Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

[deustroop]

AFAIK, Win 7/8/10 all versions.

Type into the Command line - control userpasswords2

This menu opens, Uncheck the Box User must enter a user ..........

I do not use a password yet when I bring up this applet the box is checked. Y is that do you think ?

 

[Hossain84]

Windows 10 is the best OS I have ever used.

 

[ElFenix]

i have this dumb thing set to notify to install updates and it still updates without asking then reboots without asking. i keep losing running jobs because of it. this is absolutely horrible behavior.

 

[deustroop]

i have this dumb thing set to notify to install updates and it still updates without asking then reboots without asking. i keep losing running jobs because of it. this is absolutely horrible behavior.

The dialogue box uses the word notify .But there is no notice.
MS instead says you'll be asked to schedule a restart to finish installing updates. But it does not ask anything. It schedules a reboot on its own. You have to check for a scheduled reboot to get the "notice".
No lawyer would have called a scheduled reboot a "notice".

And the reboot is inevitable, like upgrading your OS. It will happen , nothing you can do, because even tho you might be clever and reschedule in the year 2525, you will have to reboot before then.

 

[ElFenix]

i have more control over my phone than this thing. it doesn't just decide to install an update and reboot because no one happens to be looking at it right that minute.

 

[mikeymikec]

i have this dumb thing set to notify to install updates and it still updates without asking then reboots without asking. i keep losing running jobs because of it. this is absolutely horrible behavior.

Can you mess with 'active hours' in a way that suits you? The idea is that updates will not install during those hours.

 

[Puffnstuff]

i have this dumb thing set to notify to install updates and it still updates without asking then reboots without asking. i keep losing running jobs because of it. this is absolutely horrible behavior.

Don't they have an enterprise version for businesses?

 

[Ketchup]

I do see the need for further improvements in the update behavior. Only allowing 12 hours of a day for active hours? C'mon Microsoft! Only a small fraction of your Windows 10 sales are in an office where an 8-12-hour window is enough, and most of those are running Enterprise, in which case this isn't an issue.

On the plus side, considering the update nightmare may people running Vista and 7 are in, not to mention keeping computers more secure than many people would otherwise, I think "forcing" updates is a good idea. But they do need to have a better way of letting people prepare for such things, and not just saying "ok, we are closing everything" because they step away from their computers for two minutes.

Elfenix, I think mikeymikec has the best suggestion for the time being: set active hours to times you are at the computer.

 

[ElFenix]

Can you mess with 'active hours' in a way that suits you? The idea is that updates will not install during those hours.

Unless someone has hacked it to allow all day to be active, it's effectively useless.

Don't they have an enterprise version for businesses?

I'm not a business. I'm running pro, which was supposed to be for business, but is moving more and more from it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is also a source of frustration for us DC'ers, we run machines 24/7 crunching, and these constant automatic reboots for updates, really puts a spanner in the works, if the DC program doesn't auto-start in the background when it reboots.

 

[mikeymikec]

Unless someone has hacked it to allow all day to be active, it's effectively useless.

IIRC it can be set to an 11 hour 'active' period.

 

[ElFenix]

It's 12, but either way, it's not near long enough.

 

[quikah]

these constant automatic reboots for updates, really puts a spanner in the works

Once a week is now considered constant? Wow...

 

[ElFenix]

i set it to notify to download then install updates and now it pesters me about installing AV definition updates.

i have no idea how they came up with the brilliant idea of not having separate controls for weekly/monthly OS updates vs. near daily AV updates.

 

[deustroop]

The updates are nuts here. I run v1511 build 10586.753 and have the latest updates to this install. Yet I have now received three days in a row " feature updates to v 1607 ". Major installs with the slow reboot and second reboot after the install.

I first thought well this is your anniversary thingy but no, I still have the November release. So "feature updates" must be the updates to 1607 but installing on this machine ? And apparently won't stop ?

Anyone else running 1511 and receiving 1607 updates?

Edit

I notice that http://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-windows-10-anniversary-update#windowsupdate
states that the 1607install is named the very thing I am receiving.

"Once your device connects successfully with the Windows Update servers, the update — listed as Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607 — will begin downloading, then simply click the Restart Now button, and Windows 10 will proceed to finish the installation. This process works in the same way as regular updates work for Windows 10."

Has anyone received 1607 in installments ?

Edit

The machine is in an apparently endless series of installs of the Feature Update , all day.
I have a clone with the same problem so I tried the Windows Update file Windows10upgrade 9252
but that didn't install 1607. And the Feature Updates keep coming.

 

[deustroop]

I tried the ISO upgrade which throws up this error

"Install failed during safe os phase with an error during the prepare rollback operation".

A search suggests that I should disable the other attached ssds (with UEFI) in the box.

 

[Craig234]

Daily I get an error flash of 'Windows update not installed'. When I clicked it, it says update 1607 not installed. If I click more it has a button to 'fix problems' and install.

Do I want to?

 

[deustroop]

Daily I get an error flash of 'Windows update not installed'. When I clicked it, it says update 1607 not installed. If I click more it has a button to 'fix problems' and install.

Do I want to?

Do you have a workable alternative ?

 

[Craig234]

Do you have a workable alternative ?

Not clicking it?

 

[deustroop]

Decisions, decisions, decisions,
To press or not press.
The odds are 1/2
50/50 either way.
Balanced probability so I cannot give a recommendation.
But
What you gotta watch out for here are
Unintended Consequences.

So make sure you back up everything .

 

[Craig234]

I was looking for something slightly more evidence-based.

 

[JackMDS]

Look for the Update Settings Window, click on Update and see what it yields.

 

[Craig234]

I'm looking more for informed opinion than 'look at it'. There were reports of problems earlier.

 

[JackMDS]

Opinion??? @Twit is a Good place for Opinion, technology is based on facts.

What is so scary about clicking on Update and see what it seeks to Install?

In any case Clicking on" Help" and "About" Windows will show the Win 10 versi on and latest Update.

The line at the edge of the Arrow indicates Win 10 Version 1607 Update 693 ( the most recent Ver/Update).

.

 

[Craig234]

Jack, we're not communicating and I'm getting a little offended which I'm sure you don't mean.