Delay the Windows 10 Spring 2019 Update? - Comments Page 1

You can delay updates in windows 10 home by setting your internet to a metered connection. It won’t download until you tell it to or you change the connection setting.

My winver is 1803. Anyone got an opinion as to whether I should install 1809? Win 10 has been asking me to update for the past week or so but I have no idea what version. 1809, I'm assuming.

Another newsletter I subscribe to and have for 20 years recommends delaying (if you have Pro) normal updates at least three weeks, which I do, and major updates up to six months, I do 90 days. Just because so many things go wrong with them, even the routine ones cause problems sometimes. So I just wait out the bugs and fixes until things are stable. Hopefully.

I also have winver 1803.

My winver is version 1803. What should I do with that.

Help please. I also have version 1803 and don't know what to do.

Of all the new features you mentioned the sandbox is about the only worthwhile one. Thanks for this article Bob.

I also have 1803 and Windows Update says that I am "up to date"

Typo in the second to last paragraph? "Create a new System Restore Point at least once a week until you get Version 1803." I think Bob means ver.1903.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Correct, fixed now.

I also have version 1803; should IIIIIIII?

I wish MS would ask before installing. Twice in the last 3 weeks I have had my system reboot and install Windows updates. It would be so simple to identify as "Ready to update, proceed now or later?" I will admit that Windows does a good job of not causing a loss of data during these episodes, not perfect, but good.

I'm surprised at how many are still at 1803. Click "Start", type "update", and select "check for updates". Repeat this till there are no more updates.

Microsoft updated my W10 Pro 64 to 1809 on 3-11-19. Lost ALL photos, Downloads, Documents. It said a necessary file was unavailable. I closed all anti-malware and everything else I though might be the problem. Tried to remove the update and then used System Restore which did not fix the problem. For some reason even my backup was corrupted. Thanks Microsoft!!!!

Another here with pro 1803 — happy to hang back until everything is straightened out. As Bob says: backup regularly!

Walter (above) There ALWAYS seems to be a few horror stories. You didn't identify your hardware, but I have had very good luck with Dell & HP laptops. All are VERY old. Microsoft delays rolling out the newest versions for many months to this old hardware ans by that time the issues have been fixed. There have been advisements to NEVER go seeking an update, but let it come to your computer in due course.And my Win 7 desktop had an issue with bad sectors on the HDD that caused me grief.

I told my PC to check for updates and now I have 1809 with no apparent problems. As I was waiting for it to complete it occurred to me that I don't need a PC! All I do anymore with it is email, surf the internet and pay bills. I could do that with a Chromebook and all I would give up is local storage for cloud storage, AND all the aggravations of MS updates. Sure it is just a "dumb terminal" (how many of you remember dumb terminals?) and is a paperweight without the internet but so is my PC.

I also have winver 1803 and update page says I am up to date. As a matter of fact 1803 version is being continuously updated. The latest update is on 3/13/2019 under the name "2019-3 cumulative update for windows 10 version 1803 for x64 based systems (KB4489868). I have not differed the 1809.Mine is a windows 10 Home version. I have always allowed windows to update itself freely.

I'm with Will - I get very, very annoyed when I come into my office to continue the previous evenings work, and find all my applications have closed thanks to MS update automatically deciding I need a reboot. Sure I save last thing at night and use autosave, but it takes several minutes to re-open and re-load all the programs & files I was working on. Bob, if you could publish a way to stop the blighters taking over MY computer (apart from moving to Linux) I would be very grateful.

I have just updated my Win 10 Professional 64 bit and winver shows 1803 Build 17134.648 and the settings page shows it is up to date.

I update regularly so where is version 1809?

Confused!

So Bob, can you please weigh in on our questions about 1803? I also have 1803.

I just checked and am proudly running 1709.

I uninstalled 1809 because it interfered with my Epson V700 photo scanner - it simply wouldn't work anymore. These are expensive scanners, and I would rather throw my PC in the trash and finally switch over to Apple rather than give up my ability to use it (and the minimalist Windows 10 scanning interface substitute is too simple - I need the ability to scan photos and negatives and to get into the weeds re: image quality).

I've had a running comment on the Windows forum about this issue and subscribed to follow up comments - it's still a problem for most people and I regularly receive emails with their comments to my original email from a year ago. Obviously, Epson has some culpability here because of their lack of support (also noted in the Windows forum and something to keep in mind when choosing a scanner), but that's why I won't be upgrading. I'm glad to know that my computer won't automatically do it because I uninstalled 1809.