Posted on 03/12/2018 9:11:04 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Some users reported being pushed to the Win10 1709 upgrade with no advanced warning.
Some Windows 10 users are reportedly being forced to upgrade to version 1709, even if they had chosen to opt out of automatic updates.
As reported by Windows blog AskWoody, Windows 10 users on versions 1607 and 1703 were pushed into the update, even if they had Feature Updates deferred. In a separate Woody on Windows column in Computerworld, it was also noted that the updates were forced on users with no advance warning.
Version 1607 is also known as the Anniversary Update, and version 1703 is called the First Spring Creators Update of Windows 10. The push to version 1709 is an upgrade to what is known as the Fall Creators Update, originally released on October 17, 2017.
SEE: System update policy (Tech Pro Research)
The forced updates are interesting because they seem to bypass a safeguard feature that prevents automatic updates. By deferring feature updates, Windows users can push back certain updates for quite a long time, placing them on a path called "Current Branch for Business." But this surprise upgrade was unavoidable for some users, even with the deferral in place.
Pinging for your ping list.
We have a computer that crashes and has to be restored if 1607 or 1709 try to install. We had to stop the updates or else trash the computer.
Oh, Bill Gates. The gift that keeps on giving.
For enterprise users, this could be a major problem if there were things that could be forced past that block on updates.
If it were the result of a coding oversight, that bites, but so be it, those things happen.
If it was deliberate by Microsoft, people have reason to be angry. I have a hard time believing it was deliberate. But that could be my naivete.
This is the one I installed a long time ago, and it’s been a complete success-
It loads something called GWX Control Panel. Someone posted it right here on FR, sorry that I can’t remember who.
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
No surprise.
On my desktop computer, I have Win7 updates turned off. I still frequently get a ‘critical update’ installed. Sometimes, it messed up things so I have to run a system restore to undo the mess.
MS is bad about forcing updates, but they are so known for releasing bad updates that mess up more than they fix.
Thank you, this has been driving me nuts, I will try it out when I get home.
Last summer, the hard drive on my wife’s PC died.
I only had a Windows 7 disk to get it back up with, because I didn’t want to purchase Windows 10.
It would be great to get an update for free.
“You’re gonna use it, and you’re gonna like it.”
Operating system cramdown.
Enterprise users shouldn’t be pointing their workstations to the interwebs for updates.
If they are, and this bites them, good. Might teach them a lesson.
If you don’t want Win7 there are many who will buy the computer with it installed. Been a hot item for a while.
I like Windows 7; my wife wants the 10.
Her machine is a Dell Power Edge Server, with 8 cores and 32GB RAM. I’m not selling the PC as I invested 2 days trouble shooting and repairing the motherboard 3 years ago (spider crawled into a card slot and shorted out a munch of stuff).
I am very comfortable with this PC and will be keeping it for a few years more.
Absolutely true.
And at an Enterprise level with a policy, I presume it should be blocked for individual users to initiate. That would be appropriate.
But if you had something that bypassed that block and just updated the workstations without user input, that would be a very bad thing.
If I read it correctly, it sounds like people who deferred the update AND said they didn’t want to send data to Microsoft, they were the ones who got forced in some way.
It sounds like if you have a business edition of Windows 10 that it doesn’t happen, which would be good.
Windows 10 is a virus that caused me to use Chrome which I like a lot. I still am prompted for updates for 10 and have found no way to uninstall it.
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