Proceed at your own risk. You should really consider leaving automatic updates enabled for security reasons. This setting can be configured in the registry, too. This registry hack does exactly the same thing as the above Group Policy setting. However, it also only seems to work on Professional editions of Windows Download our Disable Automatic Updates on Windows 10 registry hack and double-click one of the included.
This only worked when we tried it on Windows 10 Pro, not Home. You have to perform a check for updates before Windows Update notices your changed setting. It involves disabling the Windows Update system service in the Windows services administration tool. To prevent Windows from automatically downloading updates on any PC, just set its connection as metered. Windows Mac iPhone Android. Smarthome Office Security Linux. The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles.
How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. Since we launched in , our articles have been read more than 1 billion times. Windows 10 is a great OS used by many people these years. Before you download Windows 10 64 or 32 bit OS for your PC, you can firstly check the minimum requirements for installing Windows 10 below.
Related tutorial to help you find out your computer specs: How to check PC full specs Windows If you buy a new computer that comes with an original Windows 10 installation disc , you can also install Windows 10 OS from the installation disc. How to stop Windows 11 update? This post provides 5 solutions to let you disable automatic updates on Windows Check the step-by-step guide.
Then you can see your system type under Device specifications. After you get Windows 10 64 bit or 32 bit downloaded and installed on your PC, you can use the ways to below to keep your OS up-to-date.
Windows will automatically detect newer updates for Windows
If you buy a new computer that comes with an original Windows 10 installation disc , you can also install Windows 10 OS from the installation disc.
How to stop Windows 11 update? This post provides 5 solutions to let you disable automatic updates on Windows Check the step-by-step guide. Then you can see your system type under Device specifications. After you get Windows 10 64 bit or 32 bit downloaded and installed on your PC, you can use the ways to below to keep your OS up-to-date. Windows will automatically detect newer updates for Windows If you find some newer updates available, you can select one to install on your PC.
After downloading, you can click the Windows update exe file and follow the instructions to install the latest update of Windows Also learn how to change Windows 11 password.
If you have the "Pro" version of Windows, then follow the instructions I gave above. That is the best you can do now. It at least allows you to decide when updates are downloaded and installed. If you have the "Home" version, the only thing you can do is suspend rebooting until a set time that you can define. Microsoft has configured Windows 10 to automatically download and install updates. This has angered many people.
Microsoft will not change it as they feel that keeping Windows systems up to date prevents bad things from happening to the computers. In theory this is fine. There are two other problems that go along with this new update policy. If you have installed a problem update, it is almost impossible to get rid of it.
If you uninstall it, the update will come right back just like Jason in Friday the 13th. You used to be able to uninstall an update and then uncheck or "hide" it so it would not download again, at least until you were satisfied it was fixed. That option has been pretty much taken away although they have a tool stashed away somewhere that can do this, but from what I hear it does not always work. The other problem with Microsoft's new policy is that they now download and install device drivers to your system.
This can really wreak havoc with systems when all of a sudden a device driver is installed and breaks the device. Also with the new Anniversary Update, Microsoft has removed some of the customization capabilities in Group Policy Editor.
Who knows how far they will take that. So that is the quandary. Windows 10 is a nice operating system when they finally get all the bugs out of it. It is was free, however you will paying in other ways such as ads for not initially paying for the OS. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I understand that you are willing to turn off the Automatic Updates on Windows I will certainly help you.
