How to disable automatic update in Windows 10
Yes, that’s right, you can disable automatic update in Windows 10. Stay with us in this article to easily learn how to disable automatic update in Windows 10.
Windows 10 is the latest operating system from Microsoft for personal computers. Officially unveiled in 2014 it introduced the idea of rolling updates to the operating system.
Microsoft has dominated the personal computer operating system for decades and its latest version, Windows 10, looks likely to carry on this market control.
Windows 10 was released to consumers on the 29th of July 2015 as the successor to Windows 9. This latest version of the Windows operating system introduced what the company called “universal apps”, apps that are developed to work on smartphones, personal computers, video game consoles, and HoloLens.
This universality is possible thanks to a universal app API that Microsoft first introduced in Windows 8.1. Windows 10 introduced Universal Windows Platform for the development of these universal apps. Apps that are able to take advantage of this are developed with Visual Studio 2015.
As part of Microsoft’s updated OS, it introduced a system of rolling updates to features and functionality. The idea is to continuously improve the system with small updates, reducing the amount of disruption created by larger updates.
Windows 10 updates are downloaded quietly and installed on your computer. Some users are unhappy with this issue and it can even be a problem for some programs installed on their operating system. Sometimes the updates themselves have bugs that create bad experiences for the user.
In Windows , there are several ways to do this. Here we stop the update in Windows by disabling the Windows Update service in the services section.
First, open the Run window. In this window, type services.msc and click OK.
Look for Windows Update in the services window that opens for you. Find it and double click on it.
In the opened window, in the General tab, find the Startup Type section and set it to Disabled. Then click on the Stop button in the Service Status section.
When you want to reactivate the update, start the service and set its status to Automatic.
