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# Wu10Man

Anyone else annoyed by the forced automatic updates on Windows 10? Me too! Sadly, some of the basic things like setting a group policy or disabling a service aren't quite enough to get it to stop. So, I wrote this application to try to get a better way to interrupt what Windows 10 Update is trying to do.
This started out as a project to shut down the Windows Update mechanic. It grew from there as Microsoft tweaked how they ran and protected the update service. It probably would have died there, but it seems people are liking this application. Version 3.1.0 has over 10k downloads! So I've felt a little obiligated to keep this updated.

This is broken down into 4 parts: group policy, disabling services, blocking urls, and pausing updates.
With the latest update, I realized another major annoyance of Windows 10 is a lot of bloatware. Random apps that either aren't needed or that are added bloatware.

## Group Policy
If you've found this a useful app, perhaps you'd like to <a class="bmc-button" target="_blank" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/weredev"><span style="margin-left:5px;font-size:28px !important;">buy me a coffee?</span></a>

If you have Windows 10 Home, you don't have access to the Group Policy Editor, but you can still set it via the registry. This application will make those updates for you, because who can remember where those settings are. This setting should be sufficient to block most automatic updates, but with some security updates, Microsoft will push those down regardless of these settings.

### Group Policy Options:
- **Enable Automatic Updates:** Allows updates to function as normal.
- **Disable Automatic Updates:** Disables automatic updates.
- **Notify of Download and Installation:** Provides notifications for download and install. Should function similar to older version of Windows that had this option.
- **Automatic Download, Notify of Installation:** Will automatically download updates, but provide notification before installation.

As a note, I'm not entirely sure that the Windows OS is listening to this anymore. I plan on looking into this an making updates to this at some point.

## Disabling Services:

When in doubt, you can disable the Windows 10 services that run the updates. There are two that seem to control everything: Windows Update Service and Windows Module Installer. On your own, you can disable them and things will be ok, but Windows has a couple tasks that will turn those back on. Some are set at an interval, some are set at startup. There is also a third: Windows Update Medic Service. This is a new service that Microsoft uses to turn on all the Windows Update stuff. It looks like this came out with an Oct 2018 update, and as over version 2.0.0, support for disabling the Medic service is also supported.
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A few months ago, Windows added a pause feature to some of the business license of Windows 10. Recently they added the ability to pause updates as well, but the UI only allows you to go out a few weeks. I added a screen that allows for a longer pause scenario. This isn't adding new functionality to Windows, only using the functionality that is built in. This feature will only work correctly on those versions of Windows that already support Pause/Defer.

## BETA - Declutter
Windows 10 comes with a lot of clutter. There's the random stuff that they install that aren't particularly necessary, and then there's the 3rd party apps that Windows tries to include. There's plenty of apps and scripts to remove a bunch of these, but I wanted to add it here as well so that I had a single solution.

This is still sort of in BETA, so definitely use with added caution.


## Legacy
With any application, somethings things just are no longer necessary. With that, there comes some depricated parts of this application as well. These parts aren't really supported any more, as much as this application has support.


### Group Policy

If you have Windows 10 Home, you don't have access to the Group Policy Editor, but you can still set it via the registry. This application will make those updates for you, because who can remember where those settings are. This setting should be sufficient to block most automatic updates, but with some security updates, Microsoft will push those down regardless of these settings.

#### Group Policy Options:
- **Enable Automatic Updates:** Allows updates to function as normal.
- **Disable Automatic Updates:** Disables automatic updates.
- **Notify of Download and Installation:** Provides notifications for download and install. Should function similar to older version of Windows that had this option.
- **Automatic Download, Notify of Installation:** Will automatically download updates, but provide notification before installation.


## Additional Info

### Admin Access
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- [Windows Service Authorization](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17031552/how-do-you-take-file-ownership-with-powershell/17047190#17047190)
- [Change Windows Service Password](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3876787/change-windows-service-password/3877268#3877268)
- [Windows 10, version 1709 basic level Windows diagnostic events and fields](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/basic-level-windows-diagnostic-events-and-fields-1709)
- [Understand the different apps included in Windows 10](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/apps-in-windows-10)
- [Remove-Win10-Apps](https://github.com/Digressive/Remove-Win10-Apps)
- [Windows10Debloater](https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater)

### Downloads
https://github.com/WereDev/Wu10Man/releases
## Downloads
[Wu10Man Download](https://github.com/WereDev/Wu10Man/releases)

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