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Posté Tue 02 Feb 16 @ 1:40 pm
You can't really turn off auto updates on Windows 10. However you can schedule when you want to update. So, if the update notification appears on message center you click on it and you pick a date and time that suits you. This way it won't bug you every hour as with Windows 7 for instance
 
This is referring to windows 7 and 8 updating to win 10 without you wanting it to
"The company changed the designation of the Windows 10 download from “optional” to “recommended” within Windows Update"
"with recommended updates automatically selected will have Windows 10 downloaded without asking"
"Once downloaded it can also automatically start the install process, presenting users with the option to proceed to stop the installation. But the propensity of users to simply hit “OK” or accept when faced with a prompt in the middle of doing something else, will likely see users just blindly hit OK and unknowingly installing Windows 10, preventing access to the computer while the instalment completes."
so i can only assume a manual update will do the same
 
All my machines have Windows update disabled, and this is a perfect reason why.

What they are doing here is plainly stupid, and will alienate them from their customers even more.

If you want rid of the prompts, run GWX control panel.
 
But if you update your current system manually, you are likely to get win 10 downloaded too. I may be wrong but it looks that way. Why would a manual update be any different. I update to latest win 8.1 release, but now may be installing win 10 without knowing it, then have it try installing in the middle of a gig
 
So disable windows updates, then only enable them when you're not at a gig. Simple!

It shows as a 2gb install on Windows update, and does actually prompt you before going ahead.
 
kradcliffe wrote :
So disable windows updates, then only enable them when you're not at a gig. Simple!

That's not the point, it is disabled, but when at home if i want to update the operating system for "bugs, security fixes" however now i will be downloading win 10 too sat there waiting to pounce one night when i,m not expecting it.
"The company changed the designation of the Windows 10 download from “optional” to “recommended” within Windows Update"
Any attempt to update will now download win 10

"It shows as a 2gb install on Windows update, and does actually prompt you before going ahead." Lets hope so!
 
No, if you manually review the updates before you download or install them you can untick it.
 
And if you don't manually review? (which i never have done) on a manual update of CURRENT operating system
 
Well you need to. This is what MS are doing to their customers now so if you know about it then take steps to avoid the install if you don't want it.
 
 
This is not about the "get win 10" notification, it is about Microsoft forcing the download on us. The only nag you will potentially get now is instal the .exe rather than prompt to download it. Microsoft have made that decision for you from today it appears

Manual updates need a bit more attention than they did before
 
I must be missing something. I have auto update applied on all 3 of my machines, but 10 is has not updated by itself.
 
 
So what point are you trying to make?

You keep posting the same thing which we understand.

That's the way MS have changed things so if people install windows 10 by mistake then so be it.

Anyone who has automatic updates fully enabled on a gig machine is asking for trouble anyway, It's been like this since Windows 98.
 
You may understand maybe others don't know that they have recommended updates selected when at home and update away from a gig. I don't recall me talking about using the auto update at a gig, but if used at home and it downloads with this change it could potentially install at a gig with it turned off. Sorry for pointing something out that others may not know Microsoft changed it from “optional” to “recommended”

Before if you had recommended updates selected and updated at home you were fine, now because win 10 has gone from optional to recommended, it will be downloaded if you have recommended updates selected so yes there is a major change as i,m sure many do update at home and some may have this selected

I,ll keep quiet
 
 
Yes, but it prompts you before installing

There's no way it will just "be there" when you reboot, you have to tell it to install.
 
Oh so that is ideal mid gig to have a program try and install itself, and you have the ability to accidentally allow it
No idea why you are trying to lessen what i,m trying to let others know. OK you know it all but others may not.
 
Well they certainly know now, that's for sure.
 
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