Windows 10?

[sparky10]

Eventually within 21H2 and other updates Sillysoft have fixed the shared printing issue they created.

[seany65]

Originally Posted by Oswald

Cheers for all your advice.

As a temporary measure I have paused Windows updates for 35 days. Apparently this can only happened once, but somehow I managed to do this for a second time.

The ultimate option would be to permanently turn off all Windows updates.

This can be done in windows 10 pro. I did it the other day, or rather I did what the info said to do but I'll have to wait until after 28/5/24 to be sure, as that was the date at which the delay setting had been set to before I disabled auto updates. I believe the info (or a link to it) was in this thread but I can't remember what page it was on.

This is what I did:


How to disable automatic updates using Group Policy

On Windows 10 Pro, the Local Group Policy Editor includes policies to permanently disable automatic updates or change the update settings to choose when patches should be installed on the device.

Disable Windows 10 updates

To disable automatic updates on Windows 10 permanently, use these steps:

Open Start.

Search for gpedit.msc and click the top result to launch the Local Group Policy Editor.

Navigate to the following path: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update

Double-click the "Configure Automatic Updates" policy on the right side.

Configure Automatic Updates policy

Check the Disabled option to turn off automatic Windows 10 updates permanently.

Click the Apply button.

Click the OK button.

After you complete the steps, Windows 10 will stop downloading updates automatically. However, the ability to check for updates manually will continue to be available on

Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update, and clicking the Check for updates button to download the most recent patches as needed.


Credit to the poster if the link.