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
(Score: 3, Funny) by Apparition on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:39AM (4 children)
Come now, be sensible. Windows 98 Second Edition was much more stable than Windows 95, at least update to that. :P
(Score: 3, Interesting) by toddestan on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)
The problem with Windows 98 also includes Windows Update, whereas Windows 95 does not (though I'm not sure if you get it if you install IE4 on Windows 95). So if you want to keep Microsoft's hands off your system you really should stick with Windows 95.
With that said, does Windows Update even still work for Windows 98 or did Microsoft finally shut it off?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Apparition on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:11AM
IIRC, Microsoft disabled Windows Update for Windows 98 around 2011.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @06:45AM
uhm. you may have gotten carried away for a bit.
if you really want to keep microsoft's hands off your system, you install something non-microsoft.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:47AM
Windows 98? May as well use Ubuntu. They are equivalent.