I don't know if this is still the right way to go about this or not. And if Windows does an update that attempts to replace the task it shouldn't be allowed to due to file permissions. This meant Windows would still try to run the reboot task after downloading and installing an update, but it wouldn't do anything.

I backed up these tasks, then editing them to not reboot, then set them to read-only for all user accounts. Here there are a few entries that force Windows to reboot. In the Task Scheduler there is an entry for for the UpdateOrchestrator (under Microsoft > Windows). But before then we would go about doing this by changing the Task Scheduler. Personally we have tests running on remote RT controllers and so installing Windows Updates and restarting doesn't affect our tests. The version of ShutUp10 in this installer is also a little old, but I didn't want to update it not knowing if it worked.Īfter making this post I realized I this might be more helpful in a blog series with a bunch of stuff that I do to an environment to make things good. Just know the settings it will apply are the ones I like and use, and you may want to replace the cfg file with your own settings, then make a new installer. In the output folder is an installer that can be run.

And lastly I made this into an InnoSetup installer so all you have to do is run an EXE and all of this gets done for you.Īttached you'll find the InnoSetup config, along with everything else needed that I've mentioned here. I do this with a Powershell script I found online. One other optional thing I do is take a System Restore snapshot before apply thing. This will import the config on the current machine. This file can be used in a command line call like this: The first thing I did was run the tool on a Windows 10 machine and turn off all the things I don't care about. So this post is to mention how I've automated setting up Windows 10 machines using it. It is a pretty simple tool for turning off various telemetry data, among other things. When someone mentions these issues I usually reply with a tool called ShutUp10 that I've used for years. These are all the types of settings that should be controlled in a testing environment. I've seen a few people online talking about Windows 10 privacy settings and other odd choices by Microsoft such as automatically downloading games.

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