Windows 10: Microsoft releases tool to hide or block unwanted updates daily – ZDNet France

Microsoft’s most controversial decisions in the design of Windows 10 is a fundamental change in how Windows Update works. Windows 10 Home offers no way to block security updates and new features. And even the Pro edition has only limited control over the updates.

This sparked an outcry among the testers of Windows 10, used for years to be able to choose from a menu of monthly updates. I heard isolated complaints (but legitimate) this week of Windows testers, who complain that put Nvidia driver update created chaos on their system. It updates a Windows tester long even managed to attract the attention of Gabe Aul (responsible Insiders Windows program).

 
While Windows 10 comes this week, Windows Update will not include this possibility, even though Microsoft has indeed a bug resolution tool as a package named KB3073930, which allows you to hide or block Windows updates and especially the drivers updates. This package is digitally signed to June 15, and its accompanying article in the Windows basic knowledge of him is dated July 7.

It is mentioned that this package should be used with Windows 10 Insider Preview but is based on the performance of the final version (10240) of the preview. So this package could work with the final release of Windows 10, scheduled July 29. And here’s what that looks like troubleshooting tool when you download and run:

If you have already determined that an update Windows or a driver delivered as part of a Windows Update package is causing problems, you can uninstall the faulty update or remove the problem driver.

Obviously, the One of Microsoft’s goals in changing the behavior of Windows Update in Windows 10 had to drag customers, kicking and screaming if necessary, into the world of ‘always updated’, by removing the process a large number of vectors attack for malware, unpatched systems.

I imagine that most people who are concerned about the possibility of a faulty update always râleront on this solution, which requires more intervention that current Windows Update options, which allow you to delay, obstruct and hide updates at will. But this is certainly an appropriate solution.

Also, if you find this intriguing utility, I recommend an additional trick to tweak Windows 10. By default, System Restore is turned off. If you re-enable this feature, Windows automatically creates again a restore point before installing each new batch of Windows Update patches, making it easier to block a whole batch updates while you investigate the one annoying. I will provide step by step instructions for that option later.

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