The Latest Windows Update Finally Lets You Put Off Future Updates

The Latest Windows Update Finally Lets You Put Off Future Updates

It doesn’t matter if you’re pumped for the Creators Update, the new version of Windows 10 that makes drawing all over you screen easier. Whether you like it or not, your Windows 10 device will be getting it. If you’re a part of Microsoft’s Insiders Program — a beta-like program that gives you builds of Windows 10 early — then you’ll already be on Creators Update. For the rest of us it will come, like a little surprise, over the coming months.

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And make no mistake, like death, Creators Update comes for us all. Every single Windows 10 machine will eventually be forcibly updated to Creators Update. But with that forced update comes something amazing: the ability to postpone all future updates. Well, for a time, anyway.

Microsoft instituted forced updates in Windows 10 computers for security reasons. Windows is just behind Android as the most used operating system in the world, and a lot of it’s users don’t understand, or care, about things like upgrading their computers to kill glaring security flaws. Forcing the update keeps the ignorant safe, while also protecting others from their possibly bot-infested porn machines.

But for many computer users stability is just as important as security, and Windows’ forced updates had a history of screwing up big projects and leaving savvier users annoyed.

Now, once Creators Update is live, You can go to Settings on your device, then Update & security, then Advanced options under Update Settings. Clicking the button under Pause Updates will pause any updates for 7 days.

The Latest Windows Update Finally Lets You Put Off Future Updates

That’s not the indefinite pause many of us would like, but it gives you at least a modicum of control back so you don’t have to worry about updates inexplicably happening when you’re processing video or crunching code or up at three in the morning try to finish a paper for school.


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