Windows 10: How to prevent Win 10 1809 from trying to download and initiate an update of the OS

Looking for advice please.


I have a laptop currently running Version 1809 OS Build 17763.10390

And, for my purposes it works perfectly.

However, the laptop is always telling me I need to update to a newer version of Win 10.

I would be glad to except ..........


My laptop has a 32 Gb hard drive.

And try as I may to free up space, it is simply not in the cards.

Everything I run is via a browser.

So I don't really have enough of the suggested objects that might be deleted to make a difference.

Even when trying to use external storage along with no page file at all, the upgrade still wants 8 Gb of free space on my C drive.


I understand the real solution to my space issue is a larger hard drive.

But for now, that isn't in the cards either.


This laptop has wireless connectivity to the Internet.


I have heard that setting the WiFi connection to "metered", might help with delaying of stopping updates altogether.

Or, would more need to be done ?


Thanks in advance for thoughts or suggestions.

:)

 

Update Windows 10 to 1809 manually

It's been a while after Microsoft released an update to fix issues in the initial Windows 10 1809 update. But the page where we can download the updates as standalone packages still has a hole instead of download link to the 1809.17763.1 version package:





Windows 10 Update Assistant page is useless as well, since it offers to download April 2018 Update, lol.

So, I can't update my 1803.17134.376 to 1809 even after more than a month since it's initially was released.

(Of course, "drastically improved" Windows Update doesn't suggest the 1809 update, too. Actually, it has been never working on this Win 10 copy, so I used to download all the updates manually via the first link in this post.)

Has anybody figured out a way of how to manually update from 1803 to 1809?

Without hardcore stuff, please, like making bootable media which potentially would have a great chance of destroying the currently installed Win 10 copy

UPDATE: I was completely confused by that "Microsoft recommends" wording near the 1809 update on that page and some top articles in Google saying that it was released and ready for production with that quick patch. So, this question is from this confusion.

Thanks to comments below and @music2myear answer, it's clear now that 1809 is still not released. So, there is no point in update attempts (at least for me) at the moment.

 

Problem with Windows update -2018-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4056892)

I completed all of the troubleshooting steps listed the "article" that you provided with ZERO success. I completed all of the suggestions offered by others (thank you for trying to help) with no success. I finally bit the bullet and contacted Microsoft
online help. They agreed to a telephone and remote session during which the Microsoft tech repeated all of the troubleshooting steps that Dell Technical Support unsuccessfully tried and all of the steps listed in the "article", including a few additional
steps, with the same unsuccessful results. The Microsoft tech then downloaded an OS 1709 iso that had all of the updates up to KB4056892. The OS was successfully installed with no impact to any of my other installed programs, following which I successfully
installed the previously failed update as well as one other. The whole troubleshooting process with the Microsoft Tech (including initializing the Win 10 iso download) took about 2 hours, plus about an additional hour to install the Win 10 iso that was initialized
by the Microsoft Tech.

 

Problem with Windows update -2018-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4056892)

sorry haven't completed all the steps yet but wasn't sure to let you know as soon as I get to good results