XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Frank Slootweg  wrote at 15:48 this Monday (GMT):   
   > candycanearter07  wrote:   
   >> ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.]   
   >   
   >   Ignored, because this is about Windows. (Not to mention that   
   > 'Followup-To:' is nearly always inappropriate.)   
      
   I've been told the opposite..   
      
   >> Frank Slootweg  wrote at 18:57 this Sunday (GMT):   
   >> > Newyana2  wrote:   
   >> > [...]   
   >> >   
   >> >>                                                  But Microsoft and   
   >> >> Linux are now both guilty of seat-of-the-pants updating. If it   
   >> >> isn't stopped, Windows will show a message at boot every few   
   >> >> days: "Please wait. Installing updates."   
   >> >   
   >> >   With "every few days" actually being *a month* and you only get a   
   >> > "Please wait." message if you're stupid enough not to set your 'Active   
   >> > hours'.   
   >> >   
   >> >   And "at boot every few days"!? My system is up from one monthly update   
   >> > cycle to the next, no silly business with booting in between.   
   >> >   
   >> > [...]   
   >>   
   >> I think I've heard of Windows ignoring that sometimes.   
   >   
   >   I think you've heard wrong. Never happened to me (for two systems,   
   > Windows 10 and 11) and I can't think of a scenario where it (your set   
   > 'Active hours') could be ignored.   
   >   
   >   You also can set Windows Update to pause for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 weeks and   
   > you can reset that pause before it runs out, so you can pause   
   > indefinitely.   
      
      
   Oh.   
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