How to Hide Optional Windows Updates?

In Win-7- Hiding Optional Updates was Easy, and made my system load/run Much Faster!

In Win-10- Is there a way to Hide Optional Windows Updates?

Use wushowhide.diagcab to hide any update you don't wont to install.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...lling-in-windo

scottls59901 said:

In Win-10- Is there a way to Hide Optional Windows Updates?

If they can be found by Windows Update MiniTool, use the tool to hide them.
If they cannot be found by the tool, you don't have to do anything, as they will not be installed automatically.

dalchina said:

How do you do that? I don't know a way to do that presently with one simple setting, but here's the change that's coming in 20H1 (apparently):

Windows 10 is Getting a New Optional Update Experience

Very Interesting!
In Win-7 Optional Updates-
you could Right Click on the Update/Hide, and the Update would stop loading on Startup/Reboot!
Hope this change allows that too!?

scottls59901 said:

In Win-7 Optional Updates- you could Right Click on the Update/Hide, and the Update would stop loading on Startup/Reboot!

Optional updates in Windows 10 serve a quite different purpose from those in Windows 7. for W7 they were an (ever growing) list of patches that you may (or may not) need. Sooner or later you had to hide some of them just to be able to make sense of the apparently never-ending list.

In Windows 10 there will only ever be one optional Quality Update. That's because they are a cumulative updates, including all patches and security fixes from previous CUs. Each Patch Tuesday (2nd Tuesday of the month) a non-optional CU is issued that has the latest patches and security fixes. Any CU issued in the next week will only have new non-security fixes, which is why it is marked as optional. Should another optional CU be issued the week after that it supersedes the previous one, meaning only one optional update will be offered - the latest one.

These optional CUs contain previews of the patches to be included in the next month's Patch Tuesday CU release. Once the Patch Tuesday CU is released it supersedes any previous CU (be that optional or otherwise) and you will never see the previous CUs offered again.