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Old 15-07-2018, 08:05 PM
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Win10 prevent update shutdown trick.

<Greetings Programs>,

Travelling on a work trip recently, a bought a PC mag to pass the time. This little snippet may help some people currently suffering from the "Win10 restarting when it wants to (for updates)" issue.

I hope this helps somebody, in some way.
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Old 15-07-2018, 08:46 PM
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I have done another trick:

Make a scheduled task which kills the updater and stops the windows update service. Run this task every five minutes.

I have a script, but it is on my office computer.
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Old 15-07-2018, 08:49 PM
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Hi Andy,

As long as it works your going to make a lot of astrophotographers extremely happy including me. I’m just about to splash out and buy a new laptop with windows 10 Pro

Thanks for posting this article
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Old 16-07-2018, 09:30 AM
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Old 16-07-2018, 09:22 PM
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This script should be run (e.g. [path]/killupdate.bat


taskkill /f /im setupprep.exe
taskkill /f /im Windows10UpgraderApp.exe
net stop wuauserv



Run it in a scheduled task every five minutes.


If you do want an incidental update, disable this scheduled task, type 'update' in the search field and run the update. When finished (usually after a reboot), you can enable this killer again.
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Old 12-11-2018, 05:28 PM
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I found that in Wi-Fi if you switch to a metered connection, the evil update
leaves you alone because it "thinks" you have a limited download allowance.
Not my idea, got it from Google, but it seems to be effective.
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