11-27-2019, 12:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2019, 12:22 AM by InterestedNewbie.)
Thanks Ron,
She's using Windows 10 Home so Group Policy sadly is not an option.
The main issue is that as soon as her 1803 version (1809 was skipped for some reason by WU probably because she has an older mainboard) is upgraded to 1903 (we haven't seen any upgrades to 1909 yet) a couple of important programs stop working because Windows Installer service immediately starts "repairing" them and fails. I don't believe the programs are damaged I think it's mostly a Windows Installer bug.
Back in the Windows 7 days I've encountered several Windows Installer issues myself. Mostly desktop shortcuts that caused issues and then creating new ones from the original executables solved the problem. Besides you could easily disable Windows Installer service but in Windows 10 that is no longer possible.
I'd still be interested in stopping WU service with QM, some quick Google searching indicates that it can be done with Batch/VBS files....
She's using Windows 10 Home so Group Policy sadly is not an option.
The main issue is that as soon as her 1803 version (1809 was skipped for some reason by WU probably because she has an older mainboard) is upgraded to 1903 (we haven't seen any upgrades to 1909 yet) a couple of important programs stop working because Windows Installer service immediately starts "repairing" them and fails. I don't believe the programs are damaged I think it's mostly a Windows Installer bug.
Back in the Windows 7 days I've encountered several Windows Installer issues myself. Mostly desktop shortcuts that caused issues and then creating new ones from the original executables solved the problem. Besides you could easily disable Windows Installer service but in Windows 10 that is no longer possible.
I'd still be interested in stopping WU service with QM, some quick Google searching indicates that it can be done with Batch/VBS files....