I have a very slow laptop that loves to interrupt workflow with background processes I have a tough time keeping at bay (they keep coming back with new updates!). Looking forward to being able to afford a high-powered replacement (this was an emergency purchase mid-lockdown, when non-essential inventory was at a low), but for now... I'm going for a wee lunch hour walk while it moves through its nuisance updates. 🙃
I promise to tell all the flowers, insects, & birds how lovely you folks are. ❤️
@MLClark Easy fix for that. Turn off automatic updates.
@MistyKitty3 I've actually glossed over the full problem, which is that I can't fully deactivate Antimalware Service Executable. That's the program that slows my computer to a crawl, but the system just won't give me full administrator privileges to deactivate it by any method. Updates don't make it easier -- one time they yielded a second iteration of ASE, which ran concurrent to the first. But I'll see if I can try to turn off the updates, at least. ASE slows down every action I make.
@MistyKitty3 Oh, wow. And the mystery deepens. Apparently I'd already turned this off a *long* time ago, probably the last time I put a serious effort into trying to eliminate ASE and other issues slowing down the machine, because the update service was already listed as "Detenido" (off) when I went into the appropriate folder.
So why the heck has it been auto-updating all this time?
Honestly, this OS and this machine...