You're oddly proud about not having updated your OS for 72 days.
edit: And I'm trying to help other people. I know how infuriating it is to have your computer restart in the middle of something, and the above fix is pretty straightforward.
As a result of this complete ignorance to ergonomics, the windows ecosystem is returning back to WinXP years, and windows users are now getting pwned by years old exploits again.
I think microsoft best achievement in win7 was that it was working "out of the box" without having to hack it. Now, win10 again requires to be hacked right out of the box just to work.
People now install stuff like https://www.novirusthanks.org/products/win-update-stop/ or https://securityxploded.com/windows-autoupdate-disable.php and countless others.
But when they finally need to update, the half broken windows install may give up the ghost, because the update script can't account for hundreds of ways how windows internals may have been altered, and so they learn to not to update at all, and switch to antiviruses, qihoo and other "crapware clearners" in the end
Or, to rephrase that (from Microsoft's—and most IT departments'—perspective): Windows now works, as once again users with broken workflows are now forced into fiddly sub-optimal patterns for using the OS, which are more work to maintain than just correcting their workflow. (And IT departments are empowered to not even allow these fiddly sub-optimal patterns through GPOs, allowing them to force users to immediately rectify their workflows.)
Microsoft is trying to be the teacher that slaps your hand with a ruler when you look down at the keyboard instead of touch-typing. Except, instead of touch-typing, they're trying to force people to use (and build) software in a way that makes restarting their computer irrelevant, by e.g. making long-running jobs checkpoint their work and resume from the last checkpoint after a restart.
That has not happened even once to me, and what company allows users to decide?
I can tell you that the majority of calls to my desk from mac users are a direct result of not updating. The Windows machines all have their updates controlled by WSUS, a standard component on an AD network. I have very close to zero problems with Windows 10 updates.
That last happened to me a couple of years ago and I used Windows 10 every day since.
Allow Windows 10 auto update but for a chance for it to delete all your profile / data files PERMANENTLY :
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-k... (February 19, 2020)
Or
Turn off auto update with user control on when is best time to update:
How? UPS?
If it's a short enough move I can see doing that just for the hell of it.
I was referring to longevity in general. Back in the day, DEC computers would just about never go down. They easily had up times of longer than 5 years.