How to disable Windows updates in Windows 10 Pro

Open the services app and disable the windows update service.

Then Right Click and Get the Properties of the Windows Update Service and change the startup type to Disabled.  Then apply the changes and hit ok.

Now we are going to add a registry entries to disable the Windows Update Medic Service 

Open the Registry Editor

Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc"

Modify the "Start" DWORD Entry and change it's value to 4

This will disable the Windows Update Medic Service

Next we will go to

 "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows"

Right click on the Windows folder and select new Key

1. Name the new key WindowsUpdate and press Enter.

Now make another new Key under WindowsUpdate call it AU

Right-click the AU key, select the New, and choose the DWORD (32-bit) Value option.

1. Name the new key NoAutoUpdate and press Enter.

1. Double-click the NoAutoUpdate key and change its value from 0 to 1.

Now go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows"

Right-click the Windows (folder) key, select New and choose the Key option. Name the new key WindowsUpdate and press Enter.

Right-click the newly created key, select the New submenu, and choose Key and name the new key AU and press Enter

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Right-click the AU key, select New and select the DWORD (32-bit) Value and name the new key AUOptions.

Double-click an AUOptions and change the value to 2:

The following are the different value for AUOptions

• 2 — Notify for download and auto install.
• 3 — Auto download and notify for install.
• 4 — Auto download and schedule the install.
• 5 — Allow local admin to choose settings.
• 7 — Auto Download, Notify to install, Notify to Restart.

• These options are the same as the Group Policy settings, and option 2 is the closest to disable Windows Update permanently.

Now your computer will not be able to update Windows.

You can leave it here but below are entries you can make to your local group policy.

Go to "Computer Configuration -> Windows Components -> Windows Update" Open "Configure Automatic Updates"

Change the setting to "Disabled" and apply the setting then hit ok.

Next we will edit the "Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation"

Set the setting to Disabled.  Apply the setting and hit ok.  

Please note that if you edit the "Configure Automatic Updates" setting and change it to "Disabled" this setting should have NO effect.

That is it your system should no longer receive windows updates. I will be posting a script to apply this shortly. In the mean time I have also produced a video if you want to see the full process https://youtu.be/Iyx1jkMZYKY

Disable windows server automatic updates

Automatic updates can be a huge bane for IT Administrators, especially if it is a server you have to have up and you don't have any scale to keep the service up while your reboot servers.  I have some specific server I have to manage that get rebooted at specific times but there are some services that have to shutdown manually or the software on the server gets very cranky.  To that end here is how you go about disabling windows update by changing Windows Update to manual.  By default Automatic updates are automatically configured as shown below.

There are two snapins we are going to work with SCONFIG and GPEdit an we are going to change all the windows updates to manual.  Type the command SCONFIG in run, powershell, or cmd 

1 – SCONFIG

1. Open a CMD PROMPT as an Administrator
2. Type SCONFIG and press ENTER
3. Type 5 and press ENTER
4. Type M for Manual (or D for Download Only) and press ENTER

When the computer is finished you will get a prompt saying updates are sent to manual.

GROUP POLICY

1. Click START and type GPEDIT.MSC and press ENTER (or open the GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT CONSOLE and open an existing GPO or start a new one)
2. Expand COMPUTER CONFIGURATION > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > WINDOWS COMPONENTS > WINDOWS UPDATE
3. Double click on CONFIGURE AUTOMATIC UPDATES
4. Select either DISABLED (equivalent to MANUAL) or ENABLED and select what you would like from the drop down list
   

Then hit apply and ok.

1. Now Double-click "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic  updates Installation”
   
   

   
   
   Select the Enabled option and click “Apply.”

2. Then enable the Turn off auto-restart for updates during active hours
   

   

   
   

   That's it.  If you go into your windows update, you should now see the updates are paused.
   
   
   That's it Windows updates should be now disabled.
   
   You can view the YouTube video here.  https://youtu.be/vQ4fBBlbTdA
   

   
   

   
   
   
   

Where have all the Adobe Updates Gone?

Adobe Creative Suite Patches

For anyone not on creative cloud and are holding on to their old Adobe Creative Suite versions for dear life, having the original disks or images of the disks are fine but there are updates that are helpful for making the programs more stable.  To that end and until Adobe takes these links down you can get your software updates for your old creative suite programs from these two links.



Mac Adobe CS Updates
https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=39&platform=mac

Windows Adobe CS Updates
https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=39&platform=windows