W10 keeps updating even tho updates are turned off

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Sadly, I have not seen the author, pf100, for a year on TenForums since the release of Sledgehammer 2.7.0 on March 24, 2020.

Note that Sledgehammer will disable the Windows Update service and will not automatically check for updates.

W10 Tweaker said:

That's all about the joy of being able to choose the best Windows 10 options for yourself.


I've been using Matthew's cmd & vbscript on 4 computers for awhile and quite happy with it.
Given the choice of missing the odd update versus allowing Micro$oft free run to abuse my expensive wireless internet and trash my PC with garbage updates, I choose the former.

I personally have had experience in the past whereby M$ updated my PC while on a metered connection. I just don't trust them period, I choose to control updates as much as possible.

Like any options or tweaks, please don't use them if you're not comfortable they suit your needs.

Personally, I, haven't had Windows Update trash one of my PCs before. Sure, there have been times when I had to fix a few annoyances that resulted from feature upgrades, and some bugs that have affected my workflow only to a minor extent every once in a while. I've always managed to either fix these problems reasonably fast or work around them effectively. That's just because the 'metered' connection prevents automatic updates in such a particular way that is causing the least amount of trouble for me. It never has downloaded any updates for me automatically. I use a simple shortcut that points to C:\Windows\explorer.exe ms-settings:windowsupdate and that's it, the 'metered' setting prevents Windows Update from downloading available updates until I use the shortcut.

Before the Fall Creators Update came out, I was using two simple batchfiles that I had written to prevent unwanted automatic reboots back then, but they were no longer necessary on Fall Creators Update. I moved from a laptop that came with Windows 8.1 Home OEM to a new laptop with Windows 10 Home OEM in January 2018 so, I've only been using Windows 10 for a little over three years. Therefore I was able to immediately, as soon as I got Windows 10, set my Ethernet connection to metered by using Brink's .reg file, as I had skipped the annoying first part of the Windows 10 'era' while being well aware that Windows 8.1 was still far less annoying than the earliest versions of Windows 10. The official registry change that prevented Windows 8.1 from wanting to upgrade to Windows 10 was 100% flawless. I'm only saying this because a lot of people kept getting theirself in trouble all the time, either because they stuck with Windows 7 for too long after Windows 8 had come out or because they moved to Windows 10 before Windows 10 had finally become stable.

The reality is that I don't need to block nor need to uninstall updates. Blocking them never has fixed anything for me,. And I never needed to uninstall even just a single update. Ever.

AddRAM said:

I have disabled Windows Update service.

Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSvc) can re-enable the service.

AddRAM said:

yet the Windows Update folder in Windows>Logs>Windows Update still looks like it`s trying to poll for updates and builds a list, how do we stop this ?

It has built a list in my folder too, but nothing except definition updates has been installed as per the following events.

Code:

   ProviderName: Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient

TimeCreated                      Id LevelDisplayName Message                                                                                                                                                               
-----------                      -- ---------------- -------                                                                                                                                                               
3/10/2021 3:00:18 PM             26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 11 updates.                                                                                                                         
3/10/2021 3:00:18 PM             26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 8 updates.                                                                                                                          
3/10/2021 1:27:31 PM             26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 11 updates.                                                                                                                         
3/10/2021 1:27:31 PM             26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 8 updates.                                                                                                                          
3/10/2021 11:09:51 AM            26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 11 updates.                                                                                                                         
3/10/2021 11:09:51 AM            26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 8 updates.                                                                                                                          
3/10/2021 11:09:30 AM            26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 0 updates.                                                                                                                          
3/10/2021 11:09:30 AM            26 Information      Windows Update successfully found 3 updates.                                                                                                                          
3/10/2021 11:08:23 AM            19 Information      Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following update: Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1....
3/10/2021 11:08:12 AM            43 Information      Installation Started: Windows has started installing the following update: Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.333...

hdmi said:

I have tried WUMT, it does NOT always find all updates that the official Windows Update of Windows 10 finds.

My WUMT does not find optional updates either.

dalchina said:

No updates. Period.

And no form of security.

I take it to mean "No automatic updates, period!"

dalchina said:

, so a more modern solution might be preferred.

...Which setting your connection to metered definitely is.