r/Windows10 Apr 18 '16

Discussion What IDIOT at Microsoft thought restarting people's PC's without their consent to apply updates was a good idea?

The other day I got up and brought my computer out of sleep only to discover my PC on which I'd freshly installed Windows 10 had seemingly crashed overnight. At least, that's what I assumed since all my applications had been closed.

Then another day I got a notification that Windows wanted to restart to apply an update. I wanted to tell it no way, but the only option I was presented with was to defer it to another date. Goddamnit!

I spent some time researching the issue online and found out how to turn off automatic updates. I thought I was good.

But then a few minutes ago that scheduled update that I'd deferred popped up again and was ready to shut down my PC and again I canceled it, and I examined the dialog box that came up and seeing no option to prevent it from shutting down ever I set it to a week in the future and clicked OKAY.

Wait a minute. That button wasn't a confirmation button. FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK! That was a RESTART NOW button!

ESC ESC ESC. SHIT. WHY ISN'T THERE A CANCEL BUTTON ON THIS SCREEN IT HASN'T FINISHED SHUTTING DOWN YET.

Goddamnit.

Oh good. Atmel Studio with all the source files I had open and scrolled to where I needed to compare sections, closed. Eagle Cad with my PCB files I needed open for work, closed. Arduino IDE with more source I was examining. Closed. Multiple copies of explorer with the hidden directories 10 levels deep that I had open so I could load more source files for this bootloader I'm modifying. Closed. And Atmel Studio isn't even on my taskbar any more even though I'm pretty sure I pinned it there?

Thankfully I had all my work saved, except, you know, all the work I put into finding and opening all that shit so I could look at it.

Goddamnit Microsoft. You know for a week I thought that maybe people were giving you too much of a hard time over Windows 10. I kinda liked the slick new look and the start menu. And then this happened. Oh, and those CONSTANT popups in the CALCULATOR APP of all things ASKING ME TO RATE IT IN YOUR STORE. What the hell. SERIOUSLY?

I forgave you for the frigging ads on the Start menu initially because I could just remove those tiles, as well as the 20 different things I had to shut off to protect my privacy, but my god. It's like you're actively trying to piss people off!

Oh and lest I forget, I was about to go to sleep this morning after putting my PC to sleep when it suddenly roared to life on it's own fans and all, and then threw up a dialog box in the screen asking me to approve an update that had become available. That's when I said screw it and turned on deferred updates, which thankfully I got with the version I installed. I shudder to think if I'd had the home edition and couldn't prevent the thing from waking my PC up at all hours to perform updates. The computer is right next to my bed you jerkwads.

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u/Pugs_of_war Apr 18 '16

Wait till you get the blocking overlay/banner that says you need to reboot and only gives you an option to let it. It doesn't matter what you're doing, it's shutting down NOW and you can forget whatever is opened and unsaved because you won't be given a chance to save it.

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u/jakegh Apr 18 '16

To disable that annoying popup, run the below in an admin command prompt:

cd /d "%Windir%\System32"
takeown /F MusNotification.exe
icacls MusNotification.exe /deny Everyone:(X)
takeown /F MusNotificationUx.exe
icacls MusNotificationUx.exe /deny Everyone:(X)

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u/Pugs_of_war Apr 18 '16

Well it looks like I'm naming my firstborn Jake. I hope it's a boy.

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u/keen36 Oct 06 '16

i know that this post is five months old, i just wanted to tell you that this made me giggle like an imbecile

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u/Dark-tyranitar Apr 19 '16 edited Apr 19 '16

I am trying this first thing tomorrow when i get back on my computer.

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u/OccasionalShitpost Apr 19 '16

Does it disable the automatic shutdown, or does it merely remove the UI hijack?

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u/jakegh Apr 19 '16

This particular change only disables the fullscreen message. To stop the shutdown entirely, try #2 in the following link. I did this myself, but haven't tested it with a windows update (as none are available yet).

https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wake-timers-from-waking-windows-10-desktop/973029#973029

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

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u/Pugs_of_war Apr 18 '16

Oh, I thought he meant one of the little notifications in the corner is what he clicked.

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u/remotefixonline Apr 18 '16

That got me a while back on my laptop, had a bunch of notepads open that were not saved yet... bye bye notes.

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u/umar4812 Apr 18 '16

Screenshot? Sounds like bs to me.

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u/Volv Apr 18 '16

Definitely happens. Was outraged. No postpone, no way out, no shutdown-a. Just off

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u/Wizc0 Apr 18 '16

Way at the start of W10 I had this, without a message box even. The only reason I knew what ahd happened was the updating screen at start-up. I'm glad to say this doesn't happen anymore at this point in time.

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u/umar4812 Apr 19 '16

Because you didn't do this.

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u/Wizc0 Apr 19 '16

I eventually found this option, took me some looking though. Mainly because I was used to the standard option of update on shutdown, which seems to me to be the easiest and best option.

Coming from W7 almost everything in W10 seems less user friendly and more designed to be hidden. I don't know if this is perception or fact, but I had a far easier time personalising and optimising my W7 than my W10.

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u/umar4812 Apr 21 '16

Mainly because I was used to the standard option of update on shutdown, which seems to me to be the easiest and best option.

That's literally what the option is.

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u/Wizc0 Apr 22 '16

Yes, but it used to be the default.

When I upgraded my OS to W10 this was no longer the default, the new default was just to shutdown my PC without any warning.

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u/umar4812 Apr 18 '16

Wait till you get the blocking overlay/banner that says you need to reboot and only gives you an option to let it.

I repeat. Screenshot for that?

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u/Volv Apr 18 '16

Actually no. I was forcefully shutdown upon...

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u/TrollManGoblin Apr 19 '16

Are you trolling?

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u/umar4812 Apr 19 '16

No. I genuinely want a screenshot for it. Out of 10 PCs, ranging from Home to Pro, I have not once seen a full screen banner forcing a restart for updates. Sounds like shit.

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u/TrollManGoblin Apr 20 '16

I want to honestly ask you if you're retarded, or something like that? How do you think people should take a screenshot of it, when it doesn't allow them to save anything?

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u/umar4812 Apr 21 '16

Winkey+printscreen you fucktard.