With an advanced world were everything has become digital, updates will never lack. Most especially when the main talk of today is more centered around technology.
You have a smartphone, they'll ask for updates: You have a Personal computer, they'll require that you do some updates, and many other devices.
Well, these Updates are very important aspects of our devices like our phones, and laptops because updates make our devices frequently in good form and up to date with both the device systems and the device softwares.
Though they are important, they can also be very annoying. For example you use your PC today and you will notice they are asking for a quick update and you do the update. A week later, the same application or software in your PC requires an update again; or even your PC's version requiring updates frequently.
They will just keep getting you on your nerves and one day you'll be tired of these updates. And more often when the update are even done automatically and you won't be able to access the internet easily due to the fear that the updates will wipe off your internet connection.
Well, in this article, we have brought some steps for you to know how to stop automatic updates on your Windows 10 computer or PC.
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How to block windows 10 automatic updates
Watch the full method in the video provided below
But with these updates always on automatically, they come to drain our data bundles and can make us at times very furious especially when we put our data bundles for a specified purpose. But that will come to an end after this short tutorial on how to permanently block windows 10 updates on our PCs.
There are three main methods on how to block windows 10 updates on our PCs. These methods will involve a manual and an automatic one with the automatic one involving a specific application to be installed that will do all for you and the manual which you will just have to set it manually.
Requirements
- A laptop with windows 10 system installed in it
- The needed application for the procedure(see below)
- An internet connection
Method 1. Using Windows plus "R" button
This method is the manual one and just follow the following procedure till the end to stop the automatic updates.
- First thing is to tap on the windows button plus the "R"
- After you will see a next window that will open on the bottom left of your screen and type on the given space below 'services.msc' and tap on OK.
- After you will scroll down and search for the 'windows updates' option and double click on it and open it.
- On the next window, you will click on disabled on the manual place selected as shown below and click on apply then OK.
After doing the following procedure, your automatic updates have been stopped. But this procedure is not the best procedure to use to stop automatic updates for windows 10.
This is because this procedure is first of all a temporary method and the process has to be done everyday to continuously stop the windows everyday. And also, this process is not very efficient because it does not stop all the automatic updates of your PC as some other few updates might continue in the background.
But its not a bad news as we have brought the second method to you with the use of the software
Method 2. Using Group Policy Editor:
- Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box.
- Type "gpedit.msc" and press Enter to open the Group Policy Editor.
- Navigate to "Computer Configuration" > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Windows Update".
For Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions:
- Double-click on "Configure Automatic Updates".
- Select the "Disabled" option.
- Click Apply and then OK.
For Windows 10 Home edition:
- Open the "Windows Update" folder.
- Double-click "Configure Automatic Updates".
- Select the "Enabled" option, then choose option 2: "Notify for download and notify for install".
- Click Apply and then OK.
Method 3: Using the software
- The first thing to do is to download the software which you can download using the link below and then install it.
- Then after you will open it and just click on the stop windows update button and the software will block all available updates permanently till further notice.
Should I disable Automatic Updates on my PC?
Well, update are very important for your system speed and for your system requirements, but updates are not all but good.
Whether you should disable or enable automatic updates it's up to you. Automatic updates I bet you will always interfere with your data at the time you least expected. The day you might want to download one of your favorite movies or series, a quick automatic update can just wipe off your data to zero megabytes.
But on the other hand, these updates will make your computer very much up to date especially on the security page(Virus attacks).
But also, updates are not very important when just released cause when they are just released, they are still tested and if it's good, they'll maintain it: but if not, they'll try to make it better which will cause a second update.
So, activation of automatic updates or deactivation of automatic updates is up to you. Just for you to know how good it is and how bad it is.
Conclusion on how to off Windows updates
After doing this second method, all your automatic updates will stop and is much more efficient that the first method that stops temporarily for just a day some automatic updates.
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