InControl: A Free (as in Beer) Tool to Manage Windows Updates
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If you read my last post regarding my experience with Windows 11, you’ll know that I was not too impressed with it. In fact, I was so dissatisfied that I nuked and paved my Windows machine and went back to Windows 10 and I’m quite comfortable staying here for as long as I can. Well, unfortunately, at my job we’ve started noticing Windows 11 popping up on random users’ PCs. We in IT certainly didn’t push the upgrade, and the users don’t have the permissions required to run updates anyway, so I did some digging and it sounds like Redmond has decided that they know what is best for everyone, just like they did with the ribbon UI in Office, and are starting to issue full OS upgrades through your run of the mill Windows Updates. I actually caught a machine getting ready to reboot to run the upgrade and was able to stop it. So it got me trying to find a quick and efficient way to pump the breaks on this ridiculous decision.
InControl: A Free (as in Beer) Tool to Manage Windows Updates
InControl: A Free (as in Beer) Tool to Manage…
InControl: A Free (as in Beer) Tool to Manage Windows Updates
If you read my last post regarding my experience with Windows 11, you’ll know that I was not too impressed with it. In fact, I was so dissatisfied that I nuked and paved my Windows machine and went back to Windows 10 and I’m quite comfortable staying here for as long as I can. Well, unfortunately, at my job we’ve started noticing Windows 11 popping up on random users’ PCs. We in IT certainly didn’t push the upgrade, and the users don’t have the permissions required to run updates anyway, so I did some digging and it sounds like Redmond has decided that they know what is best for everyone, just like they did with the ribbon UI in Office, and are starting to issue full OS upgrades through your run of the mill Windows Updates. I actually caught a machine getting ready to reboot to run the upgrade and was able to stop it. So it got me trying to find a quick and efficient way to pump the breaks on this ridiculous decision.