How to Monitor, Limit, and Restrict Data Usage in Windows 10

Learn How to Monitor or View the Data/Bandwidth Usage, Limit the Data Usage, and the Restrict or Disable the Background Data in Windows Windows lets its users perform three network management things – monitoring data usage, setting data limits, and restricting background data, through its Data usage section. Under the …

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Disable, Stop, Re-Start Windows Update Service Using Services

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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How to Disable Automatic Driver Updates in Windows 10

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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Set Active Hours to Stop Windows Update Automatic Restarts

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 An up-to-date computer is less vulnerable to malware attacks than an out-of-date one.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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Pause/Defer Windows 10 Updates Using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)

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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Allow Automatic Updates over Metered Connection in Windows 10

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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