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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: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 25 2018, @02:53PM
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.
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.
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.