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posted by mrpg on Saturday June 23 2018, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the systemd dept.

If you've been trying to keep Microsoft's forced updates and upgrades off your machine, your job just got harder. With KB 4056254, we now have a new Win10 Update Facilitation Service joining its comrade-in-arms Update Assistant V2 to ensure no patch gets blocked.

You can look at the new KB 4056254 Win10 Update Facilitation Service and the re-emergence of Win10 Update Assistant V2 from two different perspectives. On the one hand, you have those poor hapless Win10 users who accidentally munged Windows Update. On the other hand, you have folks with bazookas and flamethrowers who want to keep some semblance of control over updating their machines.

Both groups now face two different Microsoft initiatives to reset Windows Update.

[...] Seems, from April to June 2018, some savvy Win 10 users have found new ways to disable or block Windows Update. So, M$ has to come out with KB4056254 to "neutralize" their efforts. It's like a cat-and-mouse game.

Which seems to me like the core of the matter. It's not nice to mess with Mother Microsoft's patching schemes, so you're going to get a few new services running in the background to whop your system upside the head if you dare to block patches.

Sources:
Win10 Update Facilitation Service joins Update Assistant V2 to make sure you get patched | Computerworld
Watch out: Win10 Update Facilitation as a Service and a new push for the Update Assistant | AskWoody


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:29PM (#697381)

    I have few 4 Win10 in house, the rest are ALL Linux. Must keep wife happy. 2 college daughters with Windows only schools (idoits - schools not daughters). And one Win10 work box that allwos them to interoperate and share linux world "simpler".

    MS has been bricking that machine daily since Nov. Yes bricking is strong, words, but it is completely out of control for 8hrs per day, as Win10 tries again and again and again to load its current and greatest patch. 64bit procesor, 2gb of memory and 120SDD. Basicly little work house, also handles printers and a 3d printer.

    MS cannot get beyond 83% loaded, before it declares failure and reloads the old version again. I have killed, deactivated and load reg key to say all my networks are metered. I just spent 2days rebuilding it from backup, after the last ry hosed the MSFT space and could not run check disk. I found while doing on this that IO-Bit software was the function that to loaded a MS patch to fix a "security hole". Instead it nailed the machine again afte a month of working right. IO-Bit another bad actor who was good.

    In the end this goal of MS is to kil the PC, since Intel and AMD have not brought a new chip in years that actually improves performance for the average joe. YES, we allneed a 16core, 32 thread to write an email "not". Maybe if the start designing computer again, they will realized that not EVERY THING needs to run on the main cpu. and ARM chips will really win.

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