I have one Windows 10 system on 1909 that works fine as it is. I tried updating to 20H2 and it killed my analog capture card - half the ports weren't recognized and the others ran at like a third of the right framerate - so I reverted. Then good ol Windows tried to push the update anyways, so I went through some online guides to disable it (setting the target version in the registry, turning off autoupdates, etc).
Microsoft kept insisting, for a while I had to be careful how I shut down my computer because if I pressed the "update and shut down" button instead of just shut down it would install the version that effectively bricks my hardware. I changed some more settings and it was fine again.... until today.
Pops up one of those dim-the-whole-screen-and-stay-on-top messages with no option to deny the update (even though these have been explicitly disabled). Canceled the first, showed up when the computer was idling a second time, and without so much as a countdown, it rebooted the system and installed 20H2 while an a content creation program was active and the primary thing on the screen (thankfully not working on anything at the time).
I immediately reverted again, but I NEED this to stick. I was actually screaming profanities at Microsoft when it happened because I absolutely know that the thing they forced on my machine would break it and it absolutely broke it in the predictable way and I absolutely explicitly forbade it from doing exactly this.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this stick? It has to be online, I can't just air gap the network, and they are still offering some other updates over windows update so I'd rather not just fully kill the process, but I NEED it to stop trying to force the update and I NEED to disable these full screen update messages I had already disabled in the past.
Microsoft kept insisting, for a while I had to be careful how I shut down my computer because if I pressed the "update and shut down" button instead of just shut down it would install the version that effectively bricks my hardware. I changed some more settings and it was fine again.... until today.
Pops up one of those dim-the-whole-screen-and-stay-on-top messages with no option to deny the update (even though these have been explicitly disabled). Canceled the first, showed up when the computer was idling a second time, and without so much as a countdown, it rebooted the system and installed 20H2 while an a content creation program was active and the primary thing on the screen (thankfully not working on anything at the time).
I immediately reverted again, but I NEED this to stick. I was actually screaming profanities at Microsoft when it happened because I absolutely know that the thing they forced on my machine would break it and it absolutely broke it in the predictable way and I absolutely explicitly forbade it from doing exactly this.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this stick? It has to be online, I can't just air gap the network, and they are still offering some other updates over windows update so I'd rather not just fully kill the process, but I NEED it to stop trying to force the update and I NEED to disable these full screen update messages I had already disabled in the past.
