- May 19, 2011
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One of my customers is on a very slow Internet connection (1.5Mbps) and has two computers, a desktop and a laptop. On a previous occasion when Win11 on the laptop wanted to update, I took it home and connected it to my network to do the update. This time around, as their desktop is a new one running Win11 and both computers were trying to get Win11 24H2, I decided to do an in-place upgrade on both on-site.
However, the customer had a few other issues for me to look at first, so initially my plan was to use the Settings app to pause updates while we do stuff on the Internet. One of the computers had this option greyed out even after a restart, so I decided to go into services.msc and put my foot down.
Stopping the WU service was as expected, but I'm well aware that Win10/11 likes to more or less immediately restart the service so I set WU to manual, but then 'Delivery Optimization' responded "Access denied" when I tried to change its startup type. Fine, I'll go into the registry and set it manually that way. Oddly, the "access denied" is nothing to do with registry permissions but apparently some dumbassery that has been baked into services.msc? I decided that since Windows was playing hardball with me, I would reciprocate and set dosvc to disabled.
I refreshed services.msc, sure enough dosvc is disabled, but then Windows just restarted the service anyway.
MS: "Rules for thee, not for me"
However, the customer had a few other issues for me to look at first, so initially my plan was to use the Settings app to pause updates while we do stuff on the Internet. One of the computers had this option greyed out even after a restart, so I decided to go into services.msc and put my foot down.
Stopping the WU service was as expected, but I'm well aware that Win10/11 likes to more or less immediately restart the service so I set WU to manual, but then 'Delivery Optimization' responded "Access denied" when I tried to change its startup type. Fine, I'll go into the registry and set it manually that way. Oddly, the "access denied" is nothing to do with registry permissions but apparently some dumbassery that has been baked into services.msc? I decided that since Windows was playing hardball with me, I would reciprocate and set dosvc to disabled.
I refreshed services.msc, sure enough dosvc is disabled, but then Windows just restarted the service anyway.
MS: "Rules for thee, not for me"
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