Creators Update automatically installing Games w/o permission

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Yesterday I built a little PC for someone and installed using the latest and greatest media from MS. After I got it up and running, it kept installing candy crush and some war game and other shit.

Every time I uninstalled it, it reinstalled and was just sucking up bandwidth.

I ended up using the local security policy and packaged app rules to stop it, but how bloody disappointing and annoying.

Further bitch, I had to reg edit the right click on the windows logo to bring back command prompt and control panel etc...

the installing games thing without permission over and over... ugh wtf.
 
Yesterday I built a little PC for someone and installed using the latest and greatest media from MS. After I got it up and running, it kept installing candy crush and some war game and other shit.

Every time I uninstalled it, it reinstalled and was just sucking up bandwidth.

I ended up using the local security policy and packaged app rules to stop it, but how bloody disappointing and annoying.

Further bitch, I had to reg edit the right click on the windows logo to bring back command prompt and control panel etc...

the installing games thing without permission over and over... ugh wtf.

If you are installing the Creator's Update from a USB or DVD the media is not doing an "update" it's doing a clean install and that's why you're seeing the result you describe. See the link heatlesssun posted in another Creator's Update thread:

Thanks, was just trying to figure our what is going on here because I've heard your story about defaults getting reset and I've heard others say that didn't happen. Apparently there's a difference in how this works depending on how the CU is installed: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/creators-update-privacy-settings-upgrade,34093.html

Settings have a better chance of being retained if the "Update" is installed once it is offered through "Windows Update".

Hope this helps.
 
I had the displeasure of having to fix my sons Win10 audio settings once again after some bullshit update messed him up.

I haven't even booted my gaming computer for months - and I kinda like it that way.
 
I had the displeasure of having to fix my sons Win10 audio settings once again after some bullshit update messed him up.

I haven't even booted my gaming computer for months - and I kinda like it that way.

The microphone on my daughters W10 PC is still fucked, I have to unplug it and plug it in again every time she wants it to work when she's recording her games. So annoying.
 
What is it? A joke? Are you saying the latest and "greatest" media from Microsoft are now installing games on it's own and later don't let you get rid of them?!! You better hope it is not regular customer level windows 10 installation because if it is... I was always wondering why people do hate the MS latest OS so much sometimes... it gets weirder and weirder every day with this so called 'modern' OS... No particular hate from my side, I use it myself, just some healty observation.... where are we going, Microsoft, huh?
 
Man, if only there was a setting to turn off app installations. It would be a perfect setting to stick in settings -> personalization -> start. I would call it something like "Occasionally show suggestions in start" and would have a little toggle switch next to it that would turn off app installations and ads in the start menu. Maybe someday. Until then we will just have to screw around in registry and make threads on forums about it.

Doesn't work on new installs, tried it. On a new install you have to actively use secpol to prevent this from happening... and by experimentation I learned it also happens with older builds now when they are installed from scratch.

Just this morning I was playing with a refurbed T430 that came with 10 Pro ( not creators) and the even though I had set the wireless to metered and turned off suggestions it immediately started loading the three games and twitter as well as reinstalling the facebook app I had just uninstalled. I'm not blind. And a suggestion is supposed to be just that- a suggestion, not "I'll ignore your wishes and load all the crapware I like".

When I join these units to a domain, the shit stops because at least MS is listening to the GP. For single users this is bullshit. At the office my MS blacklist is now over two pages long so I don't see that behaviour there, but here in my garage I don't have anything blocked and when I'm seeing this kind of behaviour while I'm trying to get Optimus working it drives me nuts.

I bet Stardock launches a new product that locks this shit down so MS doesn't keep trying to break Start10 and Blinds etc..
 
Yesterday I built a little PC for someone and installed using the latest and greatest media from MS. After I got it up and running, it kept installing candy crush and some war game and other shit.

Every time I uninstalled it, it reinstalled and was just sucking up bandwidth.

I ended up using the local security policy and packaged app rules to stop it, but how bloody disappointing and annoying.

Further bitch, I had to reg edit the right click on the windows logo to bring back command prompt and control panel etc...

the installing games thing without permission over and over... ugh wtf.
OK, so Windows 10 is triggered to install certain apps/games before you even hit the net. So if you think you are going to outsmart it (like I once did) by removing them from Start before you connect it to the Internet, Microsoft is one step ahead of you.

The only thing you can do is to install the OS, open the Store app and go into Updates, download everything that it wants download/updated, do it a second time to make sure it's all there, then go in and remove the apps you don't want.
 
