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

[benb]

No it's Not.

It's called Economics.
Corporations belongs to shareholders, shareholders expect profits and that 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 lamps 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.

Yes it is, and that's clear evidence that it happened in the incandescent light bulb field, but that doesn't mean it happens in every field.

In high technology such as personal computers, consumers have increasing demands as newer computers do more (they want to run Lotus 1-2-3, then play and encode mp3's, then watch movies, then have 4k video resolution, etc) so older computers are naturally seen as obsolete to most people. I'm not saying it [intentionally limiting the performance or lifetime of a product] never happens with computers, but in general it doesn't have to happen for people to see older computers as obsolete.

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.

That sounds like the capacitor plague, there were many electrolytic caps made that decade that didn't last long, often failing before the warranty ran out. The manufacturers did not intentionally use faulty parts, they just didn't recognize the problem until a lot of computers were sold. Most companies spent a lot of money honoring and fixing in-warranty returns, but one denied there was any problem for years. Here's a story (one of many, google capacitor plague):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/technology/29dell.html

And then there's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

 

[Phrazemaster]

Well, but Whoops made a pretty compelling argument don't you think? It's only a theory, but it's most likely true. This whole economy runs on repeat purchases.

There are documents from the 1950's where designers discussed planned obsolescence for products. It's a cinch to imagine that it can be done with software too.

Think corruption doesn't happen? What about VW and the famous smog-cheat software? Stuff like this happens. And if it's well-hidden enough, inquiring minds may never know (for sure).

 

[Whoops]

That sounds like the capacitor plague, there were many electrolytic caps made that decade that didn't last long, often failing before the warranty ran out. The manufacturers did not intentionally use faulty parts, they just didn't recognize the problem until a lot of computers were sold.

The first Apple Macbook Pro (non-unibody)  didn't have the Capacitor plague, the graphics chip just died 3 -6 year after purchase, also OS updates would stress even more the chip on the computers were it was not fried yet.

But the second Macbook Pro (unidbody) had a capacitor problem, not the electrolytics capacitor plague you talked about, but there was a specific tantalum capacitor that failed after some years, only one in the full board. These account for models from 2008 until 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy-WrDdgYY&t=3s

Economy as it is, only works if you continue to buy
Corporations make sure that happens

If your new computer could be useful to you in the next 6 years, they will make sure you buy a new one after 3 years, they can do it from a software update that you don't really need, or an "Easter egg" on the hardware side, or by not sharing schematics, parts and test software

You need to see this video and you will understand better how Apple does it, but other IT companies do the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAmnV65_zw

 

[PRR]

CJ may enjoy this:
https://archive.org/details/CPUWars
https://archive.org/download/CPUWars/CPU%20Wars.pdf

 

[tombee]

As I can see, the others have already given you the most convenient way of getting rid of the updates; I'll just share my insight on the updates.

When it comes to such updates, I prefer to have myself notified by the system since I don't regularly check the recent changes in Windows. I'm pretty much paranoid about security, so whenever a notification pops up, I do update my Windows right away.

Well, that's just me.  ;D

 

[CJ]

no longer getting the update notice!

why?

when we loaded windows 10, CCleaner would no longer run, attempts to download a new version of CCleaner did not work because they got hacked a while back,

so we have been accumulating stuff for months,

we try to download and run CCleaner again and it works!  cleaned out about 2 gig worth of crap and that update must have gone with it so we are glad we did not click on that link! 

thanks for the help and advice about it may be a bogus update message!