Windows 10: Turn off windows updates?

How can I turn off windows updates?
The new windows update settings page is extremely basic and appears to lack many options from windows 7.
I am concerned about updates downloading and update checks being performed whilst gaming. I would not be happy with bandwidth or system resources being used up during my play sessions as performance may be impacted.
Is there any way to either disable the updates or to ensure update checks and downloads are only performed at specific times?

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5800 - Screen turn off is a turn off...

...I've got a feeling that this works on WI FI from t-mobile but NOT with 3g



(I've NOT got wifi - so I'm not 100% sure)...

 

5800 - Screen turn off is a turn off...

....Using Skyfire I can get Catchup TV and BBC iPlayer BUT when viewing - how do you stop the Nokia 5800 screen from turning off every minute (max setting 60 seconds)...Most annoying having to keep operating the screen on/off button to bring it back on
again...

 

don't know any way of turning of MS OS updates.....you can schedule the restart, so it doesn't restart while you are working on the PC.....using god mode ( search this forum for instructions) you can disable driver updating.....the only other way of disabling MS OS updates, as far as I am aware is to,use WIFI NOT an Ethernet cable, then in internet settings in settings you can tell windows you are on a metered connection and it is meant to disable MS updates as it would cost you, being on a ' metered' connection.....seemed to work with mine, but WIFI too slow so went back to Ethernet connection and just disabled driver updates in god mode.....

 

Run this as admin via CMD and updates will only download, when you click on Check for updates:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" /v "NoAutoUpdate" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

 

Hi
thats handy to know....will use this myself, thanks

 

In addition: *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html

 

Well for most users, it is best to set it to Notify, so Windows will check for updates, but not download.

reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" /v "AUOptions" /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

 

but apart from the metered connection option ( using WIFI only) the others I assume do not work in Windows 10 Home, is this correct...?

 

Ok thanks!

That should be just what I needed.

 

Only OPTION ONE and OPTION TWO wouldn't work in the Home edition. The others will. *Smile

 

Is there command which displays available updates, but let me choose which to download and install, like one of the update options in Windows 8.1?

 

When you use the option Notify, you can use MS tool to decide, which drivers/updates, you do not want.
It applies only to available updates ready to be downloaded. If there are none, you will see nothing.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

If you have set up "NoAutoUpdate" to 1, you need to change it back to 0 for "AUOptions" to work.

 

I have 4G connection in one of my Computers and that is the only connection it will ever use. Is there a way to force Windows Update to download and install updates automatically? I have set the connection as not-metered but still I always need to press the "Download" button in Windows Update for it to start doing the update. Thanks.

 

once check for updates is done, does the registry hack need to be re entered each time