I had to reg edit the right click on the windows logo to bring back command prompt and control panel etc...
you can easily change it to show command prompt instead of power shell and control panel you can just search for and pin to the start menu. pretty easy....

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The microphone on my daughters W10 PC is still fucked, I have to unplug it and plug it in again every time she wants it to work when she's recording her games. So annoying.
update the drivers to the manufacturers driver, ie realteks driver pack. that should fix it. the cu seems to replace any installed driver with the ms one.
 
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Doesn't work on new installs, tried it. On a new install you have to actively use secpol to prevent this from happening... and by experimentation I learned it also happens with older builds now when they are installed from scratch.

Not sure what to tell you. I have 3 machines running Windows 10 and the setting fixed it for every one of them. I had to manually remove the suggested apps that were already there but I haven't had a single one installed for months (including when I updated them to creators update).
 
you can easily change it to show command prompt instead of power shell and control panel you can just search for and pin to the start menu. pretty easy....

I saw that eventually, but I also wanted my control panel back. In fact, I wanted it back exactly like it was. But good tip for those who are looking for just that.
 
I saw that eventually, but I also wanted my control panel back. In fact, I wanted it back exactly like it was. But good tip for those who are looking for just that.

Take a look at this: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.30. It allows you to easily customize the power menu, which has been there since Windows 8. Again, it's one those things that's simple and easy to do with tools but Microsoft never added a UI for it.
 
update the drivers to the manufacturers driver, ie realteks driver pack. that should fix it. the cu seems to replace any installed driver with the ms one.

Pendragon1, thank you for the advice my friend. Unfortunately I'm currently running Realtek drivers, I have been from the start and the Mic still plays funny buggers. It's like it switches automatically, for no logical reason, to an output device as opposed to an input device.

Once again, thanks for offering assistance.
 
Take a look at this: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.30. It allows you to easily customize the power menu, which has been there since Windows 8. Again, it's one those things that's simple and easy to do with tools but Microsoft never added a UI for it.

And one of those personalisation modifications that requires yet another third party application to make changes, changes that will most likely be reset next major update.
 
And one of those personalisation modifications that requires yet another third party application to make changes, changes that will most likely be reset next major update.

These are registry settings that may not survive a version upgrade that's a fair point. But who does use tools to extend what's in the box? Windows utilities like this have been around forever. Even if settings like this don't survive a version upgrade, tools like this make setting things up quick and painless.
 
These are registry settings that may not survive a version upgrade that's a fair point. But who does use tools to extend what's in the box? Windows utilities like this have been around forever. Even if settings like this don't survive a version upgrade, tools like this make setting things up quick and painless.

Under Windows 7 I never had to use a third party utility to re-implement an option that should never have been removed.

Quick and painless is not having to use such tools at all.
 
Under Windows 7 I never had to use a third party utility to re-implement an option that should never have been removed.

Quick and painless is not having to use such tools at all.

They used to deliver milk to the back door too. But that's not what we're dealing with. Unfortunately.
 
Under Windows 7 I never had to use a third party utility to re-implement an option that should never have been removed.

Because there was basically one version of Windows 7 with updates. There have been four different versions of Windows 10. There's no question that the Windows 10 major version process doesn't honor changes like it should. But 10 is the first version of Windows to update this way. Microsoft needs to improve it. I've never said anything differently.

But yeah, 3rd party tools to make things easier, any advanced Windows user over the years has used such tools. Virtual desktops, multiple monitor task bars, blue light reduction. But no one is using those kinds of tools now.
 
What is it? A joke? Are you saying the latest and "greatest" media from Microsoft are now installing games on it's own and later don't let you get rid of them?!! You better hope it is not regular customer level windows 10 installation because if it is... I was always wondering why people do hate the MS latest OS so much sometimes... it gets weirder and weirder every day with this so called 'modern' OS... No particular hate from my side, I use it myself, just some healty observation.... where are we going, Microsoft, huh?


And they even do this on Windows 10 ENTERPRISE!
 
Actually I'm finding the Enterprise systems are honoring GP with no real issues, the surprise is when you have to keep adding some new restriction.

They do if you have GPO's sure, but a clean out of the box Windows 10 Ent install has the customer experience enabled and thus downloads all the BS. it is like them putting a wallpaper on Server 2016 on install.. sure we may never look at it, but if i need to RDP into a box i see that ugly screen which then take more bandwidth and with remote sites annoying. Now i need to set a gpo to set a solid color image..
 
They do if you have GPO's sure, but a clean out of the box Windows 10 Ent install has the customer experience enabled and thus downloads all the BS.

