Windows 10: Preventing Auto Updates

I'm having startup issues with a Windows 10 Build:
Cumulative update for Windows 10 ver. 1511
KB3192444. (I hope I copied it correctly).

Before this update is installed the problem doesn't exist, after it's installed it does.
I posted this issue here but have not gotten any help.
Because windows 10 automatically installs updates I needed to go into Group Policy Editor-Computer Configuration-Windows Components-Windows Update and set it to
"Notify for download and notify for install"

But, when I go back into settings for windows update advanced settings, the choose how updates are installed has remained with the same 2 options.

How can I be sure that Windows 10 does not install this update????
Does changing this setting in GPE work ok?

Any help will be appreciated,
James

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Preventing Auto Updates

Don't bother: I am no longer monitoring this thread.

 

Preventing Auto Updates

Instead of playing 20 Questions with the Bear:

You might not be aware but in Windows 10, updates are mandatory. In the Home Edition you have no control at all over updates. In the Pro version you can delay updates for short time, but you cannot avoid them.

In addition, in Windows 10 updates are cumulative. So while it's possible to uninstall an update, it will eventually come back.

None of this is a secret; Microsoft published this long before Windows 10 was released.

This is a community forum. It's not Microsoft support. You are writing to other Windows 10 users, who may or may not know the answer to your question.

Here's something else that you don't want to hear: There are currently over 400 million Windows 10 activations. You don't see 400 million complaints here, or even 200 million or even 1 million. Clearly, most people around the world have figured out how to
use Windows 10. Maybe they don't like how Windows 10 works (that would include me) but they have nevertheless learned how to use it correctly. You need to join that group, and the sooner the better, or you risk being left behind.

Here are some lessons that I learned the hard way (because I apparently can't learn any other way

1- An operating system will only run correctly - or at all - on supported hardware. If any of your hardware is not supported on Windows 10, don't waste your time.

2- Do a clean install. A clean install on supported hardware is a can't miss.

3- Once you have performed a lovely clean install, only install software applications that are supported on Windows 10.

4- Learn how to use Windows 10 the way it was designed to be used, and only use it that way. Trust me, software doesn't care about what we think, it works the way it was designed to work.

This is how I make Windows 10 sing arias on my 7-year old desktop that Dell abandoned long ago. It works, but you have to play along.

 

Hi, to hide (stop) a particular update see:
Windows Updates - Hide or Show in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

It's a lot to take in.
So, apparently using Group Policy Editor will work?
Hiding updates wil prevent them form being installed?

 

It depends what you want to do.

If you want to stop all updates
- Windows updates can be stopped altogether by various means from designating your internet connection (ethernet or Wifi) as metered to disabling the service), but then Defender updates will stop so if you use that you have to set up a scheduled task yourself.

- Windows apps are updated separately on a 4 hourly scheduled task.

If you find you don't want a particular update yo can use the link I provided and uninstall it. But you first have to have received it to hide it.

If you are concerned about unexpected restarts after updates, Winaero's Tweaker (free) includes an option to do that in addition to the limited protection offered by Windows Active Hours setting.

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