WAU Mananger - What exactly can it do and not do?

Even a security update can be stopped as shown below:


It cannot be installed automatically, but I can install it manually as shown below:


After the installation, Windows is up to date as shown below:

f14tomcat said:

You can't (or shouldn't) stop Security Updates, such as Patch Tuesday. Sledgehammer or other 3rd party tools may be able to stop them, but you are running high risk by doing so. Other MS updates are optional, such as 2004. End of life OS upgrade is another issue altogether.

As you may have guessed I am no computer expert and most probably get the terminology wrong.
I did think 2004 was a forced update but it looks like it isn't.

I've been reading a lot over the months before I decided to get a new laptop with Windows 10 on it and one I thing I wanted to do was to update when I knew there was nothing serious wrong with them.
As mentioned by others, there are other important updates that need doing apart from the main ones which I forgot about.

I'm just trying to work out the best way to go about this.

I'm using WAU Manager which allows me to choose which updates to install but didn't realize it could not stop the main updates from installing.

I guess it's still worth using WAU Manager (I like that it still updates 'Virus & Threat Protection' updates) but someone mentioned 'Sledgehammer' which seems to do what I'm after.

Or I could go back to just using Windows Update and keep pausing every month or so that they allow but that won't stop the main update when it arrives.

I don't like messing about with Windows too much, but I do like to get it working the way I want it to work, and the updates situation is not one of them.

Autobahn said:

it could not stop the main updates from installing.

Which of the following are main updates? None of the following will be installed unless I manually install them.



Reference: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...ml#post1813875

The scripts will (1) stop automatic updates, (2) check for updates automatically, (3) notify you when updates are found (so that you may either install or hide them via Windows Update MiniTool as shown in the above screenshot), and (4) install definition updates automatically.

Autobahn said:

I could go back to just using Windows Update and keep pausing every month or so that they allow but that won't stop the main update when it arrives.

As per your above screenshot, I think the main update refers to quality updates. I have never used the "Pause" function, and the scripts mentioned in my above post have stopped quality updates being installed automatically. The following one was manually installed by me hours ago.

Autobahn said:

'Virus & Threat Protection' updates

The said scripts will install those updates at six-hour intervals as long as they are available.

Autobahn said:

I am no computer expert

Neither am I, and the scripts are so straightforward that even an idiot like me can use them with ease.

f14tomcat said:

It's a philosophical difference on many of these technical points. Technical and philosophical solutions rarely meet on a common point.

An example of being poorly educated: I cannot make sense of the deep philosophy and technicalities.

The point is that I am not educated enough to get the points in your previous post.