How to skip updates selectively

Hi, a convenient way is to use a 3rd party tool (free) such as WUmgr (Google) or that in Option 7 of the tutorial to disable automatic updates.

These let you manually scan for updates, then hide selected updates.
Enable or Disable Windows Update Automatic Updates in Windows 10


Here's the less convenient MS way:
Hide or Show Windows Updates in Windows 10

There are many tutorials related to Windows Udate and much more. Feel free to explore them

Thanks for that mention of the third-party utility; looks interesting. I have, in the meantime, discovered and run the Microsoft utility: wushowhide.diagcab, which now states that the update is hidden. However it still appears on the list of updates to download and install. I'd like someone's confirmation that, once I connect and begin the download, that one update will indeed be skipped, otherwise I'm terrified that it will install itself and necessitate a rollback to the current version I'm using. Can I expect to have the MS utility do its thing?

UPDATE:
Like I said, I rang that MS wushowhide utility; it found Feature Update 2004, which had been listed for download. I told the utility I wanted that update hidden (and not to run), and let Windows Update do the other ten performance updates. Well, it downloaded and ran 2004 as well, and sure enough I had the problem of no All Apps menu and had to roll back to the previous version. So I'm definitely going to give that third-party utility a whirl. I sure liked Vista and Win7 better, where you could uncheck a box and the associated update would not run.

That's the last tutorial I gave you. I've not used it personally.

You could, of course, disable Windows Update and use a 3rd party tool to manually scan for updates and thus take control. See 1st tutorial.