Stop Windows 10 Updates Properly and Completely

My WUMT did not show that KB4023814 denoted Update Assistant, which subsequently installed version 1803 automatically.

pf100 said:

Did you run the script to the first screen after you updated? It should have removed Update Assistant if you did.

Does "the script" refer to "WUMTWrapperScript.cmd"? Do you mean running it immediately after installing KB4023814 should have removed Update Assistant? I did not see any "first screen" after installing KB4023814.

pf100 said:

Also, does anyone have any idea why I'm not getting email notifications from this thread anymore?!? I would have helped you sooner if I'd seen your post earlier @Matthew Wai.

I did receive email notification of your reply hours ago. I have subscribed to this thread.

Matthew Wai said:

Does "the script" refer to "WUMTWrapperScript.cmd"? Do you mean running it immediately after installing KB4023814 should have removed Update Assistant? I did not see any "first screen" after installing KB4023814.

I should have said, re-run "WUMTWrapperScript.cmd" to the first screen after you updated and closed WUMT and/or rebooted. The script deletes the folders "%systemroot%\UpdateAssistant" and "%systemroot%\UpdateAssistantV2" before the first screen appears every time it runs which are the folder(s) that start the chain reaction that installs "%systemdrive%\Windows10Upgrade" and at that point it's game over. I recently posed a question at MDL about instead of deleting those folders, to lock them instead, and if they don't exist, to create and lock them, which would have prevented you getting updated to 1803, and you wouldn't have needed to re-run the script again after updating. The only downside to that is people might freak out if they see "C:\Windows10Upgrade" in their root folder and not be able to delete it, and you wouldn't be able to uninstall Update Assistant from Control Panel if it's really installed. The only way you'd be able to delete it is to uninstall the script. But the upside is it would prevent Update Assistant from ever being installed and/or run. I think for the next version I will lock/create and lock, those folders with a big warning, "This script makes your PC to appear to have Update Assistant installed, and it may be, but it can't run!" Would you be okay with that, because it would finally fix the Update Assistant issue for good. I really hate that Update Assistant blind-sided you like that.

Matthew Wai said:

I did receive email notification of your reply hours ago. I have subscribed to this thread.

I've been subscribed to this thread since I discovered it. I got an email notification of your post this time and I think I see a pattern. Obviously, I'm not a regular here. So, it seems that if I post here, I get notifications for a few weeks and then they stop until I post again and then I get notifications for another couple of weeks, then they stop again. Could an admin look into that please?

dalchina said:

Hi, notification emails end thus:

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dalchina said:

That said, occasionally I receive a few from the same thread without re-visiting it.

Thanks, @dalchina

@Matthew Wai You getting hijacked by Update Assistant has convinced me to go ahead and create empty Update Assistant folders if they don't already exist, and then lock them so Update Assistant can't run. That feature will be in the next version of the script.
Thanks for your report, and my sincerest condolences.

Out of curiosity why do some users want to block 1803 so bad? I really liked the feature updates and overall UI enchantments that it brought. Updates messing with other applications?

andyouf said:

Out of curiosity why do some users want to block 1803 so bad? I really liked the feature updates and overall UI enchantments that it brought. Updates messing with other applications?

It's not so much about blocking updates or upgrades as it is having control of what updates or upgrades you want, like Windows 7 used to be. To have control of updates in windows 10 you have to 1) first block Windows 10 forcing updates down your throat, and 2) have a method of selecting the updates you want. If you don't do number 1, you can't do number 2.
Some people need Windows Media center and that can only be installed on early versions of Windows 10, and an upgrade will kill it permanently.
Some people have a certain CPU or other hardware that won't work past a certain version of 10, even though Windows tries to upgrade anyway, effectively bricking your device until you do a clean reinstall of the last supported version, or do a rollback over and over again.
I literally could go on and on. The bottom line is that people have their reasons. In a perfect world everyone would be on the latest version, it's just that it doesn't work like that sometimes.