Does Windows Update frustrate anyone else?

[ProtoSyren]

Title. Seriously. 

 

My computer updates itself seemingly every time I shut it down. Yet today while installing some software I get an error stating "You are running a version of Windows older than 2004."

 

That's... Odd? I just reinstalled Windows last month. All my Windows Update settings were left at the defaults. And yet somehow I was on version 1903.

 

Windows Update just says "Restart pending" for an update to 20H2.

 

???

 

You literally shut down every single day. At most every 2 days. Am I missing something here? Am I just being dumb, and you have to manually initiate version updates?

 

As I type this I've been sitting here for 40 minutes waiting for this series of updates to complete. Whee.

[Skiiwee29]

<-- Moved to Windows -->

[AndreiArgeanu]

You most likely installed an older version of Windows and it's pretty typical to get many updates when you do that. That's why I always create a fresh install media using the W10 tool so I don't have to wait hours to get dozens of updates on an old version of Windows.

[AbydosOne]

1 minute ago, ProtoSyren said:

You literally shut down every single day.

For better or worse, I hibernate almost every time I'm done with my computer(s) for the night. Windows Update hates me because my computer is never on during when I have active hours set, and I disabled its ability to wake itself.

 

That said, I despise the fact that it will auto-restart without input if you accidentally leave it running alone. I've lost work to that stupid function (even in 10Pro, where in theory I should be able to set admin overrides to things like that, but none of them seem to work right).

[ProtoSyren]

2 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

You most likely installed an older version of Windows and it's pretty typical to get many updates when you do that. That's why I always create a fresh install media using the W10 tool so I don't have to wait hours to get dozens of updates on an old version of Windows.

I actually used the "Reset this PC" function in Control Panel. So I guess I've been running 1903 since... Well, since it was current. I'm still lost as to why it never updated in the years I had it installed.

 

2 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

For better or worse, I hibernate almost every time I'm done with my computer(s) for the night. Windows Update hates me because my computer is never on during when I have active hours set, and I disabled its ability to wake itself.

 

That said, I despise the fact that it will auto-restart without input if you accidentally leave it running alone. I've lost work to that stupid function (even in 10Pro, where in theory I should be able to set admin overrides to things like that, but none of them seem to work right).

I've never had it auto restart... Yet...

 

I wish it would have at this point. I've been having performance issues for months. Wonder if being multiple versions behind was the culprit... Lol

[AndreiArgeanu]

4 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

That said, I despise the fact that it will auto-restart without input if you accidentally leave it running alone. I've lost work to that stupid function (even in 10Pro, where in theory I should be able to set admin overrides to things like that, but none of them seem to work right).

Weird, I could easily disable windows updates on my system, only issues is, disable means destroy so the Windows update function just gives errors when you try to check for updates yourself, so if you want to update you'll need to reinstall windows itself to fix it. Maybe there's another way but I haven't found one yet. Though Windows Update hasn't really bothered me lately at all so I don't feel the need to disable it.

[steelo]

17 minutes ago, ProtoSyren said:

Title. Seriously. 

 

My computer updates itself seemingly every time I shut it down. Yet today while installing some software I get an error stating "You are running a version of Windows older than 2004."

 

That's... Odd? I just reinstalled Windows last month. All my Windows Update settings were left at the defaults. And yet somehow I was on version 1903.

 

Windows Update just says "Restart pending" for an update to 20H2.

 

???

 

You literally shut down every single day. At most every 2 days. Am I missing something here? Am I just being dumb, and you have to manually initiate version updates?

 

As I type this I've been sitting here for 40 minutes waiting for this series of updates to complete. Whee.

YES!

 

Especially with my work computer...it's like everytime I boot, it nags me about yet another update.

[flibberdipper]

I've been able to completely avoid Windows' special brand of retardation the entire time I've been using it (since version 1703). Hell my server's been wheezing along on 1909 and it's still not asking me to upgrade, and my daily is on 2004 and same thing here.

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

I've been able to completely avoid Windows' special brand of retardation the entire time I've been using it (since version 1703). Hell my server's been wheezing along on 1909 and it's still not asking me to upgrade, and my daily is on 2004 and same thing here.

well sounds you have pro version?  I actually managed to postpone updates with that for about 6 months without it nagging me about it.

 

But last time it was 5 months so he actually broke the contract we've made (i triple checked to be sure).

 

So I renamed him, he's called update orchestrator_backup now. I like this new one a lot more,  he always sleeps and when I ask him how it's going he just mumbles <read error description failed> 

ROFL 

 The best windows. 

[flibberdipper]

7 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

well sounds you have pro version?  I actually managed to postpone updates with that for about 6 months without it nagging me about it.

 

But last time it was 5 months so he actually broke the contract we've made (i triple checked to be sure).

 

So I renamed him, he's called update orchestrator_backup now. I like this new one a lot more,  he always sleeps and when I ask him how it's going he just mumbles <read error description failed> 

ROFL 

 The best windows. 

Yup. I've never actually had to postpone updates on either PC though, it just never bothers asking me. Once in a blue moon I'll remote into my server and it'll pop up with a notification telling me that updates are waiting, but it never goes father than that.

[ProtoSyren]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

well sounds you have pro version?  

Oh is that the reason for it? I am actually running Win10 Pro. Had no idea it would act differently to do with updates. 

[Mark Kaine]

17 minutes ago, ProtoSyren said:

Oh is that the reason for it? I am actually running Win10 Pro. Had no idea it would act differently to do with updates. 

I thought that's the reason why people get pro version... but they nerfed it pretty hard it used to be up to one year, it's now 6 months and the option was removed from settings too, you now have to do it in "group policy".

 

 

[DopeyDave]

I recently upgraded to new pc. The first update broke my user account which i couldnt log into anymore. It always signed me into a temporrary account and there was no way to fix it. So i had to reinstall again. 

 

Straight up deactivated updates since then.

[ProtoSyren]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

I thought that's the reason why people get pro version... but they nerfed it pretty hard it used to be up to one year, it's now 6 months and the option was removed from settings too, you now have to do it in "group policy".

 

 

Honestly, I only have Pro because it was only $10 more than Home when I bought it in store... Good to know, though! 

[AbydosOne]

1 minute ago, ProtoSyren said:

Honestly, I only have Pro because it was only $10 more than Home when I bought it in store... Good to know, though! 

Not that much more for a grey market key, and it allows me to RDP into it when I'm too lazy to get out of bed to change something. I think that and the GPEditor are the only Pro features I use.

[Donut417]

I set my computer to a metered connection, well my ISP does have a cap in all. I periodically just check for updates. I just updated to 2004, like yesterday. I don’t trust any of the major updates for Windows these days. I only updated to continue getting patches. Outside of that I wait till the software is unsupported to update. Ensures they have all the bugs worked out.