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How to change windows update settings windows 10 (Updated)

windows update settings

Microsoft regularly releases windows updates with various bug fixes and security improvements And with the latest windows 10 it’s set to download and install automatically. Early versions of Windows 10 did not offer any control over Windows Updates. After hearing user feedback, The company added a few options and settings in recent versions that allow control windows Updates. If you are looking to stop windows 10 updates download and install automatically Here how to change the default behavior of Windows Update in Windows 10.

Stop Windows 10 Update

Here are the official ways to change windows update settings for windows 10.

Pause Windows update

Pause feature & quality updates

With the latest Windows 10 Microsoft churns out two feature updates in a year. If you want to delay a feature update, you can do so for a year. That is, you can defer a feature update for up to 365 days. However, quality updates can be deferred for up to 30 days only.

  1. A feature update includes new capabilities and improvements. It can be deferred for many days.
  2. A quality update includes security improvements. It can be deferred for this many days.

To defer the feature update, in the box below the “A feature update includes new capabilities and improvements. It can be deferred for this many days”, select the number of days until which you want to defer the feature update. As said, you can delay a feature update for up to 365 days.

To delay a quality update, select the number of days from the drop-down box below the “A quality update includes security improvements. It can be deferred for this many days” option. Quality updates can be postponed for a maximum of 30 days.

Set metered connection

Again you can enable metered connection to prevent windows updates from downloading from the Microsoft server.

Stop Windows update install driver  update

With default settings, Windows 10 automatically downloads and updates device drivers. If you want to stop that, follow the steps below.

Disable the Windows Update Service

Windows Update is essentially just another Windows Service, And turn off the Windows Update service didn’t check for and install any updates on your Device.

When you want to re-enable automatic updates you just follow the same procedure except you select “Automatic” when choosing the “Startup Type”.

Change the Group Policy

If you have a Professional, Enterprise, or Education edition of Windows 10, you can turn off automatic updates. But the option is hidden. Here’s what to do it, if you have a later version of Windows 10 these settings still apply, but the wording is slightly different.

Restart your computer to finish updating the group policy editor. Check for updates. You should be notified by Windows if it finds them but they should not be automatically installed any longer.

Tweak windows registry

Well, the group policy feature not available for Windows 10 Home basic editions if you have a device with windows 10 home installed then you can tweak the windows registry to disable windows updates.

That’s all hope now you have an idea of how to stop or change windows update settings on Windows 10.

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