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Help me find this stealth update that is sneaking in my system!
So on my Win 7 machine, some update has slipped by in the last week or so that is causing the screen to act differently. It is now brighter and causing eye strain. I have had this happen with other updates.
- I have Windows Updates turned off. So no automatic updates are being installed through WU. I manually install updates and have not installed one recently. I checked msconfig and nothing snuck into my Startup.
- The only auto updates I had turned on were the Windows Defender updates. I checked the Update History, and it says there have been many of those updates installed, including in the last week or or so. But I could not see how to uninstall them. When I go to "Installed Updates" it does not show any of the Windows Defender updates. They only show up on the Update History
So question #1: How do you uninstall a Windows Defender Update? I have a third party AV solution so I don't even need Windows Defender running.- I have Weekly Macrium Backups images of the system drive, so I rolled back to an image from 3 weeks ago. When the backup completed, after logging in, I got the spinning circle for a long time, as if it was installing some pending update. I rarely reboot this computer so it could have some pending update that has been sitting there for ages and just got installed when I booted up the restore
So question #2: Can you boot Windows and have it skip any pending update installs? Would Safe mode do that? If so, once logged in, how can you identify and remove that pending update so it does not install?
Worse case scenario I have a Macrium backup from like 2 years ago which I could restore to but that would be a hassle of reinstalling things I have installed since then, although it would be a lot easier than rebuilding the whole system.
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