Security breaches among other things have happened before through auto-updates, it doesn't matter really whose fault this is, they never learn and don't give the option for users to switch it off to protect their systems. I've mentioned this in another thread but there was a security breach via Unity Engine's auto-update in their launcher and that's what made me switch from them because it was a major red flag for incompetency.
Auto-update just means that you're opening yourself up to a cyber attack from a third party who can bork peoples' systems overnight while the majority are asleep.
I don't know if they re-enabled that recently or not, but as far as I know you can only disable windows updates through regedit and typical bs work arounds.
It looks like you're right that they don't make it available with the GUI, but you don't need regedit. Just disable services.msc ... they say. I have had Windows re-enable services before.
Security breaches among other things have happened before through auto-updates, it doesn't matter really whose fault this is, they never learn and don't give the option for users to switch it off to protect their systems. I've mentioned this in another thread but there was a security breach via Unity Engine's auto-update in their launcher and that's what made me switch from them because it was a major red flag for incompetency.
Auto-update just means that you're opening yourself up to a cyber attack from a third party who can bork peoples' systems overnight while the majority are asleep.
I think you can switch off Microsoft updates? IDK about this Crowd strike thing.
I don't know if they re-enabled that recently or not, but as far as I know you can only disable windows updates through regedit and typical bs work arounds.
It looks like you're right that they don't make it available with the GUI, but you don't need regedit. Just disable services.msc ... they say. I have had Windows re-enable services before.
sometimes they're even accidental...