How to Configure Windows Updates Using Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) With Windows 10, Microsoft removed various options that helped the users control the behaviour of how the updates were delivered to Windows computers. One of them was to the ability to be notified whenever an update was available and …

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Disable Automatic Hardware Driver Updates in Windows 10 The Driver updates don’t come as often as other types of updates such as operating system feature updates, quality updates, security updates, or application software updates. In case of Device drivers, the same version that came with your PC can be used …

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Pause or Temporarily Stop Receiving Windows Updates Using GPEDIT.MSC Updates are important but sometimes they break things, therefore, it becomes important to defer them, at least for some time. Updates have dependencies; when you update, various software and apps have to be reconfigured, drivers lose their settings, possible compatibility issues, …

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Enable or Disable the Downloading of Automatic Updates over a Metered Connection in Windows Windows 10 has a great networking-related feature called Metered Connection that lets you set a connection as metered. Once you set a connection as metered, Windows will only download small and important updates such as security …

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Set Active Hours to Stop Windows Update from Automatically Restarting Your PC Most people don’t realize that updates provide another layer of protection to your computer against malware and other types of threats. An up-to-date computer is less vulnerable to malware attacks than an out-of-date one. Let’s take the example …

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Use Services utility to Stop (or Restart) the Windows Update Service Windows Update is an essential part of keeping the Windows performance optimized with latest feature updates, and your Windows PC secure from online and offline threats via the security updates. However, there could be a variety of reasons for …

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