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Yeah, basically that. I'm back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It's not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I've encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?

ETA: I've learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they're useful if you have troublesome hardware.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why didn't you just disable updates?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This guy thinks you can do what you want with Windows.

Disabling updates is such a ridiculous thing because sometimes it works, and sometimes Windows just ignores you.

I've literally had two exact model laptops running as local render servers, fully updated, then disabled updates/reboots on both, around a month later one updated and rebooted dumping my workload and corrupting my database. Disabling anything on Windows doesn't always work, it does what it wants.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haven't found an option that does this with any degree of permanence. Always re-enables updates after a short time without prompting. Then reminds me every 3 days to set up a MS account.

Not very concerned -- it's not worth my time to fix. I don't have free time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can disable the updates service and/or edit the registry