I have about a dozen Entity Framework models to write and a webpage to get running (at least for a quick demo) by three but I guess now is a good time for Windows Updates.

I hate Windows. And it’s a company laptop so I can’t change the policies.

So I’m sitting here twiddling my thumbs unable to work.

I sympathize, but it sounds like your ire should be directed more at your company's policies rather that windows itself. Microsoft provides all the settings needed to make the updates happen at reasonable times (although there is no good time for everybody). It's up to your IT folks to make it as painless as possible for you.

Where them Linux guys now?

I'd argue, but it's pointless...

@monkeyboy there's only one good time to update and that's when *I* decide It's time to update... If windows understood this they would give me the option to turn off updates without bitching about it constantly.

@Hazarth If it were your personal computer, you could do just that. Microsoft also understands, however, that companies need to control updates based on their own set on priorities which override those of any single employee. So, no, Microsoft should not allow an individual to always be able to override company update settings.

Oh, but you CAN choose whether or when to install updates, didn't you know?

Also - unless you are on HDD or still on some ancient build updates take few minutes.
I got a 4 yo 120 GB Samsung SSD and... Well you get the point.

There are things we don't know about the organization, the PC, the Windows build in question, but I'd blame the organization.

No, sir, I am not convinced. Long gone are the days when I would leave the computer to update overnight and find the motherfucking spinner still spinning in the morning.
Back when I was on XP SP3 I would just disable the motherfuck3r.
And now I'd just grab an update as soon as it drops.

And yes, I tried ArchLinux. 😁

@dindin oh, but I am on an HDD. Cause that's a valid purchase, win10 is still sold on HDD based laptops and so I expect it to work properly on those. However you can't disable updates at all, you can postpone them, you can even disable the update service but it will kick in a few days later on its own. I have this experience and its retarded. Especially since the thing downloads without me knowing, brings my drive to 100% overhead for 20 minutes everytime I boot it making the system almost unresponsive, and happily eats my data in case I want to share my phone data over wifi AP. I shouldn't be required to think pre-emptively how my OS is going to fuck me over everytime I do something.. I'm the user, I want the control...

@monkeyboy no, yeah, I get OPs situation and that a company needs to do this, but you can't even turn them off on a personal computer as I said above

This is exactly why Im not going back to windows ever again, they own "my" device...

@Hazarth

Oh well, this was indeed pointless. :)
monkeyboy seems to know what's the deal.

@dindin that's a third party tool. I shouldn't need a third party tool to have control over when my computer downloads gigabytes of data :D

You know best. :)