Disable automatic updates for Windows 10 Home

braindead0 wrote:

Elew wrote:
We use Windows10 on our two 'home computers', but I also work online, and one place I work for uses RetailPro, which is not Windows10 compatible.

If there are compatibility reasons for avoiding it altogether, you can download Never10 app, and it will block the Windows10 upgrade virus. It works well, and Norton/Malwarebytes approved

In the end my work laptop is still on Windows7...

Why download and install an app to block Win10 upgrade? Norton/Malwarebytes miss things all the time, in particular 0-day problems. It's much safer to make the registry changes:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
"AllowOSUpgrade"=dword:00000000
"ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\State]

There's another that will get rid of the toolbar nagging, search for DisableGWX and you'll find that.

You DO realize that most folks will have Win10 HOME EDITION and not "Pro" or "enterprise"?

You DO realize that WIN 10 HOME EDITION DOES NOT HAVE WINDOWS "REGISTRY EDITOR" OR "GROUP POLICY"?? Unless YOU have found some sort of "hack workaround" there is no way you can fully turn off or disable automatic updates on Win10 HOME edition..

Only Pro and Enterprise versions can use Registry Editor and Group Policy and even then you can only DEFER or DELAY the automatic updates for a SHORT TIME. It was done this way to allow for businesses IT departments to FULLY TEST THE UPDATES BEFORE ALLOWING THE UPDATES TO BE PUSHED TO THE CLIENTS.

Win10 HOME EDITION you can only set it to "metered connection" and that ONLY works for WIFI.. Does not work if you plug an Ethernet cable into your PC..

I am not convinced that you can even turn off Windows Update Service (WSUS) permanently either on Win10, I am very sure MS IS smarter than that..