• Preventing the modal “Updates are available” notice in Win10

    Posted on October 23, 2016 at 06:14 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    Some of you are reporting a modal dialog box like this one, appearing on the Windows 10 desktop. (“Modal” means it shows up on the screen, takes over, and you can’t do much of anything unless you click “Get updates.”) You can disable the dialog box by going into Task Manager, but that’s a real pain.

    There’s a discussion on Reddit, one on Superuser, and several more scattered around the web. But nobody seems to have figured it out. I, personally, have never seen the beast.

    Does anybody out there know (1) What causes Windows to show the dialog box and (2) How to prevent the dialog box, both for Home and Pro?

    Windows Patches/Security
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