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• Multiple reports that Windows Update is overriding the “metered connection” setting

  Posted on May 9, 2018 at 09:39 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m seeing reports from many different places that Microsoft’s long-standing (unspoken) policy of bypassing cumulative updates on machines with “metered connections” has been broken.

  Specifically, it looks like yesterday’s Win10 1709 cumulative update KB 4103727 — the one that brings Win10 up to build 16299.431 — is being applied on machines that have their internet connections set as “metered.”

  It’s not clear if that’s the case with both Wi-Fi and Ethernet (wired) internet connections.

  It’s also not clear if Win10 1703 is similarly afflicted.

  If true, Win10 Home customers are going to get hit hard — the metered connection approach was the only easy, reliable method I know about for avoiding updates.

  Home users may be forced to disabling wuauserv and/or running third-party cumulative update blockers.

  If you know of someone who’s experiencing a forced cumulative update, please post here and let me know which version of Win10, and whether the metered connection is Wi-Fi or Ethernet.

  Windows Patches/Security metered connections

• Is the metered connection trick to block Win10 updates working for you?

  Posted on March 11, 2016 at 11:29 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m seeing very sporadic reports, where Win10 users swear they have set their internet connection to metered, but Win10 is delivering cumulative updates (and possibly other updates) anyway.

  I’ve never seen that on any of my machines, so I’m very interested in hearing from anyone who has.

  Please post here! Tell me which update(s) ignored the “metered connection” setting. (I expect that Windows Defender and the MSRT go through.)

   

  Windows Patches/Security metered connections

• Block forced Windows 10 patches by using a metered connection

  Posted on August 12, 2015 at 08:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The trick is working – at least for now.

  InfoWorld

  By the way… if any of you participated in the experiment I mentioned a couple of posts ago, and turned on Metered Connection, did it block the patch for you, too? Hit me in the comments.

  Windows Patches/Security metered connections, Windows 10 forced patches