Re: Laptop replacement

On 28/03/2025 21:15, John Rumm wrote:

On 28/03/2025 13:19, mm0fmf wrote:

On 28/03/2025 13:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 28/03/2025 in message <vs64s0$2mjh4$1@dont-email.me> mm0fmf wrote:
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On 28/03/2025 12:23, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Along comes MSFT in the middle of the night and reboots

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Or you could, you know, set a group policy so that updates and reboots are 99% in your control. And just like that, these forced reboots are a thing of the past.
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Sure you eventually have to install updates and reboots but YOU get to chose when.

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Not seen that touted as a possible solution, do you have a link to an example please?
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I have Win10 Pro and set the following Group Policies
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Title: Notify to download updates
Source: Administrator
Type: Group Policy
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Title: Set Automatic Update Options
Source: Administrator
Type: Group Policy
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This means I get notifications that there updates to download but they are not automatically downloaded. If the update is deemed "important" by MS and you leave it "long enough" then eventually it will be automatically downloaded and applied and maybe the PC rebooted.
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MS decide what "important" and "long enough" are. But since switching to W10 Pro on this PC in 2018/9 and applying these policies a few weeks later, I have never had a forced download and installation of any updates.
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I did the changes through the Group Policy Editor. Can't remember now just what you do but Google Group Policy Editor and those titles and you should see how to make the changes.

 One complication to note is that the group policy editor is not installed on windows home. So you either have to find a clandestine way to install it, or tweak the corresponding registry settings that are normally the final effect of using gpedit.msc
 (or failing that just upgrade to pro)
 

I have Win 10 Pro and it simply notifies me that Updates are
available and I choose to download them. I must have set up
something on Win7 Pro that I upgraded from, because I don't
recollect making this choice on Win 10.
Annoyingly, updates for Edge just get blitzed in when I reboot
the m/c and I don't get asked. On a 32 bit m/c this can make
it unusable for a while.