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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by signal11 on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:56PM (#14343108)
Seriously. Active Hours was such a terrible idea, how did it move past the design stage?

There were some hilarious hacks to disable the Update Orchestrator and prevent the reboots. They work well, although allegedly you should not need them any more with the new Creators Update OS refresh.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by criddell on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:40PM (#14343466)
Why does the computer even have to ask what the active hours are? If anything knows when the computer is being used, it's the computer.
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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by edzorg on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:01PM (#14343641)
Amen
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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by dghughes on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:27PM (#14343859)
Isn't it partly because Microsoft laid off all the QA testers? As mentioned on Barnacules' video July 2014.
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