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    From Axel@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, March 26, 2026 20:20:05

    windows turns stuff on that you've turned off after upgrades

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXaqZy8Zhg

    --
    Linux Mint 22.3


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From JJ@3:633/10 to All on Friday, March 27, 2026 04:39:11
    On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:59:55 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:
    ... if you work out how to turn updates off

    IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From JJ@3:633/10 to All on Friday, March 27, 2026 16:02:20
    On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:29:56 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote

    ... if you work out how to turn updates off

    IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

    That's only for Pro and Enterprise
    https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

    Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are available in
    all editions. Though some policy settings won't have any effect because the associated features are either absent or hardcodedly disabled.

    AFAIK, MS' Group Policy Editor is not avaiable as separately download. We'd have to get it from a Windows edition CD/ISO which has it. But there's at
    least one proper group policy editor application from third party.

    https://github.com/Fleex255/PolicyPlus

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From JJ@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, March 28, 2026 02:37:39
    On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:54:20 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote

    ... if you work out how to turn updates off

    IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

    That's only for Pro and Enterprise
    https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

    Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the
    convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are available >> in all editions.

    But there is nothing to stop MS from
    resetting those any time it likes.

    True. It's annoying. The purpose of updates/hotfixes are being abused by MS.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Axel@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, March 28, 2026 13:29:38
    Rod Speed wrote:
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote
    JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote

    ... if you work out how to turn updates off

    IIRC, there's a policy setting to persistently turn off auto-update.

    That's only for Pro and Enterprise
    https://g.co/gemini/share/db5830d7488e

    Yes, but that's just the Group Policy Editor MMC application (i.e. the >>>> convenient setting editor). The policy settings themselves are
    available?? in all editions.

    But there is nothing to stop MS from
    resetting those any time it likes.

    True. It's annoying.

    And you can obviously? automate setting it the way
    you want it and have it do that as often as it needs to

    The purpose of updates/hotfixes are being abused by? MS.

    Its very arguable? that it is abuse or just MS trying to stop
    stupid people from being stupid and risking their systems

    anyone who use M$ if they don't need to is stupid

    --
    Linux Mint 22.3


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From JJ@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, March 28, 2026 17:06:31
    On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:40:00 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

    Its very arguable that it is abuse or just MS trying to stop
    stupid people from being stupid and risking their systems

    I doubt MS is not part of that stupidity, considering that the frequency of
    how their hotfixes break the system rather than fixing it, kept rising.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)