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Posted August 06, 2019
I've been disabling the services for update, remote registry and security center among other since the first day I got Win XP, haven't had any trouble.

Neither have I had any trouble on disabling those services on win10 as well because I expect MS to screw up everything they make (and especially update).

As mentioned by Dark_art_ the rolling/updating system on windows is a complete joke. The amount of millions companies have lost due to their update is just staggering. Linux is far better and more trustworthy on that area.
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Posted August 06, 2019
Why is OP complaining rather than simply disabling auto updates? Dumbest thing for any program is having auto upgrades enabled.
Posted August 06, 2019
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SarahGabriella: Why is OP complaining rather than simply disabling auto updates? Dumbest thing for any program is having auto upgrades enabled.
Is not that theres a button for that. Not every one knows how to do that.
Posted August 14, 2019
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scientiae: It is possible to stop auto-updating in Win-10 (identify your network connection as not always connected) and also to remove the updater task from the OS (not simple, requires diving into the Registry).
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Dark_art_: I have my internet connection set as mettered and it sometimes aplly smaller updates. Never seen a major update even months after the realease, have all the notifications disabled as well (concentration mode). I do update eventually though because I don't want to do it in the middle of something important.

But this don't solve most Win10 problems, as I've said before, the "rolling release" system is not good for backwards compatibility in my opinion. At least for now where everything is changing too fast. Developers can have a really hard time maintaining software and GOG with the huge game list will probably have a hard time, the broken game list is huge for those who use Galaxy and auto-update games.

IMHO, Win8.1 is the best Windows system to use at the moment if you don't want to babysit your computer.
I have mine off. (I don't connect to the internet. :"

If anyone is still using Win7, the July update came with Telemetry. This is how to turn it off, step by step.

Also worth reading for Win10 users.
For those interested
Posted August 14, 2019
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scientiae: If anyone is still using Win7, the July update came with Telemetry.
Somehow this seems fitting.

People are paying to be spied on, you can't make this stuff up.
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Posted August 14, 2019
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scientiae: If anyone is still using Win7, the July update came with Telemetry.
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DadJoke007: Somehow this seems fitting.

People are paying to be spied on, you can't make this stuff up.
I'm still agog at the monthly ¼GB security patch. I mean, wtf? After twelve months of downloads, the entire contents of the Program Files folder could have been replaced, without compression. At the very least this represents a complete disregard for bandwidth. What are these people programming in, some Lisp emulation of a whalesong version of the digital virus signature, as dictated via braille to a blind chipanzee? I could write a COBOL program to interpret the AV signatures and include the compiler in a file that size. /rant
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