Microsoft Systems Restore

Good advice RKJ.  Especially for those who in the future will be automatically upgraded to Win 10 whether they want to or not via the sneaky win 10 upgrade within the Microsoft Updates.  Important to set their Win updates to manual.

K  

You are right Kennine, but they are even craftier in this last update in that you cannot turn the automatic updates off. You can delay them until the next restart, but cannot turn them off.

My OH was looking at this yesterday (he has Windows 10) and found this:

How to stop Windows 10 automatic updates

He hasn't tried it yet.

Does anyone know if MS are also mucking about with Windows 8.1 when they up date it? 

Sorry but my grandchildren are fed up with me asking them technical questions and my failing to understand their answers.

Hi Valda,

I am sure there will be a change in the registry smewhere that could be changed and no doubt it time it will become public knowledge, but may users are understandably nervous of accessing this area of their computer.

You can uninstall updates, as I had to with an Outlook update which Microsoft adnitted did cause problems. It has now been omitted from the general update and will not be replaced, so I do qusetion why they installed it in the first place.

Hi Rkj, further to turning automatic updates off, I have just had a root around my Win 8.1 system,---- I installed all the latest downloads and to date I am still able to choose the update method, so long as I uncheck "give me updates for other microsoft products"   ------------ have not tried  it on the Win 7 laptop yet.

Do you happen to know the sneaky Win 10 update system id number as I will look out for it.

IMO Microsoft are not quite being above board by forcing users  to upgrade to Win 10 surreptitously.

Regards Kennine.

Hi Kennine,

the one that caused it was a cumulative one they released on the 11th December and was KB3116900

Hi again,

that should read or KB3122947, they both came through overnight on the 11th

Hi again,

that should read or KB3122947, they both came through overnight on the 11th

Write your comments here...Thanks I will have a looksee.

K

I'm still on windows XP Pro will not change as there are too many problems with the newer systems.