Pause Updates or Resume Updates for Windows Update in Windows 10  

lx07 said:

Mine too.

Can we make it more than 7 days though?

I was on holiday (for 2 weeks) and had to use data through sim card in my laptop and could only make it pause 7 days.

I'm not talking about deferring feature updates but pausing any updates until later. I don't want 500MB of Adobe updates when I'm paying per MB.

As a workaround, you could disable the "Windows Update" service until you're ready to install updates.

If you have an Insider build installed, you wouldn't have the defer updates feature available.

Windows Update - Defer Feature and Quality Updates in Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

Hello devnull, :)

Pausing updates will pause all updates until you un-pause for up to seven days.

Deferring updates doesn't include all updates, but would be more long term. Think deferring Cumulative Updates.

Windows Update - Defer Feature and Quality Updates in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

Feature updates
With Windows 10, Microsoft will package new features into feature updates that can be deployed using existing management tools. Because feature updates are delivered more frequently than with previous Windows releases — two to three times per year rather than every 3–5 years — changes will be in bite-sized chunks rather than all at once and end user readiness time much shorter.

Quality updates
Monthly updates in previous Windows versions were often overwhelming because of the sheer number of updates available each month. Many organizations selectively chose which updates they wanted to install and which they didn’t, and this created countless scenarios in which organizations deployed essential security updates but picked only a subset of nonsecurity fixes.

In Windows 10, rather than receiving several updates each month and trying to figure out which the organization needs, which ultimately causes platform fragmentation, administrators will see one cumulative monthly update that supersedes the previous month’s update, containing both security and nonsecurity fixes. This approach makes patching simpler and ensures that customers’ devices are more closely aligned with the testing done at Microsoft, reducing unexpected issues resulting from patching. The left side of Figure 1 provides an example of Windows 7 devices in an enterprise and what their current patch level might look like. On the right is what Microsoft’s test environment PCs contain. This drastic difference is the basis for many compatibility issues and system anomalies related to Windows updates.