Windows 10 Anniversary Update Issues

[jmarket]

As you may have heard, Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) has been released and is supposed to fix many issues and bring enhancements. However, with it comes some very serious bugs and flaws as well as incompatibilities with some software and hardware. A couple of these are:

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[li]BSOD when installing the AU when running Avast - LINK[/li][li]Older hardware are incompatible with the new update[/li][li]Some software can’t run in the new update[/li][li]The AU will fail with one of many error codes. Most common one is 0x80070057[/li][/ul]
We advise against updating until these issues have been sorted out. For those on W10 Home, this guide will help you disable W10 updates. For those on W10 Pro and higher, this guide would be the one for you.

[Papa_D]

How do we dis able updates in Win 10? It is different from Win 7. Seems like alot of things in 10 have been made more difficult to change, like you have to really click around to get to what you want. Not happy about the stuff you have to go thru to disable edge either LOL. Anyways, I can google it. I just thought it might be nice to have directions here for those theat may want to disable. For now , mine is defered and I could nt find an option for, Let me choose what updates to install.

[jmarket]

The easiest way is to make W10 think you’re on a metered connection. I’ll post a guide shortly on how to do so

[jmarket]

I have created a guide on how to set your connection as a Metered Connection This is the easiest and best method to prevent W10 from automatically downloading and installing OS updates. You’ll have to do it manually. If you have Windows 10 Pro, you can disable it from the Group Policy Editor by following this guide.

[Rustys]

From what I have read online from various sites and Microsoft that telling Windows 10 that you are metered only works in you are using WiFi.

If I remember correctly this does not prevent some of the updates form going through like the high priority ones.

[driver_ian]

There is this method of disabling them..

To turn off Windows Updates in Windows 10 using the Windows Update service.
Open the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
In the Services window, scroll down to Windows Update and turn off the process.

[veeg]

There is this method of disabling them..

To turn off Windows Updates in Windows 10 using the Windows Update service.
Open the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
In the Services window, scroll down to Windows Update and turn off the process.

Yeah Ian that is what i did as well.

[jmarket]

From what I have read online from various sites and Microsoft that telling Windows 10 that you are metered only works in you are using WiFi.

If I remember correctly this does not prevent some of the updates form going through like the high priority ones.

Ethernet can indeed be set as metered, but it requires a Registry tweak. Metered connections block OS updates, I don’t believe they block higher priority updates, so you are correct on that.

driver_ian is correct too. That method will work as well

[jmarket]

Ok I have created a new guide for those that have W10 Home, which I think is the majority of consumers. I have credited driver_ian for providing that info.

[Rustys]

There is this method of disabling them..

To turn off Windows Updates in Windows 10 using the Windows Update service.
Open the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
In the Services window, scroll down to Windows Update and turn off the process.

The best thing about this works in all version of windows.

[Pancake]

I must admit. I’m not a great fan of W 10

[jmarket]

I have become a fan of Windows 10, so much nicer than 7 and 8. No big revelation but if you have pro and above versions of those O/S’s you can also control updates through the group policy editor. Have also seen where the group policy editor can be added to the lower versions of Windows, but that may or may not be advisable?

[Papa_D]

I am still on the fence with Win 10. I like it, but I am also experiencing weird issues which may or may not be win 10. There, I basically said nothing.

[jmarket]

Nothing seems to polarize people like Windows 10, and yes it wasn’t all that long ago I moved a second PC to 10. I cant see any reason to want to go back to what some people see as the holy grail of computing that is in the form of Windows 7. Sure 7 was nice, but 8.1 is also nice,10 is so much more so. Who know Windows 10 may turn out to be another of Micro$oft’s great lemons, but only time will tell.

I cant think of a single application that doesn’t look fresher or perform better on 10, maybe I’m in for a sudden wake up? Having toyed with the pre release version of 10 which was quite honestly bloody awful, and sure 10 has got a bad name because of Microsloth’s snooping policy, but with a little coercing 10 can be bought in line and taught to behave. Give it a chance..oh, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

[Papa_D]

I have disabled update service, thank you for the tip! Now can I still manually get it to check for updates and select ones I want/need?