How do you turn off windows 10 updates which are really powerful?

Aldy Winata 35

currently using windows 10 and because it is affected by windows updates, a confirmation always appears to switch to windows 11.

My device is not strong enough to use windows 11.

I've searched the internet but after a while windows update is active again, so I want to completely turn off windows update

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Alex Voicu 0 Reputation points

2024-01-06T15:08:25.53+00:00

I have the same problem.

I recently installed the latest Windows 10 and I wanted to be up-to-date, but I found out that after installing an „update” for the wi-fi driver, my home network is not visible anymore (other wi-fi networks are visibile), and I have to restore the previous version to fix the problem.

Has anyone had this kind of problem?
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Rick Nau 20 Reputation points

2024-02-21T18:18:54.8433333+00:00

Erland Sommarskog - Being a douche doesnt help either.
Oak Leaves 0 Reputation points

2024-03-28T10:38:00.8833333+00:00

its really a waste of cellular data and time, they arent paying for my wifi nor my computer. i just wanna Use the Network to Cast My screen. (also it make more laggier)
Staab, Langdon 0 Reputation points

2024-04-03T23:53:15.6733333+00:00

Just use Linux or something.

Only use Windows if you need to run a Windows-only app or something.

Avoid it otherwise.
christopher hauck 5 Reputation points

2024-05-28T20:04:43.4133333+00:00

why are we even having this discussion, my computer is mine, microsoft literally has 0 rights to reboot outside of when I manually say to do so
I am a tech enthusiast, but not a corporation capable of paying for features intended to be locked behind a "pro" license
this means as a gamer I have one machine that absolutely MUST run 24/7 unless a 100% MANUAL reboot is authorized(due to having to babysit AU, due to the occasional broken update destroying the MBR, it happened at least once to me)
so why is there not a simple "do not ever automatically restart for any reason, I must decide when directly every single time" option?
sorry but I did actually update older windows(at least windows 7, when I ran xp I did not have internet to even allow automatic downloads while not online due to dial-up being the norm for me(no broadband cable providers existed at the time) so I am the case of "I decide when and if to update/restart, not someone who didn't pay money to build a computer"

this is not a question, this is a simple demand that microsoft will fulfill or be destroyed by class action lawsuits, these completely unjustified forced automatic reboots and driver changes have actually damaged the productivity of businesses and even students(who should never have had any issues)
this is not even a "do it while I am asleep" thing, because laptops exist, devices with finite runtime often turned on for minutes and shut down/hibernated and only updated manually because you need to be 100% sure you won't need to unplug anytime soon(updates should never run on battery, for any reason)
this is just a company deciding(wrongly we all agree) that they have any say in when the actual users reboot(they actually have no legal right to force reboots)

fix it now, and for all previous currently supported builds of windows, or leave the door open to the inevitable consequences
it will either be >50% of all current windows users suing you for lost time, or it will be a complete decimation in your market share to a linux+wine solution(because people will not tolerate your bullying for long)
I dabbled in linux for a bit, though I only tried a single build that was intended to mimic windows and had driver issues as a result, but I am actually on the verge of going full ubuntu, just to delete forced non-kernel update reboots as even something to consider as possible
the pain of my 0% downtime devices going down for hours/days when I am not able to fix them due to physical proximity is like months of systematic torture compared to the mild ramen water burn of learning an os that is not at all under microsoft control
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Pete 5 Reputation points

2024-03-14T13:55:26.2233333+00:00

You really have to wonder why the tight controls on Windows updates, and the strong wording of the warnings; "Required updates need to be downloaded." Microsoft "forgets" whose computer it is and who decides when and if for the updates.

Then there's the maximum of 18 hours in setting the "active hours". This leaves 6 hours for updates! Why does Microsoft need a minimum 6 hour window to install updates??? It never comes anywhere near taking that long for updates unless they trash your installation which happens. This limitation of active hours is simply ridiculous. A thinking person must wonder, what else does Microsoft want to do to your PC during those 6 hours besides install updates ALREADY downloaded?

Then there's the Windows Updates settings with no place for the average user to turn the updates off. Where's the Disable Automatic Updates button? It's MY computer!

People with a little more knowledge can search the Internet for those special ways to disable updates, but one day you find out they are enabled again without your knowledge when hours or DAYS of work are gone after an automatic reboot! This is much worse than maddening.

