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An important corollary: if you turn off your computer when you’re not actively using it, you’re going to have a bad time. The updates that are supposed to happen in the background instead force you to wait while they run.

So you have to save and shut down everything at the end of the day to not lose work, but also leave the computer eating electricity in case it wants to update.

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The best is when your computer crashes with a blue screen right in the working on something, then adds insult to injury by doing updates for the next 45 minutes after the restart.

This is why I run Windows in a VM. Want to turn your machine off? Suspend the VM and shut down Linux.

Not only that but if powered off, the windows machine will actively power itself on late in the night unless drastic measures are taken to disable this feature. The amount of times I have been spooked by ventilation noise + monitors turning on at 2am is far too much.

To avoid this, I'm using Hibernate mode, and occasionally using shutdown/restart.

If you use hibernate, you kinda have to turn off scheduled tasks, or else it starts up in the middle of the night to check for updates, then, potentially, run for hours.

Might have been more of a problem for me, as I have the PC in my bedroom.

Yep, this has happened when putting it into Sleep mode. Might as well happen in Hybrid Sleep. And in advanced power settings you can disable wake timers, but I'm not sure if it helps.

Tried automating the removal of scheduled tasks (like the Compatibility runner which made the laptop sound like an airplane) and snoozed the updates for a few weeks. In the end, it broke the Scheduler, the task was still launching, and had to reset the OS to a proper state. It's a love and hate relationship with this OS.

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