Windows Updates

[woodchopper]

My computer hate Windows 10 - has completely fouled it up since day one and wish I had never installed it - have had to turn off Windows updates because it keeps getting caught in an update loop and crashing every time it tries to update.
However the plot thickens - when I change account to my sons for example it tries to update despite me being the administrator having turned the updates off - what is going on that I cant shut them off completely?

[Bertrum]

Updates are obligatry with Windows 10

[Buenchico]

As Bertrum indicates, part of the small print that came with the so-called 'update' to Windows 10 was a proviso that users MUST accept updates onto their machines, with (theoretically, at least) no option to block them.

However, during the beta trials of Windows 10, there were howls of protest from people with internet accounts which limited the amount of data that could be transferred without incurring additional costs. So Microsoft built in an option for users to label their connection as 'metered'. Enabling that option blocks automatic downloads of Windows updates:
http://www.howtogeek.com/226722/how-when-and-why-to-set-a-connection-as-metered-on-windows-10/

[ivor4781]

some updates take hours to upload and install specially the anniversary win10 update,never turn it off when its doing so leave it on overnight this is where people get problems by switching it off

[Old_Geezer]

You can block them. It requires a little registry editing etc..

(Presently I'm being asked, for at least the forth time, to download KB3197954. Since I have apparently already download and installed it at least 3 times, I'm ignoring it for now. MS doesn't pay for my monthly broadband allowance so have no right to try to muck me up with multiple downloads of the same thing.)

[ivor4781]

OG
did it install successfully on previous downloads ? or say failed?

[Old_Geezer]

No failure message. Have no reason to assume it did.
Darned annoying though.