About to get screwed
 

Ack, windows is gonna force an update, I have a task running since last night that will have to start over from scratch if shutdown, it has only four hours left.

Wish I knew how to cancel this sucker, just a few minutes, ack!

Kill the update service or disconnect the internet?

I would think it'd have pre-downloaded before prompting for a restart, but we'll see. If that computer doesn't restart now that I've pulled the plug you've saved me. :)

I did change the settings for update to download and prompt from download and auto, but still got a 5m warning timer.

Not knowledgeable enough to find more options, and haven't found answers from searching.(yet)

Changed update settings, still got 5m timer, unplugged, and closed in task manager something that might of ran the update, but I'm not sure.

Definitely past the 15m timer now with it still running. One or some combo of the three has delayed it.

With all the versions of Windows I have ever used from 2.0 through 10 the issue of updates and security patches always has come up. In ALL cases you can configure these to happen at a time you select so you can watch it, look to see what is in it and finally when to do any reboots. A simple Google search will list the steps to do this for both home versions and also the server versions too.

If your computer is for work I would hope you have a "test" machine to do the update on first so you do not crash everything just in case?! I the case of a home computer generally most people do not have this BUT can do and setup a "restore" point so you can back up if things go to the pits. You do have a restore point don't you..........

The shutdown command has a parameter of /a to abort a system shutdown. Not sure if it applies to updates.



Open a command prompt.
shutdown /a

Good luck

This is helpful, something shut it down already though, but I'm not sure at which thing I did cut the sequence. I still got a 5m warning after changing how update should work, but I also noticed the restart button's text had changed.

I used to back in the day, I am not sure what the settings are on the new one. After initial setup I've been putting it to use from an off line location. The only change to its setup as received, was figuring out how to turn its CPU splitting off that came by default. I found out it was called hyper-threading, shut that down, and it's the only change I've made. Since my software was written for 64 cores, hyper threading was fixing an artificial limit. When physical 64 cores were divided by hyper threading; I was only partially using the abilities of the system.

Windows 10? Even with Pro I had to use local policy editor to prompt for download, prompt for install. Otherwise it would download and install at a whim, automatically restarting afterwards. Very annoying when in the middle of a presentation.

Windows Erver 2012 R2 Standard.

I have had a windows 10 lap top I from work I sometimes use, holy crap crap crap is that thing update crazy.

And it stealths them on you to, downloads without notifying, but doesn't isntall. I go to an offline location, and BAAAAM update!

What the mother ducking quack? Really good when it locks into an update in an off line location without power, and low battery. Weeee-doggy.

I had to skeddaddle with it sitting in the passenger seat to a place with power so it wouldn't battery out during an update.

Network was off, wireless was off, no connection, just boom, restarting to install an update.