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Question

Windows 10 Automatic Updates

Oct 3, 2015 4:55PM PDT

How to prevent Windows 10 from automatically downloading updates? Would prefer to choose when.

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If you're on win 10 home...
Oct 3, 2015 4:59PM PDT

,,, you have no choice. If on win Pro and above you have the choice.
Dafydd.

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You might want to move up to the Pro version.
Oct 3, 2015 5:14PM PDT

Yes there web articles about blocking updates but so far, so good here.