Stopping W10 background updates

[rmnc3r]

My PC really bogs down when Windows 10 is doing background updates.

I went to Settings > Update and Security > Pause Updates

But there seems to be more settings I could monkey with to stop updates entirely until I choose to do so

Google search yields too many confusing Tuts.

What (other) settings do I change? Something in Update and Security > Delivery Optimization? Elsewhere??

[billofrights]

Just run them manually once a week. If there are that many that it's slowing you down, you're far behind on updates or your machine is due for upgrade/ replacement.

[rmnc3r]

Just run them manually once a week. If there are that many that it's slowing you down, you're far behind on updates or your machine is due for upgrade/ replacement.

Thanks, but see the OP; W Updates paused, but it seems something is still going on in the background. On W7 one can suspend updates entirely and choose to update at will. Not so for W10 it seems. I'm looking for a complete suspension setting.

[musick]

There's a guy on youtube, not sure of the spelling, but it's close to "barnaclease nerdgasam", who has a step by step video on w10 update configuration that shows you how to do it. Downside is certain critical updates which can't be stopped will revert those settings to the default, so you have to monitor them. That was the final straw for me and all my machines now run some flavor of Linux. Good luck.

[Dragunov]

Easy to do. I wrote a post showing how to do this last year, if you can find it.

[Preston-CLB]

Take a look at the apps that run at startup and run in the background. Disable all but your anti-virus and anti-malware apps. I did this long ago and it makes a difference in performance.

Many of those apps can be run manually when needed.
-P

[rmnc3r]

Easy to do. I wrote a post showing how to do this last year, if you can find it.

1902 posts - can you narrow it down a bit? Is it one you started or one you replied to?

[rmnc3r]

Take a look at the apps that run at startup and run in the background. Disable all but your anti-virus and anti-malware apps. I did this long ago and it makes a difference in performance.

Many of those apps can be run manually when needed.
-P

Yeah, been doing that almost forever...