Software/updated automatically downloading - Windows 10

MrMarvelous

MrMarvelous

MrMarvelous

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I'm hoping someone might be able to help me as this is seriously doing my nut in now.

Using Windows 10 and i've purposely disabled all the automatic software updates apart from Windows critical ones (security and general Windows updates). I've disabled this in Device installation settings and set it to 'No'.

Can someone tell me what the hell I need to do to turn all of the crap downloading in the background off?! I've just booted my PC, lo and behold i've got a new NVidia driver that's running in the background, something i've specifically set for it to not do.

I purposely try and keep the background processes to a minimum (11 when booting up & on desktop) as i've got quite an ageing PC and don't like crap that I don't need running in the background. I'm wondering if there's a setting i've missed or a Powershell script to turn this garbage off?

Many thanks.
 
1. you need nvidia driver running to get correct gpu support / unless your mean nvidia driver update

in Group policy (Computer -> Administration templates -> Windows)
confgure
* Automatic Updates to your required settings
* automatic updates Detection frequency
* do not Allow defferal scans to Windows UPdate
* do not include drivers in Windows updates (be aware it will stop all drivers)

believe this covers all but its late. :) this works effectively on 70 + manchines ive deployed
 
Rather than disabling the apps, why not uninstall them? Very easy to do with a couple of PowerShell commands:
Code: 
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
 
AFAIK there is no comprehensive way to stop it - some apps like Shutup10 will work to an extent but need updating when MS changes stuff, etc. even then they don't seem to have caught all behaviour.

It is something that annoys the **** out of me as it seems inevitable it does stuff like that at the most inconvenient moment.
 
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