And Windows defender still can be disabled but it will be more effort for what it is worth.Īfter that, what has Microsoft locked or done that prevents users from doing anything easily? not really.īugs and weird crap on things that matter that really affect the usage of Windows are caused mostly by people anyway, by disabling so many things they don’t even know because “someone told me” or using some stupid 3rd party uninstaller or registry “cleaner” or fixer, and also the OEMs and their drivers, sometimes they don’t care enough and break things or don’t update as they should. The only negative change that Microsoft has done recently that has affected how people managed their devices when it comes to registry and all that is how you can’t disable Windows Defender easily, but just disabling the real-time protection should be enough for most people anyway. When you update your windows, it will restore some stuff because of the migration, what’s wrong about it? if people did it once, they can do it twice if not they can go to linux or whatever that will do the same but in a different way. This article is no more than fear and disinformation.
So in other words… you have no proof of anything and you only read the description of the update and pretend it will “break” changes that people have made to their windows that probably broke something unnecessarily.
They are the same version.)Īnd just a reminder: Sordum’s Windows Update Blocker is an all-or-nothing Windows-Update blocker, not a selective blocker/hider. (Notwithstanding the difference in dates and estimated file size, both downloads are exactly the same size and hash out exactly the same when downloaded.
(product page with download link and video tutorial). You can get it from the Wayback Machine, here: (Who can forget the piano teacher? Or Ned, the insurance salesman?)Īlso, wushowhide.diagcab is no longer available from Microsoft (as of around February 2021, from what I’ve seen on the Web). I remember laughing a lot more while watching Groundhog Day than I ever did after installing a Windows update that changed a bunch of my settings and customizations.