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That is the online help for Pause Updates which is available across all editions, Home and Pro. That works as described in 2004.
There is a quite separate Defer Updates option giving independent control over Quality and Feature updates. It allows you to defer feature updates for up to 365 days, while still getting cumulative updates (Quality updates) as they are released (or you could defer them for up to 30 days). This is a rolling deferral, each new update will be deferred for the set number of days from its release date. Pause Updates is for blocking all updates until a set data which when reached requires all updated to be installed before you can set it again.
This Defer option is only available in Pro or above, it is this that is absent from 2004.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...eature-updates
I know that it doesn't. But my point is that some people are thinking it is a bug in version 2004 that those options are not available. I don't think it is a bug. It think it is exactly the way that Microsoft intended it to be because the internal help system (virtual assistant or whatever they call it) is showing things exactly the way they are in the OS.
So true... I cannot remember the reason I last used one... and haven't seen one in ages now my family all use fairly recent laptops. I used to carry a USB-powered external slimline optical drive around in my toolkit but realised that I only used it once since I bought it (to test it worked) What a waste of money...
Agreed. Too many times something is seen as a bug and quickly place blame but in further discovery it's only a change, whether it is something one may or may not want. As announced some years ago Windows 10 will always be changing. One of the features of the Open Source Linux is if it is not suitable one can always create their own version as desired.
Well, I guess my questions have been answered but I did not show this as resolved as it has taken off into another area.
There's an open source GitHub project named Ventoy that sets up a small EFI boot partition, and turns the rest of a UFD over to exFAT for storing ISOs. It works by booting enough of the Windows Runtime to mount ISOs from the EFI partition, then turning control over to whichever ISO you mount for further booting, and installation, repair, or whatever.
As you can see, I've got 6 ISOs from which I can boot on my 32-GB Ventoy drive right now, of which 3 or 4 are bigger than the 4GB cutoff for FAT32. Works like a charm.
Here's what it looks like in MiniTool Partition Wizard:
Grab it from https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy; read more about it at Win10.Guru: @Kari's Admin Toolkit writeup (Admin Toolkit: Create multi-OS install media with Ventoy – Win10.Guru), my more recent exhortation to update to version 1.0.12 (Admin Toolkit Item Ventoy Gets Major Update – Win10.Guru).
HTH,
--Ed--