I need some basic tech help Kiwibros

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I'm running Windows 10 on my laptop. I have all my update options turned off in settings.

Windows is continually trying to update my computer. It does this nearly every day.

It downloads the updates, tries to install them and then says "Oops, Windows can't install these, we'll revert these changes".

I can't stop it. I've looked up how to try and stop this and nothing I've tried works.

I highly suspect this is Windows fucking with me because I won't update to 11. In fact, I just had to sit through another attempted update and noticed something new.

Today they tried to coerce me into installing my "free update" of Windows 11.

Is there any way to stop this, because it is starting to genuinely feel like MS won't stop until I give in.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Working as designed. Switch to Linux.

 

[Geranium]

I can't stop it. I've looked up how to try and stop this and nothing I've tried works.

Perhaps roll back to a restore point, or reinstall the OS components. More here.

I'm running Windows 10 on my laptop. I have all my update options turned off in settings.

This is generally a bad idea. The “upgrade to Windows 11” prompts are separate from the normal patches.

 

[no-exit]

I don't use Windows, but maybe switching to Windows 10 LTSC might reduce the amount of spam updates.

Working as designed. Switch to Linux.

This is true, Linux won't spam you with mandatory updates. If you have a spare computer, give POP!_OS or Linux Mint a try. You're welcome to join us at:
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[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Perhaps roll back to a restore point, or reinstall the OS components. More here.


This is generally a bad idea. The “upgrade to Windows 11” prompts are separate from the normal patches.

The only update I've been getting doesn't seem to be installing and I thought they were updating W10 at this point.

 

[std::string]

Is it KB5034441?

There's a known issue where this shit just doesn't install.

 

[barrow greeter]

If a particular update won't install or keeps throwing an error, you can hide it to essentially make Windows Update ignore it like it doesn't exist :

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8280-hide-show-windows-updates-windows-10-a.html

 

[JoshPlz]

Is it KB5034441?

There's a known issue where this shit just doesn't install.

Can confirm. There has been another broken update like that last year. They are not testing their shit properly anymore.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

The only update I've been getting doesn't seem to be installing and I thought they were updating W10 at this point.

Look up one of the numerous powershell scripts written to disable most of the faggy Windows telemetry bullshit. Mental Outlaw had a good one. Other then that, you're getting the intended Windows 10 experience.

 

[Crypto Six Gorillionaire]

Your computer has a virus
It's called Windows

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

If a particular update won't install or keeps throwing an error, you can hide it to essentially make Windows Update ignore it like it doesn't exist :

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8280-hide-show-windows-updates-windows-10-a.html

I'll try this later tonight, thanks.

 

[Morning Alarm]

Show us what the update packages are including optional software. It could be anything- but I've had this same problem with a package repo that's stuck. Optional packages/updates can cause this, so it may not even be Windozer causing the issue. Try turning off Delivery Optimization as well.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

The Jan update doesn't seem to work correctly, even on a fresh install. I've been seeing this on multiple different models as well.

 

[eatler]

now that you have actual answers I can say mine....

 

[AgendaPoster]

I'm running Windows 10 on my laptop. I have all my update options turned off in settings.

gpedit.msc?

 

[Night Crawler]

I just recently had to reinstall Windows 10 because one of my 4TB SSD's died. It was weird because I thought it was the 2TB that died the one with the Windows install. But the 2TB was fine. It was the 4TB that died. My PC wouldn't boot into Windows and kept going to the BIOS. The only thing I can think of is when I did my motherboard and CPU upgrade in 2020 I kept my 2TB and 4TB both connected and Windows installed some kind of boot sector on the 4TB. So it was trying to boot from the 4TB but couldn't. I ran into this problem with my first PC build in 2016. I had 250GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. I wanted the 250GB SSD to be the boot but windows kept installing all the boot stuff on the HDD so the boot up was still slow. So, I had to disconnect the HDD to do my windows 10 install and make the 250GB the boot drive. It's kind of surprising I didn't remember this issue in 2020.

The issue I had a few months back was after doing my new Windows 10 install it wouldn't do any updates. The updates kept failing. The issue was that my Windows install was corrupted. There's a way you can repair it I can't remember how though. I just did another install of Windows 10 but this time I went and downloaded the latest version onto my USB thumb drive. Sometimes the Windows updates just don't work right. But you could look into seeing if your Windows install is corrupt. It happens sometimes.