*Use Microsoft’s wushowhide utility to hide the “Feature update to Windows 10, version 1703”* The difficult part about this method is that it’ll only work once the update shows up in your Windows Update. Since the rollout is gradual, this could be days, weeks, or even months.
- Go to *KB 3073930* <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-windows-10> and download Microsoft’s Wushowhide tool. (Click the link marked “*Download the ‘Show or hide updates’ troubleshooter package now*.”) - Double-click on *Wushowhide.diagcab* to run it. - Click the link marked *Advanced*. *Uncheck *the box marked “*Apply repairs automatically*.” Click *Next*. - Wushowhide will run for a long time. Click the link to *Hide Updates* when it appears. If you see a checkbox marked “*Feature update to Windows 10, version 1703*,” *check the box* next to the item and click *Next*. (If you don’t see “Feature update to Windows 10, version 1703,” the upgrade isn’t being sent to your box yet. Check again tomorrow.) - Click *Close*, and you’re done. When you’re ready to install the Windows 10 Creators Update, just use this same process to unhide the update from Windows Update. On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a laptop that is incompatible with creators update. After install I > can not download anything from the windows store. I can not update > malwarebytes, I can not update Windows 10. Fortunately, I image my OS > partition frequently so when Creators update now installs I can go back > ....for a while. But it always reinstalls. The first time creators > installed I went a couple of months before I even realized I wasn't getting > updates. I had to go back to an old backup, reconfigure.. a huge hassle. > > A month ago I contacted MS support. I let them remote to my PC to fix the > problem....the guy spent 30 minutes trying things before he gave up and > announced my 2 year old Thinkpad was incompatible with creators update but > there was " big patch" coming that would fix everything....yeah right. > > Ever since i have been backing up nightly. But creators will eventually > self install again... it won't let me put it off forever without precluding > other updates. It installed this morning and once again the same problem > emerged. My test is to try to install something from windows store. It > failed again with the same error message. So I re-imaged with last nights > backup. I feel like I am in catch 22... caught in a loop I can't get out > of. Anybody know a way to forever opt out of creators update? >
