+1 for that last paragraph.brewt wrote:As most windows updates are security hole fixes, surely you're not saying that you don't want those, that you would rather lay yourself open to the ravages of the internet that are out there rather than risk letting Microsoft have its way with your machine?
Good luck with that, if you think that is the right answer.
You can pause updates for up to 35 days, and put off installing new features for up to a year. Without group policy. After that, unless you have shopped for a new machine, they happen. And they should be able to happen without laying waste to the efforts to make something work.
What I'm trying to point out, is that the exotic licensing schemes for the exotic softwares we are using needs to be better behaved, in light of the fact of the life we now have to live with what semi-annual overall updates for windows now does.
As to updates - I think it is possible to download them piecemeal from MS and install them manually.
A bit of a pain, to put it mildly, to have to do that, though.
Pause for an irrelevance:
When I was entering the word "mildly", the keypad suggested "milf" - just sayin'!