Win10 prevent update shutdown trick.

[AndyG]

<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.
Regards,
Andy.


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[skysurfer]

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.

[Startrek]

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

[speach]

Thanks

[skysurfer]

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.

[raymo]

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.
raymo