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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by whamlastxmas on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:17PM (#20805418)
In other news, I still cannot disable Windows update on the home edition. I've spent hours and hours and virtually every solution I can find other than giving MS more money to upgrade.

Updates keep failing on my machine, which means it just tried again the next day and forces a restart, closing everything I have. Fails day after day after day. I'm not sure why, I frankly don't care. Just ridiculous how impossible it is to disable.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by Someone1234 on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:23PM (#20805457)
> Updates keep failing on my machine

By any chance did you run some script or random "de-bloat" tool someone linked? Half of those break Windows Update and cause it to keep failing (either via setting permissions, host file changes, or registry alterations).

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by whamlastxmas on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:23PM (#20816562)
No. I think it's related to my full disk encryption that uses a custom boot loader or whatever
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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by PerusingAround on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:13AM (#20807934)
Exactly.
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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by Totoradio on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:48AM (#20806659)
This page https://decentsecurity.com/#/holiday-tasks/ contains a lot of tricks to get Windows Update back on its feet (and loads of stuff to cleanup a Windows PC too)
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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by JohnFen on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:46PM (#20815521)
I have the opposite problem -- I can't make Windows update actually do its thing. It's not a problem that I really want to be solved, though.
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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by lysp on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:20PM (#20805432)
Do a search for "reset windows update".

There are a few scripts around which will clear all the cache files and allow you to attempt the update from scratch.

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