Avoid Windows 10 October Update Until You Do One Thing

captain-ameribunny:

andtheblueberrymuffin:

akaltyn:

reading that genuinely made me feel slightly ill

to add a way to disable updates:

• click your windows symbol
• type ‘administrative tools’ and open it
• click on ‘services’
• click on ‘windows update’
• click ‘stop’ (it may take a couple of times) 

this SHOULD stop it, but it will try to restart automatically. you can fix this the automatic re-starting issue. to do so:

• double-click on ‘windows update’ 
• go to ‘start-up type’
• select ‘disabled’
• you should be okay (SHOULD)

when the update is safe (”safe”) you will have to go back and automatically start the updater again. i, uh, truly recommend turning it off for all updates, until all the glitches are fixed, bc windows will straight up screw you over, so, also

back up your files, if at all possible

stay frosty, my friends

also, there are easier ways to pause the updates if you have pro, i think. i don’t have it, so i have to take the long way.

I’ve seen this floating around my dash and wanted to update people.

Microsoft has pulled their October update.   You can still turn off updates if you’re paranoid (lord knows I am!) but it looks like if you haven’t already downloaded the update, you won’t be made to as they have removed it for the time being to work on the issues people are having.

Avoid Windows 10 October Update Until You Do One Thing