This is on a machine which never gets used by a person, it sits in a kitchen running Line of Business stuff and only needs touching if it fails somehow; WU is enabled and does crap like this!
I have no idea where to start. A friend is on #Windows10 and cannot receive cumulative updates from Windows update and is instead always being offered Windows 11 automatically, without having to press download and install, without having to accept license terms, and with no option whatsoever to stay on Windows 10. How do we prevent 11 from showing, and have the cumulative updates show instead? The one option is to go up to 11 then immediately rollback, but I'd like to avoid having them do that if at all possible and I'm not sure that changing BIOS settings is much of an option either. My guess is that kb4023057 was probably the culprit, but I have no idea (it probably modified something that's staying that way even after that update was removed). Thanks! #Windows#WindowsUpdate#WindowsIssues
I've seen lots of posts over the years about people being frustrated by the fact that Windows automatically reboots for updates. But since 2015 there has been a workaround where you can set the connection to metered, and then it will check and show the updates, but not initiate the download as far as I can tell. I'm wondering if there's a reason people don't do this? I'm fairly certain you can configure OneDrive to download/sync even when over a metered network, but I feel like this is a good workaround as I've been doing it for years and never had any of these unexpected restarts, as updates happen when I choose to make them happen. For example the updates for this month came out last week and I just installed them last night. #Windows#Windows10#Windows11#updates#WindowsUpdate
If you've got an old Windows 95 installation disc lying around then you can theoretically install it on supported hardware (or a virtual machine). But you can't get the post-launch updates because Microsoft shut down the update servers. This project brings them back online... unofficially, and potentially unsafely - the latest updates still won't patch all known vulnerabilities.
August 22, 2023—KB5029351 (OS Build 22621.2215) Preview - Microsoft Support (support.microsoft.com)
The August 2023 optional non-security preview updates for Windows 11 22H2 are now live.