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- Mar 7, 2008
Yes, another one of those threads.
I've been using a trick of disabling WU service to prevent restarts unless I expressly do it myself. Last night before going to bed, the temperature was dropping and turned on 3 more PCs and put them to distributed computing projects. Two of them were Windows 10, and I manually went in, checked the status of the WU service, and both were enabled. I had been tinkering with the systems recently so this wasn't unexpected. No problem, I stopped and disabled it, and went to bed. Of course, I woke this morning to find both had restarted overnight just after I left them, so they've been sitting idle since. I suspect they may have already been in the process of updating when I stopped it, which was enough to trigger a reboot even after disabling.
I'm far reaching the stage where I'd rather just block WU outright at network level so it will never work again. That's not to say I will never update, but it will be on my terms.
I've been using a trick of disabling WU service to prevent restarts unless I expressly do it myself. Last night before going to bed, the temperature was dropping and turned on 3 more PCs and put them to distributed computing projects. Two of them were Windows 10, and I manually went in, checked the status of the WU service, and both were enabled. I had been tinkering with the systems recently so this wasn't unexpected. No problem, I stopped and disabled it, and went to bed. Of course, I woke this morning to find both had restarted overnight just after I left them, so they've been sitting idle since. I suspect they may have already been in the process of updating when I stopped it, which was enough to trigger a reboot even after disabling.
I'm far reaching the stage where I'd rather just block WU outright at network level so it will never work again. That's not to say I will never update, but it will be on my terms.
