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Windows Update - I hate you

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  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    ogimus said:

    There is so much mis-information on this thread.

     

    But I will leave it alone as I know from experience that once people make up their minds about something it's nearly impossible to correct it.

     

    But as for Windows 10 updates when I want to do an overnight render I go to the update center and do all updates then reboot before I begin.

     

     

     

    it's been working for me

     

    Well, it would help if you said what was wrong information. What you do is fine. But that doesn't solve the problem of updates re-checking themselves or having to wait for updates to complete when you have an 'emergency' situation and need to shut down because of impending t-storms.

     

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,322

    In my case it's been device drivers.Windows Update keeps installing multiple drivers for my audio card.I've followed the steps to halt this behaviour, yet it's still happening.

    Windows currently has 2 drivers installed and if I uninstall either one, Windows Update will reinstall it.This causes my sound to stop working.So, for now,, I am stuck with no sound on Windows.

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    Taozen said:

    This should stop the updates for good:

    http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-7-to-10-gwx-how-to-remove.html

    Thanks for this! I followed instructions to the letter and no more tray icon. Things seemed to be okay and I rebooted. Pulled up Windows Update and it looked fine. Then as I was looking at it ANOTHER Windows Update popped up with the progress bar and 'downloading Windows 10) now 88%. ARGGGHHHHHH.

    So I Hid the update and that seems to have worked. Been involved with this for around nine hours already (among other things) and I'm finally ready to put it to bed except I don't know how to get the close to 3 gigs of space the win10 update files have consumed. sad.

    Note: If an update you don't want keeps checking itself, right-click on it and select 'Hide'. That seems to stop the nonsense.

     

     

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    icecrmn said:

    In my case it's been device drivers.Windows Update keeps installing multiple drivers for my audio card.I've followed the steps to halt this behaviour, yet it's still happening.

    Windows currently has 2 drivers installed and if I uninstall either one, Windows Update will reinstall it.This causes my sound to stop working.So, for now,, I am stuck with no sound on Windows.

    After uninstalling, right-click on it in windows update and select 'Hide'. That should work. Just learned that today.

     

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342

    I got my space back! It was 2.95 gigs and when I dumped it I got twice that amt credited back to free space. I guess windows keeps shadow copies somewhere.

    I found instructions here....

    http://ccm.net/faq/2471-windows-how-to-purge-the-windows-update-cache

    HTH

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,322

    Thank you Spit,,,:)

    I think I'm going to have some fun with this Cortana data collector thingy they got. *evil giggle*

    I'm going to plug the microphone port into the speaker port and have a looping audio file say "hey , Cortana" and have it say just random things to it nonstop.That should give MS some fun things to sort out.

     

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