Kill-Update — удобный инструмент для блокировки обновлений Windows

Установка новейших обновлений Windows иногда может привести к неблагоприятным последствиям. Поэтому многие пользователи предпочитают откладывать обновления на некоторое время, чтобы убедиться, что они не вызывают ошибки, не повреждают данные и не нарушают работоспособность системы.

Microsoft не предусмотрела встроенную опцию для предотвращения установки обновлений на постоянной основе, но для этой задачи можно воспользоваться сторонними инструментами, такими как Kill-Update, Windows Update Blocker или StopUpdates10.

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Kill-Update — удобный инструмент для блокировки обновлений Windows, который требует от пользователя минимального взаимодействия. Размер исполняемого файла составляет менее 350 килобайт, и программа является портативной. Вам нужно запустить приложение с правами администратора, чтобы Kill-Update мог вносить изменения в системные службы. Kill-Update работает в фоновом режиме, а на панели задач отображается значок замка. Кликните правой кнопкой мыши по значку и выберите опцию «Locked». Вот и все! Достаточно всего пары кликов, чтобы заблокировать обновления Windows.

Теперь рассмотрим, как все работает. Приложение постоянно контролирует операционную систему в фоновом режиме и проверяет, какие службы Центра обновления Windows запущены. Если такие службы будут обнаружены, то Kill-Update отключит их. Проверить работу утилиты довольно просто: откройте приложение Параметры > Обновление и безопасность > Центр обновления Windows. Система выведет сообщение об ошибке «Что-то пошло не так. Попытайтесь открыть параметры позже». Это значит, что Kill-Update справляется со своей задачей.

Что делать, если вы захотели обновить Windows? Нет проблем, просто отключите опцию «Locked» в меню иконки системного трея, и вы можете устанавливать обновления.

Блокирует ли Kill-Update обновления антивирусной программы Microsoft Defender? Нет, по умолчанию, не блокирует. В меню иконки системного трея есть пункт «Windows Defender allowed», который выбран изначально. Данный параметр не нуждается в пояснении. Если по какой-то причине данная опция отключена, активируйте ее вручную, если полагаетесь на встроенный системный антивирус.

Вы можете попробовать обновить антивирус вручную, когда параметр отключен, но только при условии, что опция «Locked» отключена. Так как режим «allowed» предусматривает автоматическую установку обновлений по мере их выхода, то лучше использовать данный вариант. Просто запустите программу и забудьте о ней. Вы можете включить опцию «Load at startup» для автоматического запуска программы при старте системы.

На официальной странице проекта на GitHub объясняется, как работает функция обновления Microsoft Defender. Программа позволяет антивирусу автоматически получать новые обновления сигнатур, временно разрешая обновления и отключая их. Кажется, что это делается случайным образом один раз в день.

Если вы хотите отслеживать действия программы, то можете включить функцию ведения журнала. Для этого поместите исполняемый файл в отдельную папку. Создайте текстовый документ и назовите его Settings.txt. Откройте Проводник, перейдите к папке, скопируйте полный путь и вставьте его в документ.

Сохраните файл и закройте его. Снова запустите Kill-Update, и программа начнет наполнять журнал данными. Так как инструмент обновляется каждые десять секунд, то файл журнала будет стремительно увеличиваться. Не рекомендуется включать журнал без крайней необходимости.

Что касается безопасности, то Kill-Update является инструментом с открытым исходным кодом. VirusTotal не обнаруживает угроз при сканировании исполняемого файла. Однако, фильтр Smartscreen может выводить предупреждения из-за низкой распространенности файла.

Из замеченных недостатков иконка замка при использовании светлой темы оформления оказался недостаточно контрастной.

Kill-Update подойдет пользователям, которые хотят самостоятельно контролировать установку обновлений на своих устройствах и которых не устраивает встроенная функция для приостановки обновлений на месяц.

Windows 10 Update killed my computer

Today I installed the Windows 10 Update, without checking the online data. It looked like a normal update, but then my computer went to sleep. Now when I try to start it, I get the normal BIOS messages, then a Windows icon for 6-7 seconds. Then the system goes to sleep, with the power button still on. I can’t access Windows directly. What is the fix?

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The update that was installed seems to be causing conflicts with the system. Since you are not able to sign in to the computer normally, you can access the recovery environment to perform the necessary troubleshooting. Before we proceed, we’d like to collect more information to properly guide you in resolving the problem. We’d appreciate it if you answer these questions:

• What update was installed on your computer?
• Is there a power plan that’s currently enabled on the PC?
• Are you able to wake the computer up from sleep when it enters the said state?

