I thought I'd disabled software updater's automatic check/download features in the settings so I can just manually do it when I want to, and this works most of the time - but, every once in awhile it'll go off on its own right after I boot up, check for and download the updates without me telling it to, then ask me to install - why does this happen and can I get it to stop? Just want to do updating all myself before I shutdown and no longer need to use the machine.  REASON: very low-end laptop gets locked-up after I boot up when this happens as all its meager resources are maxed out (temps spike) and I can't do anything until it finishes - and you can't tell it's off doing it except for things begin to get choppy, hang, freeze for a bit, etc. and then you'e just stuck :-\  I know - get a better computer, heh, heh...
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Imagine that, I have a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installed. But there are some default packages or services that connects to the Internet without my consent. How to get rid of them completely or make them offline in an effective way?  As far as I now, they are:  popularity-contest - The Ubuntu Popularity Contest (or popcon, in short) gathers statistics determining which packages are the most popular with Ubuntu users.  unattended-upgrades - Automatically upgrades computer with the latest security updates.   apt-daily - Updates apt index every day automatically.   snapd - Updates snap packages automatically.  update-manager - Checks for release updates.  I could be missing something. Please post if you know...  The purpose: I want to have full control over the Internet, as in my case, Internet is limited. So, I wish to update or upgrade manually rather than automatically.
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Sometimes, when I upgrade a system via do-release-upgrade, the update process fails and the script tells me to finish the process manually via dpkg --configure -a. This is a not serious problem - after manually solving the dependencies problem and the finishing upgrade process all works well.  But the do-release-upgrade script has a cleanup process after finishing the upgrade:  Remove obsolete packages?   XXX packages are going to be removed.   Continue [yN]  Details [d]y   which removes some obsolete packages from old version of system.  Seems that this process doesn't execute when the automatic upgrade fails and I finish upgrade manually, so obsolete packages from old version remain installed in the system.  How I can run the "Remove obsolete packages" process manually after finishing the upgrade by hand?
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I like Windows to keep itself up to date via the automatic updates, but sometimes it does that when I'm not at the computer and it's doing something critical, like downloading the latest stack overflow podcast.  How do I prevent Windows from doing the automatic reboot if I'm not there?
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I recently inherited the management of a Windows 2012 server at a remote site.    I checked Windows Update and it has not been updating since March.  When I tell Windows to check for updates, it acts like it is checking, but it seems to say that for hours.   If I attempt to restart the windows update service, it seems to never be able to shut down.  My only remedy seems to be rebooting to get back to the point where I can tell Windows Update to check for new updates.    The last successful check for updates says March 20.  The last time updates were installed says March 17 (failed).  The update history shows that one update failed for March 17, a printer driver update, but the history shows 13 failed updates for Feb 17.  Not sure what else to try.
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I havent used my Ubuntu for quite a long time.  Today, when I booted Ubuntu (14.04 LTS), the software updater and Software &amp; Updates (from Settings) are not working.  The software updater's window will show up for around 1 sec, but it will close automatically. Software &amp; Updates is never shown, no matter how many times I click the icon. Note that neither of them show any error message.  Those 2 features were working perfectly the last time I used Ubuntu. I want to do some system upgrade and update.  For now, I use sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get upgrade. This command runs very fast, meaning (I think) my Ubuntu is not updated properly. The update from software updater always has a big size hence the download should be slower.  What should I do?   Can I just uninstall and reinstall both of them? If I can, how to do it?  Just to clarify, I don't want to upgrade my Ubuntu version (I want the LTS one), I just want to upgrade the software/packages I used.  Thanks for your time.
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I am running Windows 10 on a fairly recent laptop. I'm using Avast (free version) as antivirus and before the update, Windows Defender was turned off as it should be in case a third party antivirus is installed.  Yesterday I received a notification of an available update for the OS. I ran the update on shut down, and this morning when turning the computer on, it completed the updating procedure in about 1 hour.   The update, as far as I can tell, restored a lot of bloatware that was installed on the PC at the time of the purchase, installed some additional Visual Studio components and some new applications, and it turned on Windows Defender.   I find this all weird since Avast was (and still is) running fine as usual, but now I have a resource hog (Windows Defender) sucking on my PC resources. Furthermore Cortana is running in the background even though I disabled it...   Why has this thing happened and how can I turn Windows Defender off? Since apparently it has not detected that Avast is running, it somehow turned itself back on again.
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I was attempting to update my 11.10 install to 12.04beta. During the install step, I accidentally lost power to my laptop (the power cable came unplugged) and it shut down. Whenever I go to boot now, I can select my install via Grub and it loads up to where the sign-in should happen, but I get a display that looks like what you see as soon as you shut down. It looks like it locks after checking for the battery.   Is there anyway, with or without Live media, to restore my machine's install/update to 12.04 but still keep my settings/applications/files?
