Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have a look at “wake timers”, they might be at fault and need disabling

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  • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks. It was set to Allow Important Only when plugged in, I’ve disabled it.

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    • NoWeJustSellShoes@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can enable hibernate in power settings too. I had to do that when “sleep” would literally just shut off my monitor and nothing else. Didn’t even log out.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Typical Microsoft. “Let the user decide when their computer wakes up? Nah, they let us decide what’s important or it stays asleep.”

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    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.

      Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of “don’t put shit on my PC without asking,” but here we are.

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Is gpedit even included in retail/OEM windows licenses these days? The vast majority of users wouldn’t know how to do that anyway, hell it’s a swamp even for power users.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know, when an OS out of the box needs hours of disabling invasive bullshit on first boot, maybe the OS is kind of a problem.

    I know switching isn’t an alternative for all, hell, even disabling bullshit isn’t possible for everyone but for those who can here’s a script to manage the most blatant fuckery: 

    https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat.git

    From the description: “A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.”

    HOW TO:

    Go to link.

    Click green download button > download .ZIP

    Right click the downloaded file: choose extract all.

    Open folder, double click Win11Debloat.ps1

    Follow instructions.

    Lord over family and friends about being a l33t h4ck3r.

    It’s well used and vetted. If you need help with instructions let me know in comments.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They can do that, but the next update they actually decide to apply… will rewrite all/most of those changes.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is the most infuriating bullshit of all. MotherFUCKER doesn’t respect my authoritah!!

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        MicroSlop:

        It’s not your computer, it’s our computer.

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• Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t own proprietary software. When you allow it access to your computing resources, you can just hope it does what you want it to do, the way you want it to.

  Sounds like a bonkers extremist position, and in a way it is, but it’s also true.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    itt: any game ever

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I still own an original copy of Kung Fu Master for Commodore 64 on cassette. Yes you may prostrate before me.

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      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Very cool

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Supposed to according to whom? According to Microsoft, it’s supposed to have them.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not win10

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I just want to know why my Windows 10 laptop is waking up by itself in the middle of the night to apply updates it isn’t supposed to have?

  To answer the question as written: yes.

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