You can access the recovery options in Windows 10 to either check the power plans enabled, or uninstall the update that started the problem. Your computer shall give you the options by holding down the Shift key on your keyboard as you restart the system. The recovery options are explained further on this page.

We suggest starting the PC in safe mode and checking what update was installed for us to find out why the computer sleeps when you switch it on. Here’s a reference about checking what updates are installed on the computer.

If the update has somehow changed the power configurations on the system, you can perform these steps once in safe mode to reset the power plans:

1. Right-click on Start.
2. Choose Command Prompt (Admin).
3. Type powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies then press Enter.

Afterwards, restart the computer and check if it would no longer enter sleep mode.

Give us an update so we can assist you further if the concern calls for more troubleshooting.

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Thanks for the reply. To answer the questions:

— I’m not sure what update was installed, because I can’t access Windows. Windows was prompting me to install a new update, and I shouldn’t have agreed.

— No Power Plan, it’s running at full power all the time.

— It’s not really going into sleep state, but the screens to blank, with the fans and drives running. This happened during the update, and now.

When I start the computer, it runs through BIOS, and starts to load Windows. The blue Windows icon is visible for 7 seconds, with the little progress dots underneath, for about 7 seconds before the screens go blank and the fans shut down.

Before that, after BIOS tries to load DHCP, i get a message: «PXE-E53: No boot filename received» That would seem to indicate a problem with the primary hard drive. I’m working on that now, but the problem occured just as Windows was installing an update. You might want to check that.

I’m tired of being a Beta tester for free. No more updates here.

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As previously suggested, start the PC in safe mode to check what could be causing the problem. To get to safe mode, you need to access the recovery options in Windows 10.

If your PC takes you to the sign-in screen before it becomes unresponsive, you can restart it by clicking the power icon while pressing the Shift key on the keyboard. If that method doesn’t work, you can hard reset your computer. A hard reset is performed by unplugging the power cord as you boot your PC up. This may need to be executed a few times before the computer takes you to the recovery environment where recovery options are available. Once you are taken to the recovery options, follow these steps:

1. Choose Troubleshoot.
2. Select Advanced options.
3. Go to Start-up Settings.
4. Press F4 to select the Enable Safe Mode option.
5. Sign in to your account.

From there, you can check the updates that were installed in Windows Update.

Let us know if you’re successful in performing the suggestions above.

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Tried TWENTY straight times. The PC powers up .. and dies.

I need this PC for business. This is a disaster.

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One of the possible reasons why your computer is shutting down unexpectedly is because of a faulty hardware or outdated drivers. To look more closely into this, kindly answer these questions:

• Have you made any recent hardware or software changes to your computer?
• Can you try to put the power supply of your computer to a different outlet and see if the same issue exists?
• Did you get an error code?
• What’s your operating system?

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Today I installed the Windows 10 Update, without checking the online data. It looked like a normal update, but then my computer went to sleep. Now when I try to start it, I get the normal BIOS messages, then a Windows icon for 6-7 seconds. Then the system goes to sleep, with the power button still on. I can’t access Windows directly. What is the fix?

