When disabling a service through this app, it also renames the underlying service file so that it's not possible to run the service.

You could try to disable those tasks, but I went another route. It looks like this came out with an Oct 2018 update, and as over version 2.0.0, support for disabling the Medic service is also supported. This is a new service that Microsoft uses to turn on all the Windows Update stuff. There is also a third: Windows Update Medic Service. Some are set at an interval, some are set at startup. On your own, you can disable them and things will be ok, but Windows has a couple tasks that will turn those back on. There are two that seem to control everything: Windows Update Service and Windows Module Installer. When in doubt, you can disable the Windows 10 services that run the updates.

Ihor Drachuk - for catching that I should update the copyright year.

JohnnyTech - for contributing to code with some typo and text fixes.

sungerbob - for helping with research on GPO in Windows 10, version 2004.

Cereal-Killa - for providing a solution to Issue #28 and for making a 'Select All' button.

Someone 1 - who bought me a keg of coffee!.

Someone 2 - coffeed me through a long week at work!.

Someone 3 - provided a couple good jolts of caffeine!.

piratour20 - for the late evening coffee!.

Redfella - kept me caffeinated for a whole month!!.

Someone 4 - for the super buzzed week, or normally buzzed two weeks!.

Someone 5 - for all the caffeine goodness!.

Thank you so much for your contributions and helping fun the battle against Windows Update! If you've found this a useful app, perhaps you'd like to buy me a coffee? Top Caffeinators Random apps that either aren't needed or that are added bloatware. With 4.0, I realized another major annoyance of Windows 10 is a lot of bloatware. Version 3.1.0 has over 10k downloads and 4.0.0 over 17k! So I've felt a little obiligated to keep this updated. It probably would have died there, but it seems people are liking this application. It grew from there as Microsoft tweaked how they ran and protected the update service. This started out as a project to shut down the Windows Update mechanic.

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