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Microsoft Decreasing Windows 10 Updates Downtime in Fall Creators Update

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Plus they need to learn to set the Active Hours. Windows 10 gives you a 12 hour window that you can set where it will not install updates or force reboot the computer. Yeah, if you use the computer for more than 12 hours you still get stuck with a reboot in the middle of your work, but most business won't be affected by that since most computers are only in use for an 8 hour shift, maybe 10 hours.

It's 18 hours now.
 
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In which universe does this make sense? What were you smoking last night?
Contingency for non-existent Windows Live Patching service? Provisions for lazy users and admins?
You, kids, made me very confused, and it's already 9:30AM here and I had 3 big cups of coffee...

I feel like my head is gonna turn into a pumpkin by noon....

I don't think you understood what I said...

I also don't get your questions...
 
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After losing work for the nth time (half way through some tasks, got to lunch, or to midnight, come back later and PC rebooted and work lost) I decided to take back control. How? Totally disable auto reboots. This can only be done by also disabling updates. Results? My PC no longer updates or reboots. Downside? My PC does not update because MS has removed the manual "check for updates" option. I am sure I'm not the only person: W10 PCs out there without updates and no option to manually catch up.
 
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I'm just hoping the Creators update when it's finally out of beta doesn't wipe out all my fonts like the beta one did. Especially since you can't even choose which updates you install in W10.
 
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I finally put on Win10 and like 3 days of tweaking i got it tweaked enoug for normal internet connectivity, it wasn't that hard tho as I imagined, the tools that people built before helped also.

No, cortana, no updates, nothing, metro apps totally deleted, old win7 calculator, modded Win7 GUI aero glass theme, Win7 icons back, works perfectly.

Confirmed with wireshark there's not a single phone-home connection made by the OS or any of it's components, piece of cake.

But the show desktop button is very thin, that's a big pain in the ass I haven't been able to tweak yet, but I'm just getting started.

And obviously I don't use this Win10 install as a main OS, I put it on some old HDD totally sepearate, and only for gaming, it's still useless for practical work and high speed multitasking, that's how it's done, you people are really losing so much nerves and effort trying to follow the "rules" of a bunch of people who run a random corporate american company, you never saw or met.
 
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Actually this will make updating even more potentially unstable, because it's always risky with windows to do more work "online" rather than offline.

They love to use this "streamline" buzzword.

Updating is so risky and broken on Win10, I didn't try but I kept reading the reports and news, even if it may not be problematic in the end, this feature it self is added complexity and can have it's own bugs.
 

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And obviously I don't use this Win10 install as a main OS, I put it on some old HDD totally sepearate, and only for gaming, it's still useless for practical work and high speed multitasking, that's how it's done, you people are really losing so much nerves and effort trying to follow the "rules" of a bunch of people who run a random corporate american company, you never saw or met.

Tell us, O Great One, which OS with which desktop you use?
 
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