I have the exact same problem. After reinstalling my pc for the 40th time with win 10 pro 64, i figured the problem happens after KB4034674. I have a asus Z170-A mobo and an intel i7-7700 cpu. After the KB4034674 is forcibly shoved down my throat, the PC no longer will restart using the start/power/restart. It shows the idiot quadrilateral and the circle of death dots for about 1 second than it dies to Blue screen of death(BSOD). Irql not less or equal; collecting error info, auto reboot, BSOD, Driver irql not less or equal, collecting error info, auto reboot, BSOD kmode exception not handled, crashes to a freeze while collecting 0% of error info, Preparing auto repair, auto reboot, crashes to Black screen of death(BLSOD), must power off PC with 5 second power button depress, start up, Please wait, BSOD, irql not less or equal, auto reboot, BSOD.freezes on quadrilateral, must power off restart with 5 second push on power button, BLSOD, auto reboot, preparing auto repair, BSOD driver irql not less or equal, NORMAL BOOT! this happens 100% of the times you select start/power/restart. If you turn off fast startup in control panel/power options/choose what the power buttons do/ change settings that are currently unavailable untick fast startup this makes shutdown and manual start do the same cycle of BSODs and BLSODs as restart. If fast start is selected (ticked) than shutdown and manual restart works. Another problem is that once the thing gets too screwed up, only safe mode works and in safe mode you cant retick the fast startup. Why cant microsoft provide a key sequence to start the god forsaken win 10 into safe mode directly and/or have a safe startup option that only starts the drivers that apparently work in safe mode but be in a real mode that you can access ms installer, all options in windows, device manager status, and other functionality that does not exist in safe mode. For example: a windows 10 pro 64 version 1703 does not support the intel hd 630 driver for the i7-7700 cpu. When you install the win 10 it instantly crashes in the video driver. You can easily go to safe mode after 3 to 50 crashes when the idiot crash counter decides to allow you to restart in safe mode. Than once in safe mode, you cant install intel graphics hd 630 because it is NOT ALLOWED in safe mode. The only way to get past this bug is to install the win 10 an ANOTHER PC with exact same hardware, except a i6 level cpu. then when you have it at the first login screen after it is completely installed, you do not activate, you first take ownership of intelppm.sys from windows/system32/drivers than you rename the file to intell_ppm.sht, than you go to intel to download the driver for intel hd 630 graphics for windows 10, extract all, go to drivers sub directory and right click on igdlh64.inf and select install. It will put it in the inf directory for later use and may complain about the driver compatibility with the device (remember your in a hd 510 cpu machine installing a hd 630 driver) but you must just choose okay. Than in device manager display adapter uninstall the device (intel hd 510 or microsoft basic display driver) and the driver, than select the network adapters uninstall the devices, and than all cpu cores from the last(bottom of device manager up) and than when the pc shuts down to restart, as soon as the lights on the pc recycle down, turn power off, (turn off or unplug the power supply), take out hd or ssd and put into i7 machine. It will start up and say setting up devices, using the hd630 inf you installed on the other machine. In the i7 machine device manager, all cores of the i7 come up with yellow exclamation points (due to renaming the problematic intellppm.sys) but that is the best you can do since intel or microsoft does not have an updated intelppm.sys that works on an asus mobo with an I7 cpu. If you leave the intelppm.sys alone the new i7 machine will not start, instead it will complain of intellppm.sys causing BSOD (irql or driver irql or Kmode exception). Note everything works perfect on the same setup with an i6 cpu. Now that the hd is in the i7 machine it will finish installing. As soon as it starts, connect to the network and immediately go to settings/network/wifi/manage known networks select your network/properties and set as metered connection to on (its the third option down). this will prevent any of the KILLER updates at least until microsoft and intel and asus get the lead out and get this problem fixed. I tried uninstalling the KB4034674 but my SSD is still hosed and the restart and non fast start shutdown are screwed. Note the PC works fine if I turn on fast startup and only use shutdown and manual start or hibernate or sleep. Only restart (with fast startup ticked) is a problem. Again, if I untick fast startup, both restart and shutdown with manual startup are problematic with the 10 to 50 crashes of BSOD, BLSOD, and multiple repair, diagnose, please wait, TSS, safe mode, startup repair and every other stupid message in the world. And what does microsoft do with the eventual correct startup settings that work after multiple crashes you ask? Must throw them away with each restart. Also, per other forums on ROG and ASUS, I tried a regular HD in place of the SSD, same problem. I tried turning on and off the fast startup in both bios and operating system, same problem. I tried plugging the SSD ans HD on two differnt SATA ports, one intel and one ASmedia. Same problem. I tried the Power Supply from the other machine, the memory chips, the DVD drive, the HD the SATA cables, basically the oly thing different is one machine has an i7 and one has an i6. ASUS says the Z170-A supports i7 but really between them and microsoft and intel, it doesnt. Note that I successfully got the i7 to work with windows 7 but only if i select all monthly quality security KBs to be hidden, since microsoft is blocking i7 machine updates to security with these monthly quality security KBs. Same thing with windows 8.1, works best on the i7, especially without the BS of Cortana, Superfetch, and Windows Defender, microsoft is also blocking security updates if you run win 8 or 8.1 on an i7 machine <[ BEWARE]>. Good luck and hope this helps a little.

UPDATE: uninstalling KB4034674 fixed my PC. After two multiple crash restarts the uninstall of the KB4034764 actually completed and the PC was fixed by the next restart.

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