Windows 11 Hide Updates in Settings
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Hellbovine
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You are saying the word "Updates" but the screenshot is from the "System" page and is pointing to "Power & battery" settings.
Are you wanting to hide the clickable bar that is highlighted in light grey in that screenshot, meaning in this example the "Power & battery" bar would disappear? If so, the term you are looking for is URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) and can be handled with registry edits as you mentioned.
If what I'm saying is what you are after, then I also think what you are asking is if all the URI tweaks can be added to NTLite, or another idea would be to have NTLite automatically add relevant URI tweaks whenever it removes component(s) that are required for a specific URI to work right, otherwise when these things are clicked on, they fail to launch if their files are removed. Also, some people just want to simply hide the pages for clutter reasons or to prevent users from easily accessing those pages.
I'd also change the title from, "Windows 11 Windows 10" because that is non-informative, to something like, "NTLite URI Tweaks" or anything else more specific to what you are asking.
Are you wanting to hide the clickable bar that is highlighted in light grey in that screenshot, meaning in this example the "Power & battery" bar would disappear? If so, the term you are looking for is URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) and can be handled with registry edits as you mentioned.
If what I'm saying is what you are after, then I also think what you are asking is if all the URI tweaks can be added to NTLite, or another idea would be to have NTLite automatically add relevant URI tweaks whenever it removes component(s) that are required for a specific URI to work right, otherwise when these things are clicked on, they fail to launch if their files are removed. Also, some people just want to simply hide the pages for clutter reasons or to prevent users from easily accessing those pages.
I'd also change the title from, "Windows 11 Windows 10" because that is non-informative, to something like, "NTLite URI Tweaks" or anything else more specific to what you are asking.
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I'm guessing he wants to hide individual pending Updates. Which is possible using the WUS troubleshooter, or one of two PS modules, but only after your system has received Updates data. You can't pre-emptively block a given KB from the image, because there's no data to manipulate until it's been provisioned by scanning for updates.
I don't really see much benefit, except to block out unwanted one-time updates.
Most updates for CU or Defender/MSRT follow a release cycle, so the updates list is always dynamic. Either you're accepting updates, or blocking them. If you're blocking updates, then there's no need to hide something you don't care about.
The non-CU updates are usually one-time KB's for Intel MMIO or SecureBoot DBX, and the stupid Disk Cleanup tool.
I don't really see much benefit, except to block out unwanted one-time updates.
Most updates for CU or Defender/MSRT follow a release cycle, so the updates list is always dynamic. Either you're accepting updates, or blocking them. If you're blocking updates, then there's no need to hide something you don't care about.
The non-CU updates are usually one-time KB's for Intel MMIO or SecureBoot DBX, and the stupid Disk Cleanup tool.
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Apparently, we're talking about Manage the Settings app with Group Policy
NTLite already updates this GPO if you remove some Windows features; because SystemSettings is a monolithic app, and removing a component doesn't automatically tweak the Settings screen. You're obligated to hide features which are obviously removed.
The problem I see is NTLite needs to take control, so having you editing at the same time isn't a good idea. Unfortunately there isn't an authorative list of which settings are available for each Windows release, nor any API to dump them out.
While you can play with the reg key, I don't think NTLite should be encouraging users to tamper with it.
[FIXED] Windows Update is not shown in Settings
NTLite already updates this GPO if you remove some Windows features; because SystemSettings is a monolithic app, and removing a component doesn't automatically tweak the Settings screen. You're obligated to hide features which are obviously removed.
The problem I see is NTLite needs to take control, so having you editing at the same time isn't a good idea. Unfortunately there isn't an authorative list of which settings are available for each Windows release, nor any API to dump them out.
While you can play with the reg key, I don't think NTLite should be encouraging users to tamper with it.
[FIXED] Windows Update is not shown in Settings
Hellbovine
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I'm not on Windows 11, but I tested it on Windows 10 and attached a .reg file that you can edit, along with this (link) for more options. Just scroll down the list and look for what you want to hide, then add it to the .reg file by placing a semicolon between each page:
Hiding 1 page (Windows Update) would be:
"hide:windowsupdate"
Hiding additional pages (Windows Update / Sync) would be:
"hide:windowsupdate;sync"
"hide:windowsupdate"
Hiding additional pages (Windows Update / Sync) would be:
"hide:windowsupdate;sync"
On that website I linked, ignore the "ms-settings:" text when adding pages to this registry file. A trick you can do though, is open something like a run prompt and type ms-settings:windowsupdate and it will directly open that page for viewing. This is useful because you could create custom shortcuts to various settings pages from your desktop.
If this isn't what you are looking for, then you'll need to give us some more information in writing so we can better figure out what you need.
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