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Hey, man, it sounds like you've got a hijackware infection on your hands. I'd 'wipe & reload' if I were you.
Back-up any personal data (none of which should be considered 100% trustworthy at this point) then format the HDD & do a clean install of Windows. Please note that a Repair Install (AKA in-place upgrade) will NOT fix this!
HOW TO do a clean install of Win7: See 'Using the Custom installation option and formatting the hard disk' section of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7#section_7
After the clean install, you'll have the equivalent of a 'new computer' so take care of everything on the following page before otherwise connecting the machine to the internet or a network (i.e., other computers) and before using a flash drive or SDCard that isn't brand-new or hasn't been freshly formatted:
4 steps to help protect your new computer before you go online http://www.microsoft.com/security/pypc.aspx Tip: If & when you reinstall AVG Free v9.0, select the CUSTOM install option and do NOT install (i.e., uncheck) Linkscanner, Search-Shield, Active Surf-Shield, Security toolbar, or any of the email scanning components.
• Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm Personally, I'd install Microsoft Security Essentials or Avira AntiVir or even Avast5 (all free) instead of AVG but it's your computer.
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (IE, Mail, Security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ Disclaimer: MS MVPs neither represent nor work for Microsoft
There is no option to stop or turn off Windows Updates using the Control Panel or Settings app in Windows 10, as it used to be with earlier versions of Windows. But there is a workaround to disable or turn off Windows Update in Windows 10, that we’ll talk about in this post.
First, let us take a look at why people may want to turn off Windows updates.
With Windows 8.1 and earlier versions, we had Windows Update giving us options to:
Install updates automatically (Recommended)
Download Updates but choose when to install them
Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them
Never check for updates (Not Recommended)
These options provided a way to defer updates until we had enough time to download and install them or to have them downloaded automatically and then install them at a time we wish. These options are not present in Windows 10 Update & Security Settings.
Microsoft has explained that it will provide updates in two distinct methods for its two distinct types of clients.
First are the Home users who will not have the option to defer upgrades. The updates will download and install even if they are working on something, making the computer slow in some cases. The PC, however, would restart only if you are not doing anything or it would restart at the scheduled time if you have et one. Where a reboot would be required, the user might have to save his or her work and then reboot before going back to the work he or she was doing. Of course, Windows 10 will let you defer restart, but that is not enough because a download in the background might slow down your browsing in some cases.
The other ring of users are Enterprise users who will have the option to delay updates so that they can hold it to the time when they are free. Microsoft said it would push updates to such users less frequently so that they are faced with minimum downtime. These are the corporates and real-time users such as hospitals and ATMs etc.
Coming back to Home users and Professional users, there is not even the option to delay the updates. They will be downloaded as soon as they are available. Availability of Windows Updates for normal users means that the updates have already been tested by Windows Insiders. If you are a Windows Insider, running Windows 10 Home or Pro, you will be in priority to receive updates. After a few days of you testing the updates and if it doesn’t pose any problems, it will be released to the normal ring of users.
Thus, you are stuck. Windows 10 will keep on downloading updates as soon as they are available and will occupy your computer resources, when you may not want it too. Some of us will want to keep the automatic downloads to be stopped so that we can install the updates manually when free – when we are not working on something urgent. That is to say; some users would want the liberty and option to download and install updates when they want and not when Microsoft provides it.
Since there is no option to turn off Windows updates from Control Panel or PC Settings, here is a workaround.
Read: Windows 10 Update enables itself even after turning it Off.
Turn off Windows Updates in Windows 10
To stop automatic Windows Updates in Windows 10, you will have to:
Disable Windows Update & Windows Update Medic Services
Change WU settings using the Group Policy Editor
Set your network connection to ‘Metered’
Use a free tool that lets you disable automatic updates.
Now let us see each of these suggestions in detail.
1] Disable Windows Update & Windows Update Medic Services
You can disable the Windows Update Service via Windows Services Manager. In the Services window, scroll down to Windows Update and turn off the Service. To turn it off, right-click on the process, click on Properties and select Disabled. That will take care of Windows Updates not being installed on your machine.
