The article points out that you can set hours when Windows will update.
One of the reasons I choose a PC over a Mac is because I want to decide things for myself. Microsoft's updates seem very Appleish to me.
All they need is large text that says something like, "You are more likely to get viruses, malware, randomware, etc if you uncheck this setting." Heck, make them confirm the choice two or three times. Some people want to risk it, some people need to risk it. Let them, it's their machine and their data.
Implementations actually matter. Hordes of us would jump ship if we could, but convincing vendors to port flagship software, or even do something as seemingly straightforward as a license migration is never easy.
Sorry, I have no sympathy. Look for alternatives, or roll your own. Or find a new line of business altogether. Whining about your OS vendor abusing you is getting really, really old now. Like an abusive boyfriend, they're not going to change, so it's up to you to make a change.
There is.
In my configuration this is still working. I went to services.msc and searched for "Windows Update". I stopped the service, went to its preferences and selected "Disabled" as startup type.
It works fine.
ChromeOS updates the system once every 6 weeks and still has a far more secure system.
This can be rather dangerous if your laptop is stuck in a backpack with no airflow on a hot day.
The laptop would be hot enough to toast bread when I pull it out.
If I'm out of town for 2 weeks, I cannot have my Windows 10 machine reboot, it runs the software for my security cameras and that can't start until I log back in. Thankfully, I set up Windows Update to not install updates automatically(Win10 Pro) way back when it came out and it has continued to stick. Major updates are a constant worry that they will finally break this forever when it shouldn't even be a concern in the first place.
^_^
shutdown /r /t 0
AFAIK, this has always avoided updates.
Is it not still like that? MacOS seems worse to me, since restarting when an update exists isn't sufficient: you have to remember to go back to the update and click 'update & restart'...
Linux handles this best though, by a long shot.
IME OSX is way better, the shutdown update process is much shorter than on Windows (where it is frustratingly long) and not all updates require rebooting.
Then one day windows realizes, holy smokes, we have to install those updates now! And proceeds to restart your computer regardless of your update preferences, typically right in the middle of your business day.
Changing the updates to install on shutdown is slightly more challenging than disabling updates (it is hidden in an option about power settings on boot). So guess what people do?