Want to shut down WU !!!!

Matthew Wai,

At this stage of my game, the brain is regressing. You have developed an outstanding method to defeat the WU issue, however, it is probably more than what I can handle.

There used to be a song, probably years before you were born, called 'The old grey mare', 'She ain't what she used to be', 'Many long years ago'... It describes what life feels like these days.

Thanks for the info, though!!

For now, decided to use Option One: To Enable or Disable Automatic Updates using Wu10Man

We shall see how that goes. If it does not work, will go to Option Seven.

Thank you ALL for the help!!
WindowsTenForums is the Best!!!

cottonball said:

Would prefer to do something in W10 itself, rather than installing a third party program, or using an external hard drive, etc.
Is this possible for 32 bit W10 Home??

Yes.

Try3 said:

This is the method I use to stop automatic Windows updates
- metered connections
- permissions removed from USOClient [post #4 by ,TairikuOkami and several other TenForums threads]
Some small security-flagged updates sneak past but never cause a problem.

Added later - KB4023057 is one of the small security-flagged updates that sneak past but it never causes a problem with either of these steps for stopping Windows updates.

Denis

Matthew Wai said:

I confirm that metered connections cannot stop KB4023057, which will probably override or undo any settings for controlling Windows Update.

Does this include YOUR Script?

This is the impact that KB4023057 has on the OS . . .

> KB4023057: Update for Windows 10 Update Service components

Matthew Wai said:

I confirm that metered connections cannot stop KB4023057, which will probably override or undo any settings for controlling Windows Update.

KB4023057 does not make a blind bit of difference to inhibiting Windows update by setting metered connections & crippling USOClient.

KB4023057 is one of a small group of updates that have a security flag [that MS have never defined] that allows them through metering.
- I have never identified any other updates with this flag but they would, if they existed, also sneak past metering.
- It can be stopped by disabling automatic maintenance but I regard that as too much work.

Denis