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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:05AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:05AM (#697463)

    That I could ditch Windows, but it sadly is simply a required OS as a video gamer. Linux is not a real alternative. About 10% of the video games I own have Linux versions, but they all say that they require Ubuntu, and can't guarantee compatibility with other Linux distros. I may as well stick with Windows in that case. Plus, a few multiplayer video games my friends and I play are Windows only.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:58AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:58AM (#697483)

    Games! Yes, I am so dependent upon code that I cannot write, cannot modify, and do not understand that I have no choice but to run Windows, and no choice but to let them hammer me with an upgrade to Windows 10, 10 for Armaggeddon. Do you have any idea how un-leet this makes you sound? Are you 14 years old? Have you no sense of decency, at long last, sir, have you no decency?

    #Impeach

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:00AM (#697497)

      Good thing that I never claimed to be "leet" then, eh?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:02PM (#697778)

      Found the incel! You don't use Windows like the rest of humanity because you hate women! Death to incels! Police be upon them!