looking the option had reverted to "install updates automatically".
Is this a deliberate action by Microsoft (perhaps through Defender updates, which were the only ones I was installing through the Defender application itself)? The last shot in the increasingly unethical series to get people to upgrade?
I imagine it'd have blown up on the Internet already if it were like that, but then again, I can't think of anything I did that might have re-enabled that setting, nor did I install any application that could conceivably have anything to do with it (just a game through Steam and a mp3 tagging utility).
Needless to say, I then went and screwed everything up through my own stupidity (PSA: don't install the GWX control panel and deactivate everything after the Win10 nag updates have begun installing but before the installer has rebooted, or you'll get a persistent, unsolvable fatal error on boot with the GWXUX.exe file and you'll be a sad panda). Sigh.
I'm OK doing this because I mostly run Linux, I know what not to download and have my important data backed up to drive cradles that I keep physically disconnected anyway, so even really bad malware can't really touch me.
After weeks of perfect non-updated operation with no annoyances about Windows 10, today Windows declared, entirely out of the blue, that it needed to reboot to install updates.
I'm positively, absolutely, emphatically 100% sure that I did not re-enable the updates, but when I went looking the option had reverted to "install updates automatically".
Is this a deliberate action by Microsoft (perhaps through Defender updates, which were the only ones I was installing through the Defender application itself)? The last shot in the increasingly unethical series to get people to upgrade?
I imagine it'd have blown up on the Internet already if it were like that, but then again, I can't think of anything I did that might have re-enabled that setting, nor did I install any application that could conceivably have anything to do with it (just a game through Steam and a mp3 tagging utility).
Needless to say, I then went and screwed everything up through my own stupidity (PSA: don't install the GWX control panel and deactivate everything after the Win10 nag updates have begun installing but before the installer has rebooted, or you'll get a persistent, unsolvable fatal error on boot with the GWXUX.exe file and you'll be a sad panda). Sigh.
