You will be taken to a new window where you will find a list of all services running and not-running in the background. Click on it select the service, right-click on the Windows Update service and select properties to open Windows Update Properties window. Stop the service and from the drop-down under start-up type, choose the disabled option.
Click on Apply and OK button to save the changes. In the previous builds of Windows 10, Group and Policy editor is one of the best choice to disable or stop Windows 10 automatic update.
However, this option seems to no longer work after Windows 10 Anniversary update as far as Windows auto-update setting change is concerned. But, the options are still available in the gpedit. So, try the option at your own risk.
In order to access the Windows update configuration option for local computers, you need to follow the following path after opening the Group-policy editor.
Just like the previous group-policy configuration, you can disable downloading Windows 10 updates automatically using a registry hack. But, if you have updated your PC to Windows anniversary update or later one, the method is not going to work for you. However, you can try this at your own risk. You can take full control of Windows update services using Windows command prompt.
Run Windows command prompt with administrative privilege. There are few freeware which can cancel Windows 10 from downloading Windows update. The names are as follows:.
Win Update Stop by novirusthanks. Win Updates Disabler by site2unblock. Windows 10 forces users to download and install updates of Windows 10 to the operating system in the background. Microsoft does not provide any option to disable Windows background update.
As it consumes more data, so it is necessary to disable the update downloading anyhow. Here, in this tutorial, I have mentioned all the possible ways to stop Windows update service so that you can get rid of unwanted system reboot and internet data loss. Also useful : Six reasons for not to upgrade your PC to Windows Jit Dutta is a web geek who loves to write articles related to PC and the Internet which helps common people to solve their problems and queries.
Though after enabling it, i get asked to set active hours.. All my hours are active. I don't want any restarts in active or inactive hours. I just want Windows to stop restarting automatically no matter what time it is. I will restart myself when i need it. It's not possible to disable the restart, because the changes made by a feature update can only be processed while the computer is not being used. Most software operates this way. I have the same issue. I am running computer simulations on my machine which take hours to days.
You come back to your machine and it has rebooted, hussah! This is my machine and if I want to use it to make a living I don't want to lose work just because you morons think that an automatic reboot is a funny idea!
I don't want to change active hours. I tried the UpdateOrchestrator option but it already says "Disabled" for reboot, so that obviously doesn't work. And I don't have Windows 10 Pro so I can't use the gpedit option. What update is it? Only updates like the cumulative ones and cumulative. Plus, it will only ask for a restart after the update cumulative is done downloading and finished installing.
Actually, after restarting, then it will counts as a successful install. Normally, Windows will not ask for a restart, or automatically restart, never heard off automatically restart unless it pertains to that update. I never have that issue before. Well, count me as another who hates it. Giving me no option after downloading and installing an update which does not warn the user of this ahead of time other than to have my computer restart without my consent once my active hours which can only be set to a maximum of 18 hours are over There is no valid reason to prevent users from postponing the restart for as long as we wish, and doing it at a time of our choosing.
Anything else leaves me inclined to disable updates altogether. If they can't understand that, they'll be left in Linux's dust. For those that consider Linux too small a contender for that last sentence to be anything but a joke: consider that Android is just a modified Linux OS, and currently holds the largest market share among all internet-connected devices, having overtaken Windows by Not long after Windows 10 was released, come to think And if you search on Microsoft's own bing.
That's more than if you search "Avengers Endgame", for an indication of how popular the idea of disabling this "feature" is. When a customer asks for something, a smart business doesn't respond by trying to tell the customer why they shouldn't want that instead of actually giving it to them.
And no, I'm not going to pay for a more expensive version of Windows so that I can use gpedit to disable this stupidity that never should have existed in the first place. Trying to frustrate me into paying more isn't a great business plan, either.
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Suleiman Boutzamat. Is there any REAL way to disable this cancer feature? This alone is very difficult to argue against in a Mac vs. Windows discussion. Luckily for Microsoft Microsoft have secured themselves from a law suit in their policy. MS knows that all Windows users hates this feature, and yet they still have it. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
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