Enable or Disable Windows Update Automatic Updates in Windows 10  

PeterSt said:

Hi Shawn,

Please apreciate this as a bit of positive criticism, in the end trying to help the community :

First off, possibly because of your updating the OP, it is not consistent now. I mean, what the Registry appliances do, is not represented by the GroupEditor means. This is related to the Disable, which is not dealt with in the GPEdit outlay at all (but one of the registry entries does).

Next, IMO you must be quite careful for what happens at July 29 and beyond, because Windows 10 Updates can not be prevented in the RTM, if all is right. That is, for under Enterprise and Enterprise still can, they say.

Lastly, and I can't be sure whether you are aware of it, the explicit issue of Windows 10 is thus that it can not prevent fom Auto Updates. This is just MS strategy. And now comes this thread, people looking for means to shut off auto updates. IOW, if all is right, this thread will be obsolete soon hence will provide explicitly wrong information, soon.
And don't ask me how it will look like; maybe GPEdit won't show the possibility but the Registry entry is still respected (with all its current possible values). We can only tell when the RTM is there.

Currently I use other means myself to stop the updates, but for that too we need to wait for the RTM to see whether that is still effective. And if not, I'm usually creative enough for some counterattacks.

Anyway, main reason to post is to let know that while this thread should be about very explicit stopping the updates (for those who don't want that), at this moment it's just a thread like it could exist for Windows 8 etc. But for W10 it's really a big deal. And just saying : The Preview Builds nicely testified how things got worse and worse. Nobody wants that.

Lastly FYI, if you didn't know already :
Home (version) users will receive all the updates, they say. When they stop complaining finally (update now "works fine") the update will be provided to Pro etc. users.

Kind regards,
Peter

PS: If this is already dealt with somewhere in the forum, I apologize (I did not search). But in that case this thread here is still a kind of "obsolete" .

Hello Peter, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

Currently, the tutorial works just fine in all editions of Windows 10, so it's not obsolete.

I'm not sure what you mean by the tutorial not being consistent. The .reg downloads are exactly the same as what group policy sets in the registry. Both options in the tutorial are for the same settings.

I will of course test the tutorial again in all RTM editions, and make any needed updates to the tutorial at that time.

The disabled part is in the yellow highlighted part at the top left, but the screenshot is just an example. The written steps is what is important.

Yes, I know folks want to disable, and that's why the tutorial includes a way to completely disable, and a way to notify. That way everyone can have an option for what they may want.

The purpose of notify is to let you know when you have updates available to see if you want to download and install them. If you don't then you can simply hide the update(s) (see related tutorials at bottom of tutorial) to no longer have them available and get a notification about.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html

Yes, I know I always recommend to install updates, but that's because you will leave Windows unpatched and more vulnerable to security risks if you don't. If you're in a situation where you can't risk updates causing an issue, then it would be best to wait a week or so after they are available before installing them. This way any unknown issues from the update at the time would be patched by then. Plus, you can also always uninstall an update if you have an issue with it.

if so did it work properly? i'm looking at using option two reg merge - thanks

macguru said:

if so did it work properly? i'm looking at using option two reg merge - thanks

I ran the 2nd option reg merge - but so far I see no changes .. this is for freshly upgraded 10240 win 10
oddly enough before I could get the updater working for win10 I had the option box 'defer upgrades'
one of the updates must have disabled that
initially updates were hanging during download - after many attempts I was finally able to get updates to completion (of particular need was the one that causes explorer to crash which I ran into immediately) - I'm not sure if the updater is buggy or if there was just too much congestion at the servers

I will monitor the system to see if this new setting might mysteriously take effect later as one poster noted happened on his machine

thanks again shawn for the excellent work!

Hello Macguru,

Yep, it still works for me. :)

Macguru,

Windows 10 Home users would have to use OPTION TWO in the tutorial since it doesn't include group policy.

If you have the red "some settings are managed by your organization" message in advanced options, then it worked.

The "Available updates will be downloaded and installed automatically." message you see in Windows Update is just a generic note, and is not what determines if the setting worked.