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windows turns stuff on that you've turned off after upgrades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXaqZy8Zhg
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Axel <none@not.here> wrote

windows turns stuff on that you've turned off after upgrades

Never happened to me but that has been reported
long agp if you work out how to turn updates off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXaqZy8Zhg

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On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:59:55 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.
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JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:29:56 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are available in
all editions. Though some policy settings won't have any effect because the associated features are either absent or hardcodedly disabled.

AFAIK, MS' Group Policy Editor is not avaiable as separately download. We'd have to get it from a Windows edition CD/ISO which has it. But there's at
least one proper group policy editor application from third party.

https://github.com/Fleex255/PolicyPlus
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JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are available
in all editions.

But there is nothing to stop MS from
resetting those any time it likes.

Though some policy settings won't have any effect because the
associated features are either absent or hardcodedly disabled.

AFAIK, MS' Group Policy Editor is not avaiable as separately download.

We'd have to get it from a Windows edition CD/ISO which has it. But there's at
least one proper group policy editor application from third party.

https://github.com/Fleex255/PolicyPlus

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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:54:20 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the
convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are available >> in all editions.

But there is nothing to stop MS from
resetting those any time it likes.

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JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the
convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are
available in all editions.

But there is nothing to stop MS from
resetting those any time it likes.

True. It's annoying.

And you can obviously automate setting it the way
you want it and have it do that as often as it needs to

The purpose of updates/hotfixes are being abused by MS.

Its very arguable that it is abuse or just MS trying to stop
stupid people from being stupid and risking their systems
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Rod Speed wrote:

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote

Rod Speed wrote

... if you work out how to turn updates off

IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

That's only for Pro and Enterprise
https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the >>>> convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are
availableaa in all editions.

But there is nothing to stop MS from
resetting those any time it likes.

True. It's annoying.

And you can obviouslya automate setting it the way
you want it and have it do that as often as it needs to

The purpose of updates/hotfixes are being abused bya MS.

Its very arguablea that it is abuse or just MS trying to stop
stupid people from being stupid and risking their systems

anyone who use M$ if they don't need to is stupid
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:40:00 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

Its very arguable that it is abuse or just MS trying to stop
stupid people from being stupid and risking their systems

I doubt MS is not part of that stupidity, considering that the frequency of
how their hotfixes break the system rather than fixing it, kept rising.
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