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How to prevent downloads of Windows Updates during active hours

My laptop spontaneously and without my permission downloaded a Windows Update while I was playing an online game. Needless to say, everyone was killed. I see how to prevent restarting during the hours specified as "active", but how to prevent it from doing downloads in the background and using all my bandwidth?
Hello. I'm Rey, a Community Expert willing to help the users.

Please check the below link to stop automatic updates in Windows 10:

https://www-windowscentral-com.cdn.ampproject.o...

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Hi Holly,

I don’t believe there is a great solution for this. I do have a work around however...

Click start, and type “services.msc” and open it up.

Find “Windows Update” and double click it. Windows Update Properties will open, and you can change it to “Disable” - click apply, and close out of services. If you put your PC to sleep, you’ll be fine. Once you reboot, the update service will restart.

Again, this isn’t perfect, but it you’re getting ready to battle, turning this off before hand will prevent your OS from sucking bandwidth for updates.

Hope this helps!
- C

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Hit the Win key, type services, View local services, scroll down to Windows Update, double click on it,

In the middle change Startup type to Manual.  Click on OK.  Get out of Local services.

You need to go Settings, Updates, Check for updates every day when you are not busy where you can get the Windows Defender definitions and at the end of the day so you can get the updates.

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