How do you stop automatic updates on my computer

Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 63 people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Please Note: if you disable Windows 10 Updates, your system will be at risk from attack. If you do decide to turn off Automatic Updates, you should download them from the Microsoft Catalog Page and install them manually at a convenient time. This no longer works, Windows is enabling that service on it's own now.

I'm attempting to disable via gpedit. Every time an update tries to occur it destroys my entire network internet connection and all the users start screaming. That's why it should be made easy and sticky to only notify of updates but not download or do them until the users gives consent.

This is an issue for all types of users, dumb or sophisticated. MS just makes it ridiculously hard to take control of updates, and particularly hard in W10 Home. Once you think you have it stopped then when you do allow an update they turn it all on again for you.

Now they've removed the registry value you can tweak to accomplish this in Home version, and you are forced to collect a bunch of missing features and get them installed in your OS again.

If you do get it working it will probably all just disappear again next time you do an update. I have no problem if Windows notifies me and I can apply updates when I have time to fix everything the update breaks.

But unilaterally applying an update that can eff up my system without allowing me to accept or delay that update is not good. I've had updates bomb out my system the evening before a critical presentation and, oh-well, you're out of luck. Enjoy your brick in front of a customer. In this method, we are going to use the Local Group Policy Editor.

Alternatively, open Run command box, type Gpedit. Step 3: On the right-side, double-click on the policy labelled Configure Automatic Updates to open its properties. Step 4: Select Enabled option.

If it's the search box called "Cortana", I disabled it, because it seemed like a gimmick. Plus, the taskbar is not the best place for it, for me. If that's the one, can you tell me how to re-enable it. And also maybe tell me how I can put is somewhere else besides the taskbar, and I will be able to keep it open.

Somehow I have checked automatic update for Urgent Driver updates. How can I change these settings? I would like to update all Drivers through SupportAssist manually not automatic. Select "Disable" beneath Notification in the Notification Settings section. Dell Support Alerts are automatically disabled. Coincidentally, I found instructions to get the run search box, while trying to find help with one of the other many problems I'm having with Windows 10 not that I'm saying those problems are Dell's fault, but Win10 is the worst of all the MS operating systems I've used.

Ok, I've got msconfig and the Services tab, but "SupportSoft sprtcmd" isn't in the list. Could it be called something else? Like maybe it has "microsoft" or "windows" in front of it? Hhmm, nothing called Dell Support Center there. I tried some that were similarly named, but none have any "User Settings" area. That's because you don't want to restore a restore point made before the update.

That would give your computer a toxic mixture of old and new system files, system drivers and registry hives that is almost guaranteed to crash. Even at it's best, which isn't saying much in my opinion, System Restore was not designed to pull a computer out of serious trouble. Only a backup can do that, and System Restore is not a backup nor was it ever claimed to be a backup.

Restore points contain key system files, system drivers and registry hives that were intended to hopefully restore the Windows UI so that users would have access to Windows' own tools to help them solve a problem. System Restore is turned off by default in Windows 10 I believe, correction appreciated because there's a much better way to pull a computer out of otherwise irretrievable trouble: restore a backup.

When System Restore was first introduced with Windows ME, home users did not have access to convenient image backup software as we do now. Today there are many excellent third-party image backup applications that make it easy and convenient to backup and restore your entire computer in one shot in just minutes.

Microsoft hasn't said in so many words why they deprecated Windows' own System Image Builder with the Fall Creators Update, but I can take a guess: Like many other utilities that have been included in Windows over the years for no extra charge - like Fax and Scan, Snipping Tool, Voice Recorder, Wordpad, etc.

Rather, these utilities provide a fundamental level of functionality for users who don't know how to install software or are too anxious to try. Considering how much excellent image backup software there is in the third-party space, developed by organizations that specialize in that technology, Microsoft might have said "why try to re-invent the wheel?

Of course, many of the same people who complain endlessly about how terrible Windows is don't backup. They have lots of excuses, even though computer bloggers, teachers, authors and media personalities have been practically begging people for years to backup. When you have an image backup you are as close to bullet-proof as you can be with a computer. In just a few minutes you can send your computer back in time to when everything was fine.

But people don't do it. I'm not claiming that Windows 10 is blameless, not at all. They've got a lot of attitude that needs adjusting. But it's too convenient to blame Microsoft for everything that goes wrong. If you read through the posts in the forum, you'll quickly see that many posters are at the bottom of the barrel in computer skills and in common sense, in some cases. Other posters don't think its their responsibility to learn how to use a computer.

These people make a mess of things and, of course, they blame Microsoft. Finding a way to stop updates is not the answer to avoiding computer problems and the attempt will eventually stop working, anyway.

Learning how to use a computer, just like someone learns how to use a dishwasher, a car, a hand drill, etc. And if someone doesn't believe they should have to do that, at least learn how to backup. TNT This thread is locked. Update, May With the Windows 10 Creators Update , Microsoft has largely addressed the forced updates that often resulted in lost work.

And, while the the recent WannaCry ransomware does not thus far appear to affect Windows 10, you need to make sure your PC is kept up-to-date with security patches to avoid exactly those sort of attacks. To that end, consider the information below to be out of date, with a more thorough update to come.

As a general rule, an up-to-date operating system is a secure operating system, and some people are terrible at updating their operating systems. That's probably why Microsoft has -- controversially -- decided to make Windows 10 an automatically-updating OS. Windows 10 automatically checks for, downloads and installs new updates to your PC -- whether you like it or not.

This new feature is actually pretty convenient for most users, but not everyone wants their operating system updated on Microsoft's schedule. And it's one of the reasons you might not want to upgrade to Windows 10 just yet.