1903 deferred update settings

[Sky-Knight]

I've got a test unit here, I installed 1809 on it, did my usual refurb passes, then on a whim upgraded it to 1903.

The upgrade itself was very quick, after update I jumped into my WIndows Update settings, and all my expected stuff was there. I set feature updates to defer for 90 days like I usually do, then did a Windows Update pass to install the May updates for 1903. On the next reboot, all the Windows update settings for deferred updates were gone... poof...

Now this unit isn't on a domain, and I know Group Policy is still a thing, but I need that deferred setting for my non-domain networks...

Then I find this: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/28/windows-10-1903-the-case-of-the-missing-update-deferral-options/

So it seems to be a thing... some units have the setting, some don't... and no one knows why?

 

[Sky-Knight]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\PolicyState
DeferFeatureUpdates

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings
DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodInDays

The above keys reflect a 30 day delay, not the 90 I set... and they do make a quick edit to fix, but still no UI even set to zero....

Not sure if this is a bug, or Microsoft has screwed up their updating even more than we all suspected.

On the upside, the active time window can now 18 hours wide, instead of 12... that's nice.

 

[GreyWolf]

18 hours wide ya I fixed that with a nice autohotkey patch that keeps on changing my active hours, it's the last time windows is going to make one of my 16 million color scripts crash in the middle of a run.