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I installed Windows 7 fresh and installed SP1. Now, when I try to check manually for Windows Updates it just hangs on the Checking for updates screen.    I tried running the tools in , but this did not fix the issue either:  No matter what I do it just hangs on the "Checking for updates..." screen and goes no further.
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I can't update my system because it freezes while installing a third-party update (zramswap-enabler)! Sometimes I get the following message in Update manager:  Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message: E:The package zramswap-enabler needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.  I tried to remove the zramswap-enabler, but it's impossible because I get the following message: dpkg: error processing zramswap-enabler (--remove):  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should  reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing:  zramswap-enabler E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)  Actually I would really reinstall that package, but it is unable to do it! If I remove this third-party PPA then the system is warning me about a very very serious problem. So why can I not install/reinstall/remove/update this package and why freezes the updater if I try to update?
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As time goes by we tend to do apt-get install and add or replace software.  Are these archived in some form or do they get auto-cleared after installation? And if it doesn't get auto-cleared, it would mean that a clean up is needed, isn't it?  Finally, if they're not auto-removed, can we reuse these packages on different machines?
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It often happens that I have to watch this screen for minutes:    I have no clue what's happening in the back. And I'm also not interested in watching the  for changes.  I would love to know if there's a way that gives more feedback. Preferably something I can invoke from the command line (like apt-get).
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When I run software updater it says that it failed to download repository information and to check Internet connectivity.  I have Internet connectivity.  How do I fix this?  editing to add content of sources,list:  sorry I can't figure out how to paste in the content of sources.list without making a huge mess.  Some of it previews as really large bold print.  I tried to follow the block quoting and code rules but it is a huge mess anyway.
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So windows 10 has this annoying habit of downloading updates over WiFi connections not marked as metered connections.  I have to connect to a limited WiFi hotspot, and by the time I set the connection to metered, some updates had already started downloading. So I went to services.msc and stopped windows updater.   Now when I go to Settings->Update and Security->Windows Update, It says "Updates are ready to download". That is just fine, but when I click on "Details" of the updates, some updates still shows 'Downloading'. My bandwidth is not getting used up by this, but a process called "From Microsoft Download/Upload host" is constantly using high amounts of my CPU power, causing heating and battery drain.  How can I solve this problem? I believe totally cancelling all ongoing updates will solve this, but don't know how to do it.
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I have recently installed ubuntu 11.10. But when i try to install a software it tries to 'updating cache' but after a while, it stops, showing:                            Failed to download repository information                           Check your internet connection   so, now i am totally unable to install any software in my ubuntu.  Please,let me know how to solve the problem.
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I have visited tons of websites and watched dozens of Youtube videos, yet I can't find a solution to my problem.  I recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 10, and now it won't shutdown properly.  I have turned off fast startup and sleep mode from power options.  Here is what happens:   Start menu > Power > Shut down It exits windows and apparently turns off (black screen) The power lights are still on and my computer apparently doesn't shutdown.
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I've a windows 10 copy running in my core i5 second gen laptop. Now there is this issue where the hard disk usage goes to 100% and the system doesn't respond for a few seconds to even few minutes. I've run process monitor, resource monitor and found that the system uses the disk so much. This doesn't happen when the pc is on idle rather, if I open a folder or any other window, the hard disk usage spikes to 100% and be there for a long time! which is unusual.   I looked at the event log and there I saw a lot of events with the following message.  The start type of the Windows Modules Installer service was changed from demand start to auto start   I couldn't find what is wrong with the system. I use bitdefender 2015 antivirus and tried switching it off. Then again I disabled windows search, indexing service and all possible solutions I could find over the internet. Installed Ccleaner and did a registry clean and a system cleanup. Nothing worked and now the system is unusable! I cannot re - install windows since I don't have most of the software I've already installed.   If it helps the laptop is a Dell Inspiron n5110. Please help me..
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The problem I am experiencing is that if the battery is not present, the CPU is automatically throttled.  I have done some searching and have found that this is apparently by design, "in case the power supply cannot supply enough power, so the machine won't shut off."  Now, here is the problem.  I can't put the battery back in, because it started swelling up like crazy.  I can't really justify the cost of a new battery for a machine this old and I can't really afford a new computer, so I'm stuck with this machine.  It still works, but throttled back, a lot of things like flash video players are almost useless at the reduced CPU usage.  I don't really care if the machine shuts off if the supply can't keep up with power requirements.  My understanding is that this really should only happen if the supply is mismatched, i.e. from an adapter designed for a smaller machine, but even if its not it is just as intolerable to have to reload netflix every 30 seconds when it loses sync than an occasional power loss would be.  Besides, it is already losing power every time I need to move it somewhere.  So, what's the solution?  There has to be some way to override the throttling, right?  By the way, I have already tried sudo pmset -a dps 0 but that just gives me a usage message.