Dealing with Windows10 auto updates

[dean_dmoo]

Hi,

I've been using windows 10 since the beginning of the year and recently came across an issue whereby my backburner jobs hadn't completed during the night. There were no errors so I came to the conclusion that it was down to windows 10 auto updating my stations and restarting and thereby losing the connection to my manager. Also saw this happen during the day recently to confirm it.

How are you guys dealing with this issue? I now have a combination of my WS being set to a metered connection (a sort of hack) as this disables windows from auto downloading and restarting (not the best solution imo) and having the RN's set their working hours during the night so a daytime reboot can be caught / fixed. However the metered connection setup seems to be causing issues with optional download packs now failing to download and frequently giving me error popups. And guess what, again you can't seem to set this up to not do it... This also caused issues with my onedrive sync. So a lot of joy all around then!

I think it's pretty ridiculous that windows doesn't allow me to determine how and when updates are managed, and tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to a lawsuit as the damages could become quite big for certain jobs. For example I worked on a European tender worth 130 mil euros with about 150.000 euros worth of design consultation for the submittion. What happens if I couldn't deliver the images on time because windows decided to update all my RN's. Admittedly I make sure these kinds of issues are managed, but still...

[chris-x//]

This has to be the most outrageous feature of all time. I have one machine with windows 10 and it restarted some nights ago, it's a render slave I do not often check. How on earth could they force people to update things like that.... Come on, those guys were around the table and decided to do that, they validated the feature... I can't understand that. And windows suddenly performs very well at restarting with apps running. Try to do that yourself and windows hangs because applications ask to save... Update ? No problem I kill everything.

I have to test this workaround : https://mspoweruser.com/turn-off-win...te-windows-10/

[Wilyman]

Totally agree that it's ridiculous, and I've also been caught out by it a couple of times.

There's a workaround here from Donald2B - http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...518#post707518 - which seems to do the trick.

Cheers,

John

[Moriah]

Just use ultimate windows tweaker to disable all the crap and many others. Worked for me. It's free.

[Richard7666]

Are you guys using Windows 10 Home? There's no way to disable it AFAIK.

The professional version brings up an obnoxious pop up, but forced restarts can be disabled with group policies and such.

[iancamarillo]

I've had to set my "active hours" to 8pm-8am so windows won't restart during the night. It only gives you 12 hours per day to not automatically restart and microsoft calls the "active hours". If the machine needs to restart, most likely it will ask me during the day when I'm on it.