Good news about KB 3156421, today’s cumulative update for Windows 10 (10586.318)

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We got a full changelog (that’s been happening since February – somebody’s listening!) and John Wink is back, handing out advice. InfoWorld Woody on W
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OK, I admit with my ongoing problem with TimeWarnerCable I’m not thinking clearly, but are you saying that those of us running Windows 10 should go ahead and update in spite of DefCon 2?

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Nope. If you have cumulative updates blocked, there’s no immediate reason to install the cumulative update. Give it a few days and we can watch the carnage together.

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Well, sassenferatzenkramendumpf! I said that TWC had my head all screwed up and they did. They had me change to an ethernet connection and the “metered connection” thing didn’t save me. When I went to check the downloads were already started. So, I guess now I need to find some other protection from the auto-update troll. What do you suggest?

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Definitely use Noel’s approach:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3053701/microsoft-windows/block-windows-10-forced-updates-without-breaking-your-machine-part-2.html

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Now that we know these updates are here, and having used Noel’s program, should we go in with the wushowhide tool and hide *any and everything* from Win 10?

Noel’s tool stopped anything from appearing, and that is great! I just don’t know what is waiting for me.

I am running MS office 2007 on my Win 10, are there any issues with those updates?

Thank you Woody!

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Yep. Use wushowhide to hide everything.

There are Office and Windows updates. I say hold off on all of them until we get a better idea if they harbor any stinkers.

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Maybe I’m missing something here. I’ve disabled Windows Update via gpedit. When I run wushowhide and select Hide Updates, I get a list of 8 updates that I can hide. I’ve hidden the Cumulative Update, but none of the others. When I then run Check for updates, I get “Your device is up to date.” None of the 7 updates that I did not hide are shown. Why would that be?

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I haven’t a clue. Windows Update works in strange ways.

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The exception I would make is to install the Flash Player Update only. Whatever method is used, this is one patch which seldom causes issues, and it may prevent an exploit or two. Of course, MSRT is also safe to run now.

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How do you run Check for updates if updates are disabled via gpedit.msc? Something is missing, as the button should be greyed out.

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For those overly concerned about the telemetry issues, I have just found recently that MSRT is actually sending back information about the scan to Microsoft, once it finishes the scan. I think Microsoft Antivirus or Defender do the same. There is a manual way to configure blocking of the reporting back, which I think is done via a registry key.
Please search Google or the Telemetry White Paper for Windows Server 2016 (covering Windows 10) which I posted not long ago to find the details. Same configuration should apply to Windows 7.
MSRT is still a very useful tool and do not ignore it because of this issue. This has been going on since the tool has existed and is not a new implementation and I am not aware of any negative side-effects of the reporting back. The amount of network bandwidth is tiny, so this is a non-issue.

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As you say, I do believe MSRT has always sent back info.

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Very pleased to find that the Group Policy administrative template for WindowsStore has been fixed in this CU by installing a new file WindowsStore.adml, probably missed from the previous CU which installed the WindowsStore.admx file only.
Is this documented anywhere or is just a silently behind the scenes fix without even acknowledging the problem? However it was mentioned few times in the posts addressed to John Wink last month.

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