• Disable Windows 10 Update Assistant in Task Scheduler Microsoft has listed Windows 10 Update Assistant as a scheduled task, which is the reason why this virus upgrade runs itself repeatedly. Therefore, you should disable it in Task Scheduler.
• Open up the Finder, click Applications on the left side, and then select Microsoft AutoUpdate. Drag Microsoft AutoUpdate to the Trash (or right click on it and then select Move to Trash option). Right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash option to start the uninstall. This drag-to-delete method works in all versions of Mac OS X.

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Windows 10 has an inbuilt service, the Update Assistant, which helps users upgrade their computers by making sure they have the right set of compatible hardw. Disable the services with random names or contains WINDOWS UPDATE ASSISTANT.EXE in it's name or description. STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler. If you downloaded Office from the Mac App Store, and have automatic updates turned on, your apps will update automatically. But you can also manually download the updates: Open the Mac App Store from your Dock or Finder. Click Updates on the left side menu, then click Update All, or the Update button next to the apps that you want to update.

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Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) version 3.18 and later includes the msupdate command-line tool. The msupdate tool can be used to start the update process for Microsoft applications produced for Mac, such as Office. The tool is primarily designed to give IT administrators more precise control over when updates are applied. You can download the latest version of MAU from this link.

msupdate works by sending Apple Events to the MAU daemon. On macOS 10.14 Mojave and later, you may see a privacy prompt when running msupdate for the first time. If you are using an enterprise management tool such as Jamf Pro, you should deploy a Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) payload to pre-approve access. Samples of such a payload can be downloaded from GitHub.

Use the following steps to start using the tool:

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1. Open the Terminal application
2. Enter cd /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS
3. Run ./msupdate --help

The following options are displayed:

Examples of how to use msupdate

• Display the current configuration parameters for MAU:./msupdate --config
• Display the current configuration parameters in machine-readable format:./msupdate --config --format plist
• List all available updates:./msupdate --list
• Download and install all available updates:./msupdate --install
• Download and install the latest updates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint:./msupdate --install --apps MSWD2019 XCEL2019 PPT32019
• Download and install a version-specific update for Outlook:./msupdate --install --apps OPIM2019 --version 16.17.180090901
• Download and install latest available updates for Excel, wait for 180 seconds (3 minutes) before closing Excel, and display 'Excel will close in 3 minutes to install updates.' on macOS banner notification to notify user:./msupdate --install --apps XCEL2019 -t 180 -m 'Excel will close in 3 minutes to install updates.'

Note

To use the -t and -m modifiers, you must be using Microsoft AutoUpdate 4.24 or later.

Application identifiers

The following table lists the Microsoft applications for Mac supported by MAU. The identifier is used when specifying the --apps parameter. When specifying multiple applications on the command-line, separate identifiers with a space.

Note

• The identifiers for the Office apps, such as Word and Outlook, can be used for Office for Mac (from an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription plan) or for Office 2019 for Mac (either a retail or a volume licensed version).
• If an update is pending for MAU itself, that update must be applied before any applications can be updated.
• Identifiers are not case-sensitive when run interactively from the command-line, but use the character casing in the table when running from a management tool such as Jamf Pro.
• Microsoft Teams might use MAU to provide updates in some scenarios, such as if the Teams updater fails. But, you can't use msupdate to have MAU manage updates for Teams, because Teams doesn't provide admins the ability to deploy and manage updates. Instead, Teams is updated automatically approximately every two weeks with new features and quality updates. For more information, see Teams update process.

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Microsoft uses Windows 10 Update Assistant to download and install Windows 10 on older Windows releases or to update Windows 10 to latest build. Microsoft forcefully install this Update Assistant so even if you uninstall it, it will install back once you restart your PC, login from sleep or hibernation. You may utilize its “Remind me Later” option to postpone downloading and updating Windows. But in a few days, it will forcefully start downloading updates if you ever connect to a Wi-Fi that is not set as metered connection. Then the only options for you to stop it immediately is to uninstall it or stop it from Task Manager. But that’s not going to help on the long run since it will install back or start downloading updates again.

You can temporarily or permanently disable Windows 10 Update Assistant by following these methods:

Set Wi-Fi as Metered Connection
Go to Windows Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > Select Wi-Fi you are connected to > Set as metered Connection

This may temporarily stop Windows Update service including Update Assistant if you are using Wi-Fi to connect to internet. But since Microsoft is famous for making bad decisions, they might decide to still push large Windows 10 updates over metered Wi-Fi connection as well. But as long as they don’t do it, you are fine with it. Additionally if you ever connect to a different Wi-Fi connection or public Wi-Fi, Windows 10 Update Assistant will start downloading updates. Microsoft does not care if that slows down your internet connection or nag you while you are studying, playing online games or doing something important. I shall recommend to follow the second method give below as that would stop Microsoft from pushing updates via Windows 10 Update Assistant a little longer or permanently!

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• Download this Windows10UpgraderApp* file and replace it with the original file in Windows10Upgrade folder in Windows partition (C:)
Windows Partition (C:) > Windows10Upgrade > Replace the Windows10UpgraderApp file with downloaded file.

• Now go to Task Scheduler > Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Update Orchestrator and disable UpdateAssistant, UpdateAssistantCalendarRun, UpdateAssistantWakeupRun and all their triggers. See the screenshots below to get the idea. You must disable triggers for all these three tasks.

• Go to Task Scheduler > Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > WindowsUpdate and disable Automatic App Update, Scheduled Start, sih, sihboot and all their triggers. See the screenshot below.

How To Disable Microsoft Update

[You can access Task Scheduler by going to Start > Windows Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler or simply use Cortona]

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• Open “Services” by going to Start > Windows Administrative Tools > Services > Windows Update, Stop the service and set its Startup type to “Disabled” or “Manual”. Please see this post to read more details about it: How to Disable Windows 10 Updates Permanently

Done!

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* You can create Windows10UpgraderApp.exe file yourself. Just take a text file with .txt extension. Rename that as “Windows10UpgraderApp” and change .txt extension to .exe. Replacing that with original file will make sure that Update Assistant is not started manually since it might reset tasks in Task Scheduler and you would again have to go through the whole process of disabling it.

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Firewall Method
Another fix to stop Windows 10 Update Assistant from downloading any files is to block its connections in your Antivirus Firewall. Please see your antivirus/internet security Firewall help files to learn how to block connections or set rules for applications.

Personally, I hate what Microsoft has started doing after the release of Windows 10. Every other good software gives you the option to decide when you would like to install updates. But Microsoft has simply taken that option away. Now they are offering settings like setting specific Wi-Fi internet connection as metered to temporary halt Windows updates which does not work when you switch to a new Wi-Fi connection. Believe me whenever a corporation starts going downhills it is due to these policies that annoy users and they would start looking for alternatives. By the way Linux based Ubunutu is a really good operating system and today chiefly used for web hosting. It can be installed on PC just like Windows and has got some very good third party apps as well.