{"id":9187,"date":"2020-01-23T06:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:16:34","slug":"how-to-turn-off-windows-10-update-in-simple-3-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-turn-off-windows-10-update-in-simple-3-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn Off Windows 10 Update in simple 3 ways?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Windows 10 Update<\/strong> is essential for any users to work smoothly on his system. you can turn off this feature in 3 ways. But in my opinion, you should not stop the windows update. I realize that after two to three updates. It goes to a stable position. After that if you want to stop the update you can follow below steps :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Option <\/strong>1:<strong> Windows <\/strong>Update<strong> Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Press Window + R (Run Command), Type <strong>services.msc<\/strong> and press Enter<\/li><li>Then Find <strong>Windows Update<\/strong> in services list and open it<\/li><li>In &#8216;General Tab&#8217; find <strong>Startup type<\/strong> and change it to <strong>Disabled<\/strong><\/li><li>Then Restart Your System.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/run-command.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9485\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/run-command.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/run-command-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/services-windows-update.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/services-windows-update.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/services-windows-update-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/services-windows-update-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/windows-update-properties.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/windows-update-properties.jpg 411w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/windows-update-properties-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To Enable <strong>Windows update<\/strong> simply follow above steps and change <strong>Startup type<\/strong> to &#8216;Automatic&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 2: Setup a Metered Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using wifi connection then you can set it to Metered Connection to stop some updates to your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open the setting App (Press Window + I)<\/li><li>Open &#8220;Network &amp; Internet&#8221;<\/li><li>Open &#8220;Wi-Fi&#8221; and click on &#8220;Wifi Name&#8221;<\/li><li>Find &#8220;Set as metered connection&#8221; to On<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: If Your PC connected through Lan Cable then Metered Connection option is disabled. This option will work only with Wi-Fi Connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/setting-app-1024x624.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9489\" width=\"580\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/setting-app-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/setting-app-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/setting-app-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/setting-app.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wifi-settings-1024x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wifi-settings-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wifi-settings-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wifi-settings-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wifi-settings.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-as-metered-connection-1024x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-as-metered-connection-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-as-metered-connection-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-as-metered-connection-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-as-metered-connection.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 3: Group Policy Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group policy editor will help you to notify the latest update before it updates automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open Run command (Press Window + R)<\/li><li>Type <strong>gpedit.msc<\/strong> and press Enter<\/li><li>Click on Computer Configuration \u21e8\u00a0Administrative Templates\u00a0\u21e8\u00a0Windows Components\u00a0\u21e8\u00a0Windows Update<\/li><li>Open <strong>Configure Automatic Updates\u00a0<\/strong>and change settings to\u00a0&#8220;<strong>2 &#8211; Notify for download and auto install<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li><li>Then Click on Apply and Ok<\/li><li>Open the Setting App (Window + I) and select <strong>Update &amp; Security\u00a0\u21e8 Windows Update<\/strong><\/li><li>Then Click &#8220;<strong>Check for Updates<\/strong>&#8221; Which apply the new configuration settings<\/li><li>Then <strong>Restart<\/strong> your System<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gpedit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gpedit.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gpedit-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/group-policy-editor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/group-policy-editor.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/group-policy-editor-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates-setting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates-setting-2.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/configure-automatic-updates-setting-2-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/update-and-security.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/update-and-security.jpg 937w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/update-and-security-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/update-and-security-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"871\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/check-for-updates-windows-update.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/check-for-updates-windows-update.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/check-for-updates-windows-update-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/check-for-updates-windows-update-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 Update is essential for any users to work smoothly on his system. you can turn off this feature in 3 ways. But in my opinion, you should not stop the windows update. I realize that after two to three updates. It goes to a stable position. After that if you want to stop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,55],"tags":[5721,549,229,346,5720,5719],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-windows","tag-group-policy","tag-security","tag-services","tag-updates","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}