Weird attempt by Windows to enforce 1909 update on me

I have a laptop still on Windows 10 1809 I was planning any way to update it to 20H1 when its out in a week .

Funny enough starting 3 days ago and out of the blue Windows update decided to enforce the 1909 update on me , it had never offered me any further feature update suggestions over the past 2 years (Just the cumulative ones for the 1809 build) .

But then all of a sudden I now have update 1909 waiting to install that when I click the notification "You need some updates" it immediately starts installing then I have to do a hard reboot to break it .

There used to be an option to delay featured updates for a year that is not working now , all I can do is pause Windows Update in general .

If I un-pause it , it immediately starts installing again and then I have to do a hard reboot to break it .

So there is a Microsoft utility that hides updates I don't want to install , and even on attempting to use that it reports that there are no updates found to hide .

I managed to disable Windows update service to call it today but funny enough the service re-enables itself every 24 hours and re-offer the update .

What's with all this really ?!

Humming "We Will , We Will , Update YOU!" like Queen here .

dalchina said:

Hi, I would think this is occurring because you're past end of service life for 1809.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lif...no2g6xg3oki000

- some links there point to 1709! The last to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/win...e-information/
which gives a revised eos of 2020-11-10

Seems this hasn't quite been achieved... interesting..

Assuming you have Home, you can use e.g. Sledgehammer (free) to disable Windows updates properly (MS overcomes trivial means) but via Windows Update Manager - WUmgr- included- allows you to manually scan.

Defender updates are still delivered.

No guarantee 20H1/2004 will appear at the end of May; don't expect it to be offered automatically immediately to every compatible PC- expect a phased rollout.


- in Pro
And changes in 1903 helped Home users.

I am on pro version actually .

So I dunno about Sledgehammer , I still can disable windows update every 24 hours I don't mind that , but the real problem is I wont be receiving any sorts of updates (security/cumulative/products) ...

Also despite that I am on pro version I can't delay it , the drop down is there saying 365 days but ineffective .

Finally how come 1709 and 1809 have same EOL date despite having a year gap between , and then they advance 1709 till October 2020 but forget about 1809 or to even make a dedicated page for which .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

I still can disable windows update every 24 hours I don't mind that , but the real problem is I wont be receiving any sorts of updates (security/cumulative/products) ...

The real problem can be solved simply by Using CMD script and VBScript to control Windows Update
You will receive notification of available updates as soon as they have been found, and you need not disable Windows Update every 24 hours.