Classic Shell: Forum

Is there anyway an option to display the old style Windows Update could be added as the new style is horrible and lacks functionality.

Microsoft have already released a tool that lets you manually check for updates & lets you hide specific updates, but this is still not great.

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No you are better off staying on earlier versions of Windows for full control over Windows Update.

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I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

I've already upgraded to W10 as it's so much better than W8.1 on everything else apart from Windows Update!

What is better compared to Windows 8.1 in Windows 10?

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I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

You should be able to just grab patches directly from Microsoft and manually install them rather than going through Windows Update. I had to do that myself for one of the patches that wasn't properly downloading.

In theory, this means that it should be possible to cripple Windows Update and then install a third-party client to manage Windows patches instead. I dunno if there's anything reputable out there, I haven't looked that hard.