We have all been there, persistant windows updates.
Draining battery
Device life
Unable to use the system while updating
and sometimes adding few more bugs crashing the systems
While updates are crucial for any software, too many updates for a device can degrade the system's sources due to cache and app data accumulation.
All these can be frustrated few times especially when we have tight deadlines for project deliverables while working remotely.
Recently, Microsoft have added an option to pause updates but not to stop them.
But lets see how to stop them from the backend.
1. Press Win+R which opens a run command window.
2. Enter Services.msc to navigate to all the system processes.
3. In the long list of sys processes, look for Windows update service & navigate to Properties.
4. In the properties, Change the startup type to Manual so that you(user) can choose to install updates when you wanted to.
Caution : With more and more zero-day attacks, it is not safe to pause updates. Please do this only in virtualized environments.
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