

MusUx_LogonUpdateResults can not be disabled normally.MusUx_UpdateInterval On one PC I could disable it, on another I could not.There are some tasks that restricted/standard users can not even see. Note that whatever software you use to deal with scheduled tasks, it must run as an Admin user. SCHEDULED TASKSĪs with Services, try to disable all the Scheduled Tasks you can. My experience with the other two services (Update Orchestrator Service (UsoSvc) and Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSvc) has been inconsistent. You should be able to disable the legacy Windows Update Service (wuauserv) and the Windows Remediation Service (sedsvc).Windows 10 Update Facilitation Service (osrss) can not be stopped or disabled. Try to disable all the services involved with Windows Update. Note that this is not well worn territory, and I do not claim to be an expert on Windows Update.

This is because Windows Update keeps changing, in large part, to prevent people from doing just this. That leaves the Windows Firewall as our biggest hammer.Įvery Windows Service and Scheduled Task referred to below is not installed on every Windows 10 machine. And, like the Walking Dead, some services and tasks that we can disable, get re-enabled over time by the ones that can not be disabled. Microsoft has limited the first two options, some services and started tasks can not be disabled, even by Administrative users. With Windows 10, there are three aspects to disabling Windows Update: shutting down multiple Services, disabling many Scheduled Tasks and preventing the parts of Windows Update that can not be easily shut down from phoning home. This is a simplified, cheat sheet, version of that section.īack on Windows 7, it was so much easier to disable Windows Update, there was just one service to worry about. The most interesting section of that very long blog is A full frontal attack on Windows Update. My recent blog Defending against Windows 10 bug fixes discussed many options for postponing bug fixes but none, other than keeping the computer off-line, are foolproof. Just this week, Windows 10 bug fixes caused the Surface Book 2 to crash. Not only are there many instances where stability trumps patches, they have shown over and over again that their patches are not to be trusted. Bug fixes good, is their corporate mantra.

Microsoft can not conceive of a valid reason for a Windows 10 user not to want the latest bug fixes.
