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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:57AM (#697503)

    Windows 10 came on my new laptop 2 years ago. I didn't want it. I wanted a machine with at least a decent I5 CPU and at least 16GB ram. So, I installed Ubuntu. It was a pain in the ass. Seriously. Even with my experience dual booting Windows and Linux in the past this was crappy. I found what I needed to do in a forum. Made the USB like it needed to be made, used Windows to make the UEFI change - which was galling but the easiest way to just get it working. Got Ubuntu working with the intention of booting into Windows if required. Perhaps putting Windows 7 on at some point. I've never used Windows 10 on this machine. It's there, sitting like a toad at the bottom of a pond. I thought I'd switch back to play games. It just never happened. Now I play games that run on Ubuntu.

    Soon I'll need to wipe this machine to update Ubuntu or replace it with something else. Ubuntu has been good to me. It works. Multi monitor support is good. Can plug the TV into it. NVidia card support blows, but I really should get off my ass and fix that with the new install and do it right the first time. Updating has caused problems but I think I've got it's quirks down now. Perhaps I'll try Mint next time or Devuan. Not Windows thought. I don't game like I used to. I can live without my Windows only software. The HP scanner works. VMs work well.

    I really like Windows. I do. Explorer is excellent. The Linux replacement's don't cut it yet, but they are getting better. Drive removal and install was better in Windows. Some things were better. Why did Microsoft have to screw it all up? Linux could have just been a hobby for me.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 25 2018, @02:53PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday June 25 2018, @02:53PM (#698142) Journal

    Windows 10 came on my new laptop 2 years ago. I didn't want it. I wanted a machine with at least a decent I5 CPU and at least 16GB ram. So, I installed Ubuntu. It was a pain in the ass. Seriously. Even with my experience dual booting Windows and Linux in the past this was crappy.

    Yeah, the Ubuntu installer sucks. I thought Ubuntu would be a good choice when I was building a media center PC last year, but after a few issues with the installer (features I needed that simply weren't supported, and known bugs in default options that caused the entire install to crash every time) I ended up going with Fedora. Very happy with that choice. Fedora's got a great installer and it's a solid low-maintenance distro.

    I found what I needed to do in a forum. Made the USB like it needed to be made, used Windows to make the UEFI change - which was galling but the easiest way to just get it working.

    Oh...that sounds like it's just the usual issue that Windows doesn't come with proper system tools the way Linux does. All you really need is dd.

    I really like Windows. I do. Explorer is excellent. The Linux replacement's don't cut it yet, but they are getting better. Drive removal and install was better in Windows.

    This I'm curious about...I have no end of problems with Windows systems that won't detect or won't auto-mount drives. You know when you plug in a drive and Windows immediately says to just format the drive and wipe everything out? Usually those are still readable in Linux; often they're still readable in Windows too if you go into the drive manager and manually mount the thing. It's particularly common with SD cards IME. That doesn't happen in Linux -- I insert the drive, it pops right up in the file manager, and I use it. And when I'm done, I press eject and it's gone. And if not it actually explains why instead of just giving some generic "The operation failed" error message.