Win10 set update day. Samsung S4 add date to top of screen.

You can tell Windows that you are on a metered connection and it won’t do the updates. But as a suggestion change the habit of leaving the docs open for days. Can’t help with the Samsung.

You can configure Windows to ask before updating.

"I routinely have working documents left open for days at a time"

Interesting. I never leave them open...even for a break...and don't experience auto save except on those rare occasions when the power goes out.

There is no way to add date to status bar. If you press on the status bar it will change to display the date. You can also display the date on the lock screen if desired.

Download a date time widget
But it probably will be on the screen you select, Not the status bar
And yes you can set the same widget on multiple screens

If you Goto apps, widgets
And scroll your screensj
You should find a clock & date widget already on the phone
That you can place anywhere you want, like the top of a specific screen

Okay, thanks for the replies.

You can stop most if not all Windows updates by disabling the Windows Update service. The easiest way to get to services is to type "services" in the search box. Scroll down to Windows Update then right click on it. Select "Properties" then change Startup type to "Disabled".

When you want to do an update, you go through the same steps and change Startup type back to what it was originally. You then go into Settings and check for updates.

Wrace wrote:
My desktop and laptop are now running win10, which I am struggling with after being comfortable with win7 for many years.
I routinely have working documents left open for days at a time while working on them (word and excel).

And of course every-time the system decides it needs to update windows it shuts down all those files and saves them as "autosave xyz". Which means I end up with two versions of the same file with different names and I have to go into file manager to clean up the mess.

Can I set the update day/time to once per month or so? Then I will put that day/time on my calendar and will know to shut those programs/files down a day before updates.


Phone: Samsung S4. Android 5.0.1. Verizon

The status bar at the top of the screen currently has: 4G,signal strength bars, battery percentage, battery icon, and time which stay on all the time. Regardless of what screen I'm in.

I want to add the current date to the status bar. How do I do this?

Thanks

Not sure if you asking a question for Win10 OR your Samsung Phone :h

But I will address a couple of Windows things..

First, even though you have left open documents for years on your PCs that IS a very bad thing to do. The autosave feature for years has been saving your bacon from file corruption or loss..

Consider yourself lucky to have TWO USABLE files!

MS office automatically opens a second copy of that file as a TEMP file which is a scratch file, this allows you to modify and then undo modifications until you decide to save the file..

While what you have done has worked for you, eventually you may find yourself with a corrupted file and all your work lost.

It only takes SECONDS to open a file, so SAVE AND CLOSE your files when done editing.

Second, if you want your 10 Desktop to look and act more like say XP/7 there are free add on programs to fix the 10 mess..

CLASSICSHELL.NET can bring back many of the Desktop features like the Startmenu that MS decided users no longer wanted/used/needed.. And it is FREE.

To OP, this thread should be two separate topics as they're not related?

Two things for all your computer experts. 1) W10 is a for the most part, a front end to W7. 2) To stop W10 from restarting all the time, go to Settings, select Update & Security, select Restart Options, under Schedule time , turn it to off. You will now get a notification in the Action center that an update needs a restart. You can now close all open programs, save any files you have open and then do the restart.