How to Disable Windows Update on Windows 10 Permanently 

how absurd is it we have to even do this...

It is thanks to such tutorials on how to stop the forced useless updates that my laptop is 6 years old, and still going strong. You guys publishing these videos are true heroes. Keep up the fantastic work!

The moment there is a viable alternative to Windows on the market I'm switching to it!

windows 10 is downlading 10 GB updates everyday and then it says" update is unsucessfull we will download again"... this is the biggest virus computer history. enough

Wow, I thought I had disabled Updates, I didn't realize that there was so much more. Thanks for the info. You're videos are the best help videos I've found. You explain each step of the way in simple terms. Thank you.

Imagine doing all this... and you power on your pc the next day only to be greeted by a blue screen saying..."Please wait....your windows is updating"

This is exactly what I was looking for. Here's my story: I kept clicking "remind me in an hour" for the update notifications, because I didn't want to update it when I was doing homework. Over an hour later, I hear my PC beeping. I check - Windows 10 is rebooting. WTH. Then I wait a second, and it turns out, it's preparing the Creators Update. Then it tries to install it. The installation screen had awful resolution, even though Windows already knows I use a 1050p monitor. Then I wait for the system to finish. But guess what? After half an hour with just 8% done, the system just says "I give up!" and it restores my old session in my previous version of Windows. That is just asinine. I know my PC was old, still having the Vista Home Premium Identification code, but the hardware has been upgraded specifically to meet W10's demands! The worst part, I couldn't find a way to disable it altogether without installing third party software, because Windows didn't present me an option to disable updates. Seriously. That's why I needed this video. Either it's going to work, or I'm downgrading to Windows 7. Even if Microsoft ditches updates for SP2 or whatever in 2022, I'm still not upgrading. Windows 10 is a disaster. EDIT: 1050p, not 1080p. Also, Home Premium, not Ultimate Also, years later I ended up not downgrading. :\ If I am to change the OS now, I'll go for Linux

I consider anything that forces my computer to do something that I don't want it to do as malware. Windows is behaving like malware restarting itself without my permission.

"Windows Updates are essential to keeping your computer running smoothly" suuuuure.................. both my laptops no longer have working brightness control windows update keeps my pc running as smooth as a corral reef...... not to mention the driver updates that break everything

THANK YOU!!! So tired of having to roll back to the previous version because the newest version of Windows 10 completely messes up my computer's awesome sound. The newest version makes it sound like everything is playing through a tin can. Absolutely no bass at all. Every tech support rep I've had try to trouble shoot this problem comes up empty handed and ends up just rolling back to the previous version of Windows 10, which solves the problem immediately. Thanks to you, I won't have to go through that hell again.

THANK YOU! Windows updates are the worst virus a computer can possibly get, and until now I've been forced to get them over and over.

THANK YOU. I absolutely love this video! This is the best complete disable. I have never ever used windows update in my life and everything worked fine. All I had to do was regular driver updates and clean up.

And if all that doesn't work, turn off wi-fi and remove any Ethernet cables. Job done. Lol.

Just want to thank you for making this video. I've gone through months of updates, downdates, and multiple programs and Microsoft help people, and NONE of them helped as much as you did!

The new update disabled my Wi-Fi. I can't even enable it back on. I did a system restore to get the Wi-Fi back. Your video is very helpful. Thank you.

Greetings to you as well Britec. I lost a full days work in three different Graphic Design programs, about 12 different pallets, that I was working on at the time. Went to have lunch and when I came back, everything lost forever. Now I have to start over! Getting used to it, but still sick and tired! I performed every one of your workarounds just to make it stick!!! Keep in mind people, ALWAYS, make sure you have a Very Good and Dependable security software program installed on your computer, if you do these things. You should always have good security monitoring either way.

The annoy part is when your trying to do homework and the dang update takes up your data

Good presentation with nicely paced voice tempo. So much so, the Presenter even mentions meticulous details of using Capitals in files naming.

This was a LIFESAVER. You're my new hero. Should never have gone to Windows 10. Beware of anything Microsoft gives you for "free", folks. Thanks Brian for all of your wonderful succinct videos.

Man that was a great fight with win 10.. this fight is legendary

Two years ago I started using Windows 10. Thought to myself, "Finally". Then watching a movie right in the middle of it, and installed updates, then after 20 minutes it started playing movie again. Installed Windows 7 and forgot it. Then last year started reading how to stop the spyware and delay updates. So I did all the setting, and worked fine, until...Got delayed updates two weeks ago, and here we go again. Every update brakes my Dell laser printer drivers. Chrome became almost unusable, had to reinstall. So I thought a reinstall was due. Reinstalled it, and it took me straight to microsoft saying my version of Windows 10 was out of date. Installed update and nothing works as before. I am so, so I'm sick of it, I just installed Windows Vista Ultimate, and can not believe how fast my machine is! If I have to disconnect from the internet I'm done with forced updates, and legal spyware, and legal junk ware!

When I opened up my new Win10 laptop straight out of the box, it immediately started Windows updates. It started at 1345 and took 1 hour to download. From 1445 until 1830 it was installing the updates at a snails pace On restart it fell back into the Recovery Mode, as it wouldn`t boot to Windows, So using Recovery mode I eventually got it back running, not forgetting to disable Wi-Fi to stop this updating all over again. On that day the data usage recorded was 8.2Gb Glad I found this very helpful video - brilliant Windows updates are a curse !

In version 1803, no matter how you try to disable windows update, ( even disable the update orchestrator task scheduler, services or group policy ), it still re enabling after pc reboot or turn on pc. Note: update orchestrator services ( Usosvc ) no longer can be disabled anymore.

Every now and then i come back to this video, and always end up with a nice feeling of success !. Thanks again !

THANK YOU! You were very thorough and clear. I appreciate it. I'm so glad I am not the only one outraged by the constant Windows 10 updates. I don't know why Microsoft won't change this. But it's good to know that there are other people out there who really enjoy Windows 7 like I do.

Oh my God.. My pc start running away after I applied all these settings.. Thanks so much mate.. You were amazing ❤️

They use "Windows 10 Update Facilitation Service (osrss)" now. And it has the highest authorization that even administrators accounts cannot override. Win10 itself just acting like malware now.

I have to watch this video everytime I install windows on a computer, thanks a lot my friend, you have helped quite a lot these years

window 10 is the worst window ever

THANK U. Just did this. A Win 10 update overnight stopped our printers working. Roll Back and now OK, and no more updates.

No matter what method you use to keep it from updating, it will find a way to turn itself on. You need to check these settings every week and turn them off, you'll find that Windows Update turns itself on in the services.

Perfect! I tried 3 different ways and it kept updating on it's own every 12-24hrs. Followed your steps and whalah! It's been 36hrs now and so far so good! Thank You! I think turning on metered connection was the trick. @4:00

*You're a legend mate !* Thanks for your very competent advice.

*Windows updates make my pc run slower*

Funny, I was on the phone with Microsoft for 2 hours just for the rep to tell me disabling updates couldn't be done! So I thank you Britec09 for your many Windows tutorials which been helping me out for years😊

I tried a different video and it didn’t work, but I followed this one and it worked 100%! It was very easy to follow and now my laptop won’t randomly update. Thanks!

Every time Windows 10 updates it causes some sort of headache-creating malfunction of my computer, eats up hours of my time. GRRRRRRR

I just subscribed to because you prevented me from buying another computer because last one was destroyed by windows updates.Thank you!

“Hey man this is Meek, this is my friend Corg and we are here to help you remove Windows update.”

Thank you much. Quite comprehensive and well explained, good work. I tried to cancel Win10 updates before unsuccessfully, hope this works. Because MS sucks big time, and Win10 updates suck, each update destroying completely my computer, and taking me days (!) to restore back (if I even can), not to mention one time even wiping out all (and I mean all, including my files). So I have files backups and each update I restore back to a previous date (or to original date, meaning a complete reset), what a pain in the rear. And if I can I am about to cancel Win10 updates forever, I mean FOREVER, permanently! What a pain of a lousy company.

Metered connection trick works very well (on WiFi and Ethernet connections) and is the easiest option without completely turning off updates permanently. You can still manually download the updates which will show up as available but require your input before downloading (also tells you the size of the download).

Windows Update screwed over my Lenovo Laptop. Typing this on my Macbook Pro. Thanks for this video, I'm hoping that it will permanently put an end to these pointless updates.

having to do all this just to save my OS from getting destroyed by updates fills me with so much hate.

Always liked and subscribed. Your tutorials are the most comprehensive and concise. Thank you very much.

Windows 10 Be like " Your PC is free from VIRUSES so your system needs an UPDATE "

Windows 10 is a silent update. It swallowed your data like it need it to breath. Every time update it eat 3+ gb(probably more) data. Wtf? Now this auto update can f**k off for good. Thanks for this video. Really help me a lot.

Even though I followed the steps, even with the recovery tab, eventually the update service comes back on and it's set to manual even though I never bothered with it beforehand. Is there a way to really fix that issue? I mainly use 1709.

Thank you so much brother! Windows 10 wasted all my data updating even after I stopped it the last time.

I bought a new computer and I was wondering why it was sooo slow because every time I open a program I have to wait 100 hours then I realized that the update installer was on NOW I DISABLED IT (PS. I’m on 1703 and I’m will not upgrade to 1803 NEVER) And my computer is running smoothly even the start up is fast THANK YOU!

A brand new computer shouldn't need updates. It's programmed to load your computer down with BS crap. Thanks for helping me STOP Windows Update

It's not making it better, it creates more problems. I'm on Linux now.

oh my god thank you so much i couldnt pause the update as i already paused it for a week and i didnt have enough space to install the update phew thanks so much!!!! :D

50 step process for something the end used should be able to do by flipping a switch.

Thank you, sir. Great videos. On Task Scheduler it won't let me disable UpdateAssistant. "The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task". And that's AFTER the tutorial on how to get full control of "your" PC. Anything I try to change, it asks for a password and none of my passwords work. This thing is a mystery inside an enigma inside a malware. Anyway....thank you again.

Perhaps a post should be in order about your wallpapers . My word , they are so gorgeous !! Each and every single one indeed 😇

Clear, to the point, useful, lovely accent. And, for the record, it worked! :D

I wish Microsoft stop with the updates and realize their update **** your computer up every time!!

Thanks! I finally stop the Windows Updates for a while because I need to do some works and I don’t want to get my PC restarted.

Thanks Britec for this. Shame is that we have to do this. A Windows system should be clean and in full control of the user not MS. I chose to stay with Windows 7. But will use this for the future when the time comes.

You know what. Windows makes it very difficult and confusing to disable updates. If you want to delete a program or disable anything ....no problem...but Windows Update is made very difficult for you to stop it. When things like this happen, it starts make me thinking is there more to this then just simple updates. With all the conspiracy which we all hear about, it really just gets me thinking.....thank you for your video.

And whilst you're at it, cripple that damned Cortana spyware as well.

Windows 10 is ridiculous... I purchased Windows 8 and all of a sudden it updated to windows 10 without me telling it to. Thanks for the updates disabling methods.

Thank you so much! Now i can enjoy windows 10 😄

If you dont disable Windows 10 updates you may end up with a computer stuck in a loop.

7:32 I get a message saying "The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task" . Even though I run task scheduler as an admin

I was going nuts trying to figure this out. Thank you

If they are not going to get these updates right they should give everybody the option to OPT OUT. For them to totally hose my system with their bugs is unacceptable. I am surprised some lawyer hasn't already taken Microsoft to court over this crap.

Please help me sir, I followed all your steps to disable windows update on my Win-10, but it automatically turns on again & again, I mean it automatically gets enabled!! How to solve it?

Windows XP is the best and the most legendary Windows version imo

The sequence are quite complicated but it's work! Very thanks a lot for your video!

I detest these Windows 10 updates, they often take hours to download and then the computer is slow and sometimes things don`t work as well.

Omg thank you soooooo much windows keeps installing cumulative update for 1903 and make my computer really slow and disabling bluetooth and keep having to use system restore but no need anymore. Thank You!!!!!!!!

I got problem with the service. Idk why, but the options start and stop for windows update / delivery optimization are greyed out. Can someone help me? It is so annoying with these updates especially delivery optimization.

Waoooo you are a lifesaver buddy. Windows creator update is very aggressive and just fails to update every single time no matter what. (Windows failed to configure some windows components reverting to previous version) Bothering me for over a year now but its over thanks to you.

Thanks Brian :-D That's a lot of trouble just to say no :-( i tend to stop services and (if i have to) delete the files and backups. What windows can't find, it can't restore or run. Yes i'm horrible lol, i lack patience now. A good task manager is your frend :)

Task Scheduler>Windows>WindowsUpdate>On the right side there is an entry called "sihpostreboot", when i click disable, it says "The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task." but nobody else uses my pc and I don't use any other account on my current setup. Thanks in advance for your time.

I feel I have no say what the OS does these days, it restarts according it's own will regardless of what settings I have used. Until now I've been relatively happy to leave the services running because I could update when I wanted, but now that the end-user settings have no effect anymore, I'm just going to disable the services, edit group policy, delete scheduled tasks, make wifi metered and add 1 MB monthly limit, and so forth. These forced restarts significantly lower my willingness to pay money for this piece of crap.

amazing video.. thank you for literally doing what everyone is here for

I'm logged in as an administrator however task scheduler says I'm unable to disable the update orchestrator, I don't have permission. How can you elevate above an admin?

Dear Brian. Assuming I am not using wifi, and I want to have my apps updated, just not the system, then will finishing after the part "Recovery Tab" in Windows Update be enough to stop the update? Thanks!

And I still want to use win 7 for some reasons , maybe beause win 7 can be manipulated so easily

That service was running at 30 - 50% on CPU constantly. Thank you!!

And that's why the pirated version of Windows is better than the original ahahhaha...

Thanks man, hope this will work, Im from the Philippines and the internet here is so expensive and so slow, updates are so bad for us here.

I tried turning off updates on services before and somehow didn't work, so my windows still updates and restarts pc without asking me. And I'm thinking if none of these work at this point, i'm gonna find a sledgehammer and smash my PC..

Thanks for that. I tried delaying updates, but forget when that runs out, but can usually tell when it's due to start again, as my PC starts to slow down. When I allowed the updates to go ahead, this always resulted in my PC crashing and loads of error messages, so I had to reset it, which then delted all my downloaded apps and wasted hours of time. Therefore the updates don't work. Plus I have anti virus, so don't need anything else.

my pc is fighting back so I just deleated all windows update folders in the system

you got the best cpu channel I hit the bell years ago

This is the reason that i stopped using win 10 there is no virus protection for the stuff that comes from win 10 by the very description of a virus is what win 10 is doing here is the rub i own the computer i should be able to do with it as i want this is my workings not for some one to reach in and turn off software i install i am is the process of converting all the computers i have to any thing but win system they have lost me and probably many others

Brian, I feel hijacked with win 10. I need a computer for my work I cannot have updates runing. I'll this hope will help. I already deleted all tasks. Thax for great vid

I swear- Whenever I'm playing a game windows would just disturb it and update, Its kinda getting on my nerves now.

I was thinking to do an update of windows, 1-2 times per year . If i follow all there , is it possible to do so after ? I mean, to reactivate updates and close again ? Or i never need to do so ?

We have to do this so Flash Player doesn’t get removed from our browsers!

is metered connection setting can bad while multiplayer gaming?

What a joke Windows 10 is. Thanks for the reminder of why I won't install this.

These "updates" have destroyed my computers in the past. They're total scams. Appreciate the help! Thank you sir

when i disabled windows update in services, it automatically starts running again when I on my laptop the next day!!! How to stop that?

do you need to do all this to stop the updates ? or is enough to go to services or gpedit and just disable them

I did this and after a week it still wants to updste

Excellent! Thank you so much. Very comprehensive sir. Your time and clarity was appreciated.