W10: metered connection workaround to prevent enforced upgrades seems to have fallen
 

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Trust in Microsoft, and you are betrayed, sold and lost.

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I had a little issue last night, with a small app (Crewchief) not correctly installing and afterrwards being unavailable for deinstallation (google for "system error 1612" if you want to know the specific scenario). I needed to have FixIt by Microsoft, an automatted online servicing offer, sorting it out. It did, hooray. But: on Monday, in preparation for the feared Windows patchageddon Tuesday yesterday, I checked all my patch-delaying settings (you know the drill: setting it to 30, 35 and 365 days, only semi-annual branches, metered connection) plus all my privacy settings (switching off camera, mike, Cortana etc etc, that kind o stuff is all off on my play-rig). The system was as "sealed" as Microsoft allows. After FixIt dealt with my issue, for which it has to inject some code onto my rig and phone home to big Mama, all these settings by magic and accident were set back to default, and so all updates wpould have come in immediately, and Cortana and all other stuff was set to full on. Only my paranoia made me checking these settings quickly after the fixing of Crewchief. And reminded me immediately why I am so "paranoid" over Microsoft.

I vote for the US AirForce dropping some bombs on Microsoft headquarters. Real big bombs, I mean.

Only a matter of time it was bound to happen. Remember when we had control over Win7/8 updates which probably rose due to people not liking what they were hearing from MicroCrime so they screw everyone by ending you choosing what KB's you wanted and avoided those naughty ones. Clearly the same has happen here and MicroCrime has done it again.