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qt5/coin/provisioning/common/windows/disable-windows-update-medic.ps1
Heikki Halmet a3136bdbfe Provisioning: Disable or delete unneeded tasks and services
Windows have lot's of tasks and services running which are slowing
the performance of build machine. Also 'windows' and 'windows
defender' updates need's to be "permanently" disabled.

Task-number: QTQAINFRA-3182
Change-Id: I8f6b237fcdc6e38fa9a06836d349821d86c58afc
Reviewed-by: Tony Sarajärvi <tony.sarajarvi@qt.io>
2019-09-17 11:57:11 +03:00

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# Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSvc)'PerformRemediation' helps recover update-related services to the supported configuration.
# WaasMedicSvc keeps re-starting Windows Update, even if it disabled manually.
# Even Admin user don't have privileged to disable PerformRemediation from Task Scheduler which means that WaaSMedicSvc.dll need's to be removed from the system
$limit = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(20)
$path = "C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicSvc.dll"
DO {
takeown /F $path
icacls $path /grant Administrators:f
Write-host "Deleting $path"
Try {
del $path
}
Catch [System.UnauthorizedAccessException] {
Write-host "Access to the path '$path' is denied."
Continue
}
if ((Get-Date) -gt $limit) {
exit 1
}
}while (Test-Path -Path "$path")