Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
by detaro on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:17PM
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In the Pro version you also can set it to "always ask before downloading updates", and that has worked reliably for me so far.
Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
by dspillett on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:46PM
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Pro licences here. Can't say as I've found an option like that. Is it relatively new? I've not dug around terably recently. Everything else people have suggested either hasn't worked or did for a while then changed after an update.
Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
by detaro on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:53PM
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Group Policy for Windows Update "configure automatic updates" can be set to "notify for download".
Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
by dspillett on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:57AM
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I'm pretty sure I've tried that and it reset itself a time later.
Looking again now, there seems to be no such option. I can defer updates for a fixed number of days (with separate settings for quality updates and feature updates), which might be useful if the defer is cancelled by a manual "check and install updates" rather than having to reset the setting to get them to install at a convenient time rather than waiting for them to go in at Windows' will at the end of the defer period.
You could try running a server version of Windows instead, but you might find yourself unsupported in other ways (some hardware drivers, some software deliberately refusing to run or accidentally doing so due to using a broken compatibility check) in that case. The license will also cost a chunk more currency.