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You can’t Pause again without accepting all backed-up updates in the interim.

You can only Pause once, and only for seven days.

While that’s certainly a step in the right direction, it doesn’t help much in the real world: The current beta test version of the next (“19H1” or “1903”) version of Win10 Home includes the ability to Pause updates for seven days.

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At that point, turn “metered” off, and just let your machine update itself. If you set your internet connection to metered, you need to watch closely as the month unfolds, and judge when it’s safe to let the demons in the door. Move the slider for Metered connection to On. On the right, click on your Wi-Fi connection. To set your Wi-Fi connection as metered: Click Start > Settings > Network & Internet. Then move the slider for Metered connection to On. On the right, click on your Ethernet connection. To set your Ethernet connection as metered: Click Start > Settings > Network & Internet. If upgrading to Win10 Pro isn’t an option – and I sympathize if you’d rather not hand over another $100 to Microsoft for something that should come standard – your only other reasonable option is to set your internet connection to “metered.” Metered connections are an