How do i get rid of this Windows update notice? Solved!

[CJ]

every night , hit the remind me later button , need better solution...

thankful for any help! 

install it?  Microsoft wins if we do that, 

 

[ruairioflaherty]

I used a variation on these instructions

http://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-disable-get-windows-10-icon-and-notifications

 

[metalb00b00]

every night , hit the remind me later button , need better solution...

thankful for any help! 

install it?  Microsoft wins if we do that, 

if you have administrator rights, press the Win+R on your keyboard, type in services.msc and press Enter to run it.

on the right window pane, scroll down to find Security Center.
right click on it to bring up its properties, then change Status from Running to Stop, and Startup Type from Automatic to Disabled.

scroll down again to find Windows Update.
repeat the stop and disabled step.

restart your computer.

by doing this, you will disable automatic update until you decide to enable it again.
turning off security center will stop it from complaining that you have disabled the automatic update.

 

[ruffrecords]

Install Linux.

Cheers

Ian

 

[pucho812]

I get the same thing on our new d-scope computers.  to combine the issue we are running them via a dell which has it's own updates separate to windows. 

 

[CJ]

Microsoft wants to run our lives, already got to worry about the Samsung TV taking pictures, 

Thanks Folks! i will give those ideas a try.

 

[ruairioflaherty]

With Respect to MetalNoob I would not turn off your security updates or you will have computer knob rot within days.

The Windows 10 update reminder is a separate app that was installed during an update, if you follow the instructions I linked or the many similar instructions found online you will delete the app that is driving the reminders and happily live in Windows 7 land as I do (on the bench, for real life it's OSX all the way).

 

[metalb00b00]

With Respect to MetalNoob I would not turn off your security updates or you will have computer knob rot within days.

when you need to update, run services.msc again, and access the Windows Update service properties, click the Start service button.

been doing that since Windows XP days, and never once in my life i had a virus or a malware attack.
as long as you don't open porn or questionable sites, install suspicious programs, you'll be fine.

 

[CJ]

already have Windows  10 installed, so this is an add on of some sort.

 

[metalb00b00]

already have Windows  10 installed, so this is an add on of some sort.

I personally prefers to update the system on my own. 
I don't need a program telling me every now and then that I have to.

It gets rather annoying because when it detects an active Internet connection, it starts to check for updates, and if you have it set to update automatically, it will do so in the background, and the process will lock system files which are being updated so programs which are dependent on those files can't run during the update.

 

[PRR]

> already have Windows  10 installed

"Windows 10" is not a static target. MS keeps updating it. There is a "Creator's Update" now/soon available.

Blurbs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upcoming-features
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features
3rd party overview:
http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-fall-creators-update-is-now-set-in-stone-ahead-of-release

HOWEVER!! I would check VERY carefully that this is not a scam!! Is that pop-up box really from MS? Can anybody else screen-grab their known-good MS popup for CJ to compare?

It is odd that I am seeing a date of Oct 17, not today Oct 5.
http://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-announces-the-windows-10-fall-creators-update-will-be-out-next-month

 

[PRR]

How to delay the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update while still getting security patches

 

[Whoops]

Not a Windows user here,  but I started to have those annoying update type messages on MAC OS also, after I updated from Lion.

You can't even disable it, the only think you can do is select "Remind Tomorrow", everyday it's the same stupid thing

Companies just want us to update a perfectly working system so that they limit the current capability of our equipment, making it obsolete through software and oblige us to buy a new one.
Apple is doing it for some years now in all devices, it's much more aggressive and noticeable since Jobs died

For example my father had an iPhone 4, it had iOS8 and was working perfectly fine, and perfect for my fathers uses.
One day he pressed one of the update messages as a mistake, and upgraded for iOS 9, next day and from that point on the battery would drain 2/3 times faster than before.
He complained and wanted to do back to iOS8, guess what you can't.
They destroyed the performance of is perfectly fine Phone.


I hope that you can get rid of that message in Windows, as the user base is bigger probably someone already discovered on how to disable that forever

 

[Phrazemaster]

Not a Windows user here,  but I started to have those annoying update type messages on MAC OS also, after I updated from Lion.

