Windows 10 "Updates are available" POPUP (VERY ANNOYING)

The obvious fix for the popup is to update. Short of doing that I don't know what else you might do.

The system is doing what it's supposed to, notify the user updates are available, and by not updating you're in an endless loop.

On Win7 I had mine set to "notify" only, then the user had the option of updating when it was convenient. Since upgrading to W10 Home I've left it on "Automatic"

I turn my computer off every day when I'm done using it, the main annoyance is I don't realize it's had an update until I go to turn it off. That's when I see the word "update" with the shut down or restart commands from the start menu power choice, and I know it's updated at some point while I've been using it.

Other than that I wouldn't even know it updated, it does give a choice of when to restart, usually at 3:30am, I could defer the restart until that time if I wanted.

Sorry, I don't have a fix, or even a workaround, but it's doing what it's supposed to do, whenever there's an update available it will generate a pop up if you've set it to notify. Once you've updated there's the possibility that one or more of those updates, once installed, will generate another update(s). Then the pop up will come up notifying you, which is exactly how you have it set.

The only fix I know of to stop the "notify" pop up is to set updates to "Automatic"

Maybe somebody else will come along with a better answer that will get closer to what you want, you've set it to notify you of updates, but the notification message ends up being an annoyance.

There's quite a bit of knowledge on tenforums, if it can be worked around or maybe a reg hack somebody will know. Be patient and see what other replies might offer.

killaz916, saw this post from TairikuOkami in this thread. regarding updates You might be able to get things set how you want doing this.

TairikuOkami said:

Home version has no option to choose. The best way is to set your network as metered, that will prevent Windows from downloading updates automatically. Then you can use Windows Update MiniTool to download and install, what you want.

I've never had that one before, sure its not a setting tweak? I see the new windows update is Aug 2nd release.

i used the group policy manager - “Configure Automatic Updates” setting set to 2, notify but don't download or install. it only used to do this...



Thats the action Center notification, never alt tabbing, only the noise, and a left over highlited icon, unless ofcourse im not in a app, ill see it. BUT in post 1, out of no where, i get that annoying thing, im on Build 1151 if that helps.

The version (non-insider) right now for W10 is 10586.420 1511.

Your replies are just repeating what the problem is, please try one of the suggestions given to you. There's no misunderstanding of the issue, and I can see how it would be very annoying to have that update window pop up when you're in the middle of something. But regardless of what it used to do, now it's doing something different, it would appear something different needs to be tried to get the end result you're wanting, no more windows update pop up message.

Please see the thread regarding updates from my post #5, try this solution from that post. This would seem to take care of the update pop up window issue.

TairikuOkami said:

Home version has no option to choose. The best way is to set your network as metered, that will prevent Windows from downloading updates automatically. Then you can use Windows Update MiniTool to download and install, what you want.