But since Windows is a Service now onwards, you have to keep your computer updated. To be able to install the next set of features or a newer build, you will require the earlier updates to be installed. That’s why if you use the above workaround, you will have to go to the Windows Services Manager and turn it on once in a while to download and update your copy of Windows.
You need to also disable the Windows Update Medic Service or WaaSMedicSVC. The Windows Update Medic Service is a new Windows Service introduced in recent versions of Windows 10. This Service has been introduced to repair Windows Update components from damage so that the computer can continue to receive updates. We recommend you try this method first.
After you turn on the Windows Update Service, when you open Windows Update in PC Settings, you will see a message that updates were not installed because the computer was stopped. You will have to click on Retry so that all the available updates are downloaded and installed. This may take two or three “Check for Updates” tries. You will have to keep on clicking “Check for updates” until it says your computer is up to date. Then you can go back and turn off the Windows Update service until next time you feel you are free enough to spend time updating your copy of Windows 10.
2] Change WU settings using the Group Policy Editor
If your version of Windows 10 has Group Policy, you can also change some settings using the Group Policy Editor. Run gpedit and navigate to the following policy setting:
On the right side, double-click on Configure Automatic Updates and change its settings to suit your requirements.
Read: How to configure Windows Updates using Registry.
We do not recommend that you disable automatic Windows Update in Windows 10. If your computer is fine with downloads in the background and doesn’t affect your work, it is not advisable to do it. But if you face slowdown of computer due to updates downloading and installing in the background, the above tip to turn off Windows updates in Windows 10 will be of some help.
3] Set your network connection to ‘Metered’
Setting your network connection to ‘Metered’, can also stop Windows 10 from automatically downloading the Updates. You can do it as follows – Settings app > Network & Internet > WiFi > Advanced options. Move the slider to On position for Set as metered connection. See how to set Metered Connection in Windows 10.
4] Tools that help you block automatic Windows 10 Updates
StopUpdates10 lets you easily block Updates on Windows 10 with a click. It also blocks WaaSMedic.exe.
Windows Update Blocker lets you effectively block all Windows 10 Updates. It also blocks WaaSMedicSVC.
Win Update Stop is a free tool that allows you to disable Windows Updates on Windows 10/8/7 with a click of the button.
Incidentally, Microsoft has released a tool called Show or Hide Updates that allows users to hide or block specific unwanted Windows Updates in Windows 10. Using it, you can stop Windows 10 from downloading specific updates.
Related reads:
How to configure Windows Updates using Registry in Windows Server
How to stop automatic Driver updates
Stop Windows 10 from upgrading your computer automatically.
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I do not have (or want) Microsoft or GitHub accounts, so I can't post my own solution into Ranger4's linked website, so I will post it here instead: I had the exact same problem. Sometimes with the AWU (Automatic Windows Update) popup, the one that is asking to turn the AWU back on (usually occurring right or soon after the AWU turned itself off), popping up every few minutes, for hours on end. At other times, I got peace and quiet for days. It was so weird and infuriating that, at times, I felt (almost) ready for some badly needed peace and quiet 'me-time' in some solitary padded cell at some local 'loony bin with friendly staff' type of accommodations, away from anything 'computer'. In any case, I seemed to have noticed that it happens more when I play games or when I am streaming videos at full-screen in Chrome. So, since someone said that it might be the antivirus that is at fault, I tried this: --> Notification area --> AVG Antivirus Free icon (as of 2019-07 using version 19.6.3098 ) --> Menu (located top right) --> Settings --> Tools --> Do Not Disturb Mode (abbreviation: DNDM) --> I then toggled 'OFF' the 'Pause Windows Update' checkbox, which was 'ON'. AFAIK, that seems to have fixed it. Still crossing my fingers here, though! Quite the stupid antivirus default behavior, if you ask me. Your own antivirus is probably different, but trying to check your AV settings relative to finding options about bootup, or about DNDM, or about gaming, might help some of those of you who have the same problem, but without forcing you to enter Safe Mode in order to scan which active service or process might be the culprit, like suggested above.