Why are there so many, frequent, and constant "critical" updates anyway? What kind of OS quality is this that needs so many updates all the time??? What else are these updates doing? With the current climate in the government, one MUST wonder.

Perhaps the next update should be a different operating system.
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Matthias L 5 Reputation points

2024-04-03T15:57:15.64+00:00

Couldn't agree more.

christopher hauck 5 Reputation points

2024-05-28T20:34:44.2266667+00:00

yes it is called linux, the OS that doesn't pretend that software installation means they can now claim ownership of the hardware

and with the near perfection of wine and other "linuxdows" translation systems there is only familiarity left holding the windows market cap, and with the sheer "f you" microsoft is pushing with these pointlessly frequent, pointlessly disruptive, pointlessly time-limited, updates+reboots

linux posts a kernel patch maybe once a month, and 99% of users on linux never got hacked, even with insecure settings, because the vulnerabilities are few, and they are the only patches that actually get pushed hard
the rest of linux updates don't even require a logoff, because the services that are updated are not tied to the kernel being stopped

in fact the only time you see an issue is when it says "updates are ready to be applied, though these services are in-use and this program will need to be restarted to apply them" but it lets you say "remind me later" or "don't show this again" and it will simply wait until you either reboot or close any programs dependant on those services, quietly waiting for teh right moment to apply the update when it will have literally 0% disruption to your life

why does dotnet need to be patched in the next 5 minutes? if a hacker is that close to hacking through that flaw then I have royally messed up pissing off hackers that much
and why does my kernel need to stop to apply an AV database addition? literally all databases can be updated while being actively read without disruption to the other read entries, there is literally no reason to stop the kernel to update an antivirus library database
plus AV scans do not run 24/7 and should not, they are there to scan for new files that might have been infected, old files that have been edited when not expected, or to catch suspicious activity in a program that starts running
there is no reason to be constantly re-reading a file that has not been modified in weeks, at worst scan it once a week and put down a simple hash in a table to detect edits that can trigger a full scan of the file instead of the faster and more useful checksum

actually that has always confused me with periodic virus scanners, can't we have a table of simple CRC checks of critical windows files that if they match you simply don't scan except during a bi-annual megascan or something?
it should not be that hard to make it so windows defender doesn't consume 100% of a full core when trying to play a copy of fallout 4 modded through MO2, because teh same files it has already scanned(in the staging folder) should have the same checksums and structure as what gets dumped into the game folder, and so it should realize it is just a new directory junction and skip scanning
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Steven parsons 5 Reputation points

2024-05-16T03:23:47.1866667+00:00
What a minute. What happen to waiting for the user to select one of the following:

Shut down Restart Install Updates and Shut down Install Updates and Restart

I use to get these 4 choices after updates were automatically downloaded to my Windows 10 machine. I didn't mind the machine automatically downloading updates, but I always wanted it to wait for me to decide whether to proceed with the install. This would give me a chance to review https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/windows/release-health/ before installing. But today, while the machine was downloading updates, I ran some errands, and when I got back several hours later, I discovered that Windows not only finished downloading the updates, but went ahead and installed them as well. Not cool.
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christopher hauck 5 Reputation points

2024-05-28T20:16:53.51+00:00

yes, windows 7 was perfect, it did the downlods and even sometimes the installing automatically, but it let you have your legally protected right to choose when that ACPI system reset your processor, and not microsoft inc
why did they ever change that system? it worked perfectly and for anyone who wasn't updating there was no way to ever get them to update
the default was still "install and reboot at this time" (which was set to local night time based on time zone settings that were always correct due to connectivity requirements) but it let you decide if you needed 100% uptime(sadly it still had the exact same non-kernel reboots, but microsoft is just too stupid to realize people delayed updates because they were unfamiliar how to manually restart ONLY affected services)
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Matthias L 5 Reputation points

2024-04-03T15:56:14.5066667+00:00

Use Linux instead. Microsoft does not want you to own your computer. Your Windows 10 computer owns you.
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Fletcher Shires 0 Reputation points

2024-05-18T01:01:15.97+00:00

no fix works anymore; I'm defintely goin to look at linux at this point.
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Matthias L 5 Reputation points

2024-05-18T15:56:35.5833333+00:00

Seems like a good decision. In the meantime, in case you are dependent on Windows for other reasons, you may try this script, which closes the Windows Update service periodically. Worked for me, but needs to run in the background at all times.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/78315014/2738240
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