You can't even disable it, the only think you can do is select "Remind Tomorrow", everyday it's the same stupid thing

Companies just want us to update a perfectly working system so that they limit the current capability of our equipment, making it obsolete through software and oblige us to buy a new one.
Apple is doing it for some years now in all devices, it's much more aggressive and noticeable since Jobs died

For example my father had an iPhone 4, it had iOS8 and was working perfectly fine, and perfect for my fathers uses.
One day he pressed one of the update messages as a mistake, and upgraded for iOS 9, next day and from that point on the battery would drain 2/3 times faster than before.
He complained and wanted to do back to iOS8, guess what you can't.
They destroyed the performance of is perfectly fine Phone.


I hope that you can get rid of that message in Windows, as the user base is bigger probably someone already discovered on how to disable that forever

It’s a dark accusation but I believe you are right. I think they slow down phones and computers through both updates, and wait loop counters that increment every day. Day by day the system gets a liiiittle but slower until one day you can’t use that piece of crap anymore.

A fresh install of an OS seems to fix computers.

For awhile.

 

[DaveP]

Has something installed itself on your start menu?

This is what usually happens.

DaveP

 

[fazer]

This reminds me of apple making final cut run slower on older laptops than on its high end desktops.  some of which made no sense on certain edit functions. It was suggested they force it to run slower to entice people to buy higher end desktops.  The desktops were better for rendering but should have very little difference in performance for editing . 

 

[metalb00b00]

It’s a dark accusation but I believe you are right. I think they slow down phones and computers through both updates, and wait loop counters that increment every day. Day by day the system gets a liiiittle but slower until one day you can’t use that piece of crap anymore.

A fresh install of an OS seems to fix computers.

For awhile.

That's a baseless accusation. The slow down happens because we install and uninstall lot of programs. Uninstall most of the time left behind files which can't be deleted, like additional system library files which came from the program you've removed and these are loaded every time you enter Windows, as well as some useless built-in Windows services and programs. which start automatically and runs in the background indefinitely until you turn off the computer.

A fresh OS install will always perform better, because simply for the reason there are no additional system and program files to bog it down.

 

[Phrazemaster]

That's a baseless accusation. The slow down happens because we install and uninstall lot of programs. Uninstall most of the time left behind files which can't be deleted, like additional system library files which came from the program you've removed and these are loaded every time you enter Windows, as well as some useless built-in Windows services and programs. which start automatically and runs in the background indefinitely until you turn off the computer.

A fresh OS install will always perform better, because simply for the reason there are no additional system and program files to bog it down.

Actually no, it's not a baseless accusation. What I also didn't share is I am a computer trainer, and have been for 25 years. I run across all kinds of IT people. I shared this theory with a man who worked in a software company. He shared that in his company, they would add wait loops to early versions of software, and then reduce the wait loops in successive versions so they could say the software was "faster" and "optimized." It is not a big stretch to think the opposite occurs, especially when it drives sales. Do you know enough programming or machine language to really know what goes on in the heart of Windows or Mac systems?

Also, insider Microsoft people know that in order to keep Windows running well you need to do a fresh install or a re image every few months. Just as you said.

However, I think the story is darker.

Please try to keep language more in line with civility. I don't claim proof - I claim probability. Why would a "fast" laptop need to be tossed after 2-3 years? This whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and to think differently I'm afraid is to miss what really goes on.

 

[Whoops]

That's a baseless accusation.

No it's Not.

It's called Economics.
Corporations belong to shareholders, shareholders expect profits and that those profits increase every year (they call it investment), if you are a shareholder of a company that sell 1 product that satisfies a consumer necessity, after 2 or 3 years everyone has that product and the necessity is satisfied, then there's no more profit increase. The solution is to make those products obsolete even though they could work perfectly for the consumer's needs.

if you want an example standard consumer light bulbs were made so that thy would fail after a period of tim, even though they could last much longer, like 5x longer. Thats a well known example.

Do you want something to think about?
Apple first Macbook Pro, I think from 2007 and 2008, started to have major issues in the 3 to 6 years after purchase. There are specific components that fail after that period and most are dead nowadays.
They have a Core 2 Duo processor, if they were not dead with 100 dollars you could buy an SSD hard-rive and they would be quite useful in 2017, and then you didn't had to buy a new MAC.
But if they didn't fail how could they keep the profits increase expectancy year after year?


The advice I can give you is to never update any OS if the present state is working well for you.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

But we are getting off topic

Please someone that uses Windows help CJ get rid of that annoying pop-up

 

[Andy Peters]

Install Linux.

Get a Mac!