• If you’re participating in the Win10 update blocking experiment, here’s what to do next

    Posted on March 8, 2016 at 13:41 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft has just released its March 8 cumulative update for Windows 10, which brings version 1511 up to build 10586.164.

    If you’re participating in the blocking experiment (see my next post), use Wushowhide to go into the list of available updates and check the box next to “Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-basied Systems (KB 3140768)”. Click Next, and Windows will tell you it’s “fixed” the problem with that patch.

    At that point, you can just wait overnight and see if it gets installed. Or you can go into Windows Update (Start > Settings > Update & security and click Check for updates) and try to force Windows to install it.

    Any time you want to back out of the experiment, go back into Wushowhide, click to Show hidden updates, check the box next to “Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-basied Systems (KB 3140768)”. Click Next, and Win10 will be back to its old forced updating ways.

    Thanks for participating! Post any comments or observations you may have here, please – and remember you can post anonymously, no need to enter any identifying information.

    UPDATE: I’m testing on three Win10 machines, two with Pro, one with Home.

    On the Home machine, I didn’t run Wushowhide soon enough – by the time I got to it, Windows Update had already downloaded. Windows Update was set for a restart. After restarting, I confirmed that KB 3140768 had installed — running “winver” in the Cortana search box revealed that I was at 10586.164.

    On one of the Pro machines, manually running Windows Update “Check for updates” brought a long list of Office updates, but there was no Windows 10 update (not even the “non-security content” Update for Windows 10/KB3141032, or Dynamic Update for Windows 10/KB3142588). I assume those two are running late.

    On the other Pro machine, running Windows Update “Check for updates” brought no listed patches. Oddly, the top of the Windows Update pane says “Some settings are managed by your organization,” although the PC isn’t connected to a domain.

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