Do you think that Windows 7 enterprise is any different? You don't run Windows Update in true enterprise environments for example. You connect these clients to domains, build out custom images, set GPs, login scripts, etc. You don't just install an enterprise version ISO and be on your way in an enterprise environment. Not even with Windows 7.
 
Standalone, yes. But Windows 10 Enterprise clients are meant to be connected to a domain and in that environment clients are locked down tighter than a sphincter.

The fact the OS can be connected to a domain means very little, Windows 10 Professional can be connected to a domain and by default all the annoying settings are still enabled under Windows 10 EE.

EE gained some additional features after the AU over Pro, but I wouldn't consider any of them groundbreaking. All the bullshit is still enabled by default under EE.
 
Because there was basically one version of Windows 7 with updates. There have been four different versions of Windows 10. There's no question that the Windows 10 major version process doesn't honor changes like it should. But 10 is the first version of Windows to update this way. Microsoft needs to improve it. I've never said anything differently.

Under Linux these updates would be called regressions.
 
EE gained some additional features after the AU over Pro, but I wouldn't consider any of them groundbreaking. All the bullshit is still enabled by default under EE.

Because once again, in an enterprise environment you have to take control of the defaults. That's how it's always worked in true enterprise environments. True enterprise environments don't use Windows Update or Defender or time services or anything else in Windows 7 that connects to Microsoft servers. That's why Microsoft documents how to shut down every single thing for enterprises that connects to Microsoft servers.
 
Because once again, in an enterprise environment you have to take control of the defaults. That's how it's always worked in true enterprise environments. True enterprise environments don't use Windows Update or Defender or time services or anything else in Windows 7 that connects to Microsoft servers. That's why Microsoft documents how to shut down every single thing for enterprises that connects to Microsoft servers.

You disable everything via GPO on the DC. EE is nothing special, all the usual advertising/spyware and lack of control is still enabled by default. Things that have no place in a desktop operating system.
 
Updates that cancel users own settings and modifications are a clear path of Windows becoming just a console. It's an Xbox with a keyboard in the making.
 
Yesterday I built a little PC for someone and installed using the latest and greatest media from MS. After I got it up and running, it kept installing candy crush and some war game and other shit.

Every time I uninstalled it, it reinstalled and was just sucking up bandwidth.

I ended up using the local security policy and packaged app rules to stop it, but how bloody disappointing and annoying.

Further bitch, I had to reg edit the right click on the windows logo to bring back command prompt and control panel etc...

the installing games thing without permission over and over... ugh wtf.

Interesting, I do not have those nor do they ever try installing on any of my systems. What version of Windows 10 is it?
 
Are you really this self unaware? Really? LOL!

Self unaware?

If someone is posting something that's incorrect there's nothing to state I can't correct them.

You are the one that mentioned linux.

I'm the one that posted a fact as opposed to misinformed rantings about EE. EE is not some magic version of Windows free from all the poor decisions that come with Windows 10.
 
does this thread have Linux in the title? is it under the Linux sub-forum? no! so stfu about Linux in all the WINDOWS threads. you just cant help yourself can you?
 
does this thread have Linux in the title? is it under the Linux sub-forum? no! so stfu about Linux in all the WINDOWS threads. you just cant help yourself can you?

Do you want me to highlight the number of times Heatlesssun had derailed a thread in the Linux forums by turning it into a Windows vs Linux flame war discussing topics that have been discussed and put to bed time and time again?

What Heatlesssun posted was not entirely accurate. I corrected him and provided an example of how the updating process under Windows is flawed. If you don't want to read my posts there's a perfectly functioning blocking system.
 
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Self unaware?

If someone is posting something that's incorrect there's nothing to state I can't correct them.



I'm the one that posted a fact as opposed to misinformed rantings about EE. EE is not some magic version of Windows free from all the poor decisions that come with Windows 10.


You are just as delusional as boonie. You brought up linux just to bring it up and that is what I said. You want to push linux, that is fine take that crap to the little linux and other oses forum.
Here is a link since I'm sure you won't be able to find your way there https://hardforum.com/forums/linux-bsd-free-systems.96/
 
You are just as delusional as boonies. You brought up linux just to bring it up and that is what I said. You want to push linux that is fine take that crap to the little linux and other oses forum.

No, no I didn't. If a Kernel update is made available under Linux and it results in issues, it's called a regression and flagged as such.

The CU is, as always, resulting in issues.

Once again, there's a perfectly functional blocking system if you don't want to read my posts.
 
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