Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by glitchc on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:11AM (#30944644)

Addendum: It is impossible to turn Windows Update off unless one is running an Enterprise License.

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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by CreatedAccount on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:20AM (#30944771)

I'm fairly certain you can accomplish it with a pro license as well.

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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by vetinari on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#30944861)

You can, by pointing your windows to a WSUS for updates. That WSUS doesn't have to really exist.

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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by cortic on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:47AM (#30945115)

I'm on Enterprise, and you can't actually turn it off permanently, after a time (maybe a reboot, or scheduled that i can't find) it just turns itself back on, and usually knackers my nvidia drives, even though i have it set to not update drivers, and even though i killed the medic service as well ffs.

Found a trick where you basically remove windows access rights to wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll, causing an error code 5 whenever it tries to run its update service.. so far its been stable. Not sure if this would work for other versions.

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