Those exact issues finally got me to drop Win10 to run Linux on the desktop for the first time in most of a decade, and to not have Windows running on any of my machines for the first time since... god, 1992 or 1993? Something like that. Even the Win8 crapfest didn't make me abandon Windows. 10's bad.

And that's just my personal entertainment PC. I don't know how people who have to actually do work in that environment don't throw their machine off a balcony, or quit and go somewhere that lets them use a different OS. It's infuriating. I'd go nuts dealing with trying to be productive in Win10 5 days a week.

Oh yeah. On top of the fresh bloat it also reset lots of registry entries and other hidden features. Not a fan of that.

Very true. When I see things like the contacts app reappear, I know it's time to go through the privacy settings because Microsoft invariably resets many of them.

It's absolutely not the best tool in the world, but this one helps me a lot: https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/

You have summarized the exact reason(s) why I will not use Windows for the foreseeable future even though I do like Windows 10

its in group policy to not initiate a reboot if a user is logged in.

my guess is microsoft doesnt care about people who dont read the documentation.

AFAIK, the machine reboots no matter what if the update has a deadline that's reached.

I get what you are saying though.

not true, must be talking about different policies.

>Always automatically restart at the scheduled times = disabled

>No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations = enabled

>Delay Restart for scheduled installations = enabled

>Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations = disabled

never had a reboot since.