Disable automatic updates for Windows 10 Home

rwbradley wrote:
I am also curious. Working in IT security for nearly 15 years I find it difficult to understand what the motivation is. I see not doing updates similar to not changing the oil on your rig for fear you may strip the oil pan threads. In 15 years managing many hundreds of servers and many tens of thousands of workstations I have only had to pull back 2 windows updates. One well over 10 years ago, we did a system restore point and was fixed in an hour, and another about 3 years ago and uninstalled the update and was up in about an hour as well. From my perspective I see it like regular maintenance on the rig, just like the oil change, caulking, regreasing the bearings etc. With the bonus that many updates don't just keep you safe from hackers, they fix things and even improve performance, it just makes sense to me.

The only reason I can wrap my head around is bandwidth usage on a limited internet connection (non unlimited cell plan). For this scenario, the fix is simple, set the network to a Metered Connection and it will not do updates when connected to that connection, but will resume next time you are on a high speed unlimited or free connection.

I guess to each his own.

I'm not the OP but on all of our Windows platforms I have updates set to "notify me". this allows me to do an image backup of the OS partition and to review the updates before downloading and installing. been doin' it this way since forever. I'm disappointed that WinX Home forces updates and currently the only way to have any control is to turn off the update service.

I did a web search and found this article that claims a 3rd party software will allow WinX users to regain control of updates and other privacy concerns. read the information as well as the comment section below it. I might also do another google search on the software itself to see if there are other comments.

good luck.