Thread: Goodbye Windows 10

Well I've finally had a gut full of Windows 10.

Those miserable, incompetent arrogant bastards at Redmond have finally pushed me too far. My latest Win10 update, the ridiculously named 'fall' update has caused me to 'fall' from the Win10 OS.

I've been battling poor internet connection speeds and inability to connect for some time now and blamed it on the usual suspect, Telstra, my degraded rural copper connection and a push to NBN with consequent degradation of my existing service. I couldn't have been more wrong.

**** ing Microsoft Windows Update has been trying to install an updated version of Win10 but has been unable to do so, for several months according to my update history. The update to Win10 ver 1709 (the so called 'fall update') is so poorly written that it downloads, can't install so downloads again still can't install so downloads again and again and again and again ................ until my download limit is reached. Every now and again a pop up advises me that 'a Windows Update has failed' with a generic check virus scanner, run scandisk etc message but no specific reason and keeps on downloading and failing to install. A constant loop with no "hey, I've downloaded this 427 times perhaps I should give some sort of hint as to why installation fails and abort the ongoing download/fail cycle". Not the ignorant muppets at Microsoft, why would they ?, in the home of the brave and the land of the free obviously everyone has unlimited download volume/bandwidth and since when did Microsoft give a **** about anything to do with service ?, like many American company's don't give a rats about anything outside the continental US, sort of reminds me of the Microsoft PR campaign several years ago with the "trust Microsoft" theme, I laughed so much I nearly cried.

The main problem with this 'cyclic download' is that it gobbles up ALL router bandwidth at times effectively wiping out my PC, network and all internet connectivity. Talk about poorly written script, I'd expect a first year IT student to do better job than this.

Being an old bastard and relatively computer literate I've been an avid user of Microsofts products since I gave up IBM DOS and graduated to MS DOS 2 many, many moons ago. I'm currently typing this on my obsolete 32 bit, 4G RAM, Win 7 Core2Duo PC and what a pleasure it is to use compared to my 'current' 64 bit, 16G RAM, Win10, Core i5 SSD HDD PC. I've had viruses and malware less malevolent than **** ing Microsoft Windows Update.

Well the bastards at Microsoft have pushed me too far this time. I was never real happy with the enforced update regime that came with Win 10, the no Beta testing, money saving, enforced download and customer screwing "trust me I'm Microsoft" environment similar to that used by Apple.

The original Win10 was quite good despite my reservations about forced updates, brilliant driver and update support and better still no Cortana This unfortunately was a short lived 'fools paradise'. Soon after Cortana was forced down all Win10 users throats but fortunately could still be disabled in Group Policies. The search function took a bit of a hit but was well worth it to get rid of Cortana even though its memory allocation couldn't be recovered

Cut to the present, Windows 10 can't update to current version with no clues as to why and I'm over trying to figure out why but in the short term I need to disable auto update to get some control back over my PC/network. I figure editing local hosts and re directing auto updates to 127.0.0.1 should do the trick, has anyone out there done a similar thing ?

Ultimately I need a long term solution and it's NOT going to be the latest Win10. I fired up my Core i7 Win10 laptop which had no problems updating to current version but with typical Microsoft arrogance has decided to re name command prompt to some other silly name, installed a number of unsolicited game tiles/nuisanceware and continually pesters about downloading programs from a 'Windows Store' which I guess is a poor mans would have been if it could have been Android Apps/Play Store copy.

Sorry Microsoft Windows 10, but for this little black duck you've run your race ............ and lost, so as I see it I have the following options.

1/. Disable Win 10 auto update and keep my old Win10 version and 'go down with the ship'.

2/. Go Back To the Future and upgrade back to Win 7 and live happily ever after

3/. Bite the bullet and embrace the Penguin with Ubuntu, Open Office etc and completely cast off all Microsoft products.

note. Apple is not an option, IMO the only company that can out Microsoft even Microsoft for sheer amoral bastardry and also IMO the worst value for money IT products on the market.

Any suggestions ?

Deano

To stop Win 10 auto updating(ie. downloading of updates), you need to set a wifi connection to 'metered connection'.
This has to be hacked for an ethernet connection tho.

I've done this to my Win 10 prior to doing a cumulative update, which then changed back to auto(but haven't done the registry hack again since).

I just followed a tute I found online.

SEE HERE for what to do if you're on a ethernet connection.

I used the same instructions I found on windowscentral(I think) .. or somewhere like that.

Back then I was on a metered connection, and kids were killing it, so I updated my ISP plan to an unlimited .. so less of a hassle.

One way to manually install updates is via the Microsoft Updater Catalog. (google it).

Works ok, look for the updates download them to a location install them as needed.