Displeased with Forced Updates in Windows 10 Home

Totally agree TechnicaOne1. It is a shame that microsoft are doing this, which is not in the interests of the majority. It would only be of value to Enterprise licencees, who would benefit from having millions of other users going through trouble and issues all to ultimately provide a stable snapshot for them down the track.

For most home and even pro license holders, this is going to affect them in some way, major or minor, at some point. It may be that certain software gets broken as drivers needed to solve an issue cannot be installed and/or kept intact on a system, it may be direct hardware failure due to forced driver installs, it may be other issues that affect certain users only. No matter the problem, forced updates will eventually have a negative effect I suspect on most, if not all users at some point.

It would be like a car company who makes a new car model, but it is designed to only be able to take an exclusive, premium and expensive petrol. Or it is designed only to start between the hours of 8am and 4pm.

Good companies try and make a product that suits, and is the best possible for its customers. Microsoft are showing us, due to the fact that many people are dependent on the Windows Operating System (mostly invested heavily because of software that is Windows-only, or optimal on Windows systems) and have a large amount of market control, that they will use their position to dictate to us what they want, not what is a good operating system that is in the best interests of the end-user.

Some new news:  The functionality to "hide" an update (as you would in the "Windows Update control panel" from Vista through Windows 8.1) is still there, but the UI for it is gone.  You can hide an update in the registry, or there is now a tool you can use to stop an update from being applied.

The effects of this are identical to what would have happened in Windows 7 if you had right-clicked and used "hide update".

Get it here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930 

Such decisions only makes sence if a company wants to check the major issues and bugs and then sort them out later for the pro or enterprise users.

Yes, that is the point.  They even said so directly.  But now we have the same 'hide update' ability we had in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1, so we can stop any update we don't wait.  Enjoy.

Such decisions only makes sence if a company wants to check the major issues and bugs and then sort them out later for the pro or enterprise users.

Yes, that is the point.  They even said so directly.  But now we have the same 'hide update' ability we had in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1, so we can stop any update we don't wait.  Enjoy.

Thats a great information. Hope your last line meant "WANT" and not "wait". And it means that we can hide updates in WINDOWS 10 HOME EDITION.

Do Not Panic follow this link there is a MS Solution.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-tool-to-hide-or-block-unwanted-windows-10-updates/

Do Not Panic follow this link there is a MS Solution.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-tool-to-hide-or-block-unwanted-windows-10-updates/

Its told in the given link that its for windows 10 insiders, will this work for windows 10 users upgraded from windows 7/8.1 users and will this tool be provided in the final version of windows 10 as UPDATE????

That's good info and good news Shawn.

I know they won't provide a UI for it (so most will remain as beta-testers for the Enterprise class), but at least they provide a workaround.

Thanks for sharing and this is good news.

My only gripe is that I have to install all drivers by default (as I suspect I won't be fast enough to hide an update as soon as it comes through windows update), but at least we are left with a part working solution, which is to uninstall drivers as they come through, and then hide them with this fix.

Will create a bit of a messy system though, but at least the system has the capacity with this fix to remain intact.

Cheers for sharing.

Here's another mention of it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/07/27/microsoft-backtracks-on-windows-10-forced-updates/

I wish they would only allow hiding driver and feature updates. Security updates are important.