Windows 10 to Automatically Remove Updates That Cause Problems

[Porthos]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...matically-remove-updates-that-cause-problems/

 

[fincoder]

I like the recent comment at the bottom of that article:

I gotta admit, installing Win 10 updates is an adrenaline thrill like speeding through a construction zone. Will I get pulled over, will the cop notice the open beer between my legs and the roach in my ashtray? Life is full of delicious surprises.

 

[phaZed]

I must be the luckiest person alive. I have had zero issues with updates personally... for my whole household.

 

[Porthos]

I must be the luckiest person alive. I have had zero issues with updates personally... for my whole household.

Me either. Not just household but clients as well.

 

[Moltuae]

I must be the luckiest person alive. I have had zero issues with updates personally... for my whole household.

Me neither, for the most part.

I mean, I have pretty much no update issues with any of my business customer's machines, which represent about 99% of the computers I maintain. I dropped all residential work years ago except for 3 or 4 customers, for one reason or another (I took pity on them, they're not assholes or they kept begging me to help). And it's that 1% of machines that have 99% of the Windows update problems. In a 'controlled environment', where there are restrictions on what users can do to their machines, and the network and internet connections are good, Windows Updates tend to work as they should. But factor in flaky broadband, sporadic use/abuse (not to mention the installation of obscure/questionable software) and the likelihood of problems increases exponentially.

 

[Sky-Knight]

The only problem with Windows update I have on Windows 10, is actually not Win10, it's Server 2016.

Good night that thing takes ages to update, servers sitting at "Getting Windows Ready" for an hour isn't much fun. But they always update, always come back on, and start doing their jobs.

 

[nlinecomputers]

So it will rollback to windows 7? LOL

 

[HCHTech]

I haven't had any problems personally, but I have had numerous problems with clients. The most recent one was a mortgage broker where a windows update just plain broke the connection between the workstations and the database on the server. It's a paradox database, I think, and It's really the vendors fault for not keeping up, but still a PIA. Took us a while to figure it out.

BTW, this isn't just a Microsoft problem. I have a client using Rapid Recovery backups (used to be Dell AppAssure). This is a high-dollar system that mostly works really well but every other month a firefox update or a chrome update breaks the ability to load the web interface of the thing. It's never-ending. You have to use one of these two browsers, but which one actually works changes all the time.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yeah, the semi-annual release cycle paired with an 18 month support envelope is stupid. MS really should fall back to annual releases, with semiannual support. And, they seem to be moving in that direction because their enterprise customers are screaming for a break too. But thus far, while they're willing to ease off some of the server product release cycles, they as of yet haven't eased off the OS client or server.

 

[Your PCMD]

I must be the luckiest person alive. I have had zero issues with updates personally

Be quiet you

for my whole household.

Oh, OK. Whew!

On the subject, I really think Microsoft has not a clue when it comes to their OS. It seems to me that Windows 10 is a constant beta and we are all the beta testers.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Be quiet you

Oh, OK. Whew!

On the subject, I really think Microsoft has not a clue when it comes to their OS. It seems to me that Windows 10 is a constant beta and we are all the beta testers.

If you're dumb enough to buy home, so you can't defer feature updates for 180 days, yes! That's exactly what you are!

 

[Porthos]

If you're dumb enough to buy home, so you can't defer feature updates for 180 days, yes! That's exactly what you are!

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...15d2f6de0a08a745008c50786c6b0362cdf49f1fc.gif

 

[Sky-Knight]

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...15d2f6de0a08a745008c50786c6b0362cdf49f1fc.gif

Sure you can pause it for a month, on 1903 apparently... but that's still useless, it's also not permanent. On Pro as of 1807, Semi-Annual is deprecated, and will with 1903 be merged with Semi-Annual Targeted. But you can configure an arbitrary delay on feature updates that is persistent on the machine. So you can tell Pro, hey... don't pull a feature update for six months, and forget it forever. Sure you'll be six months behind, but I've been doing that since 1709, and all of my update issues vanished with the change.

 

[sapphirescales]

This is definitely going to adversely affect business for me. I get a LOT of non-booting Windows 10 issues caused by botched updates.

 

[HFultzjr]

There goes some business.
Let's hope, the update rollback fix, rolls back an update fix, that caused an update issue.....................LOL
Or, something like that.
MS "fixes" are sometimes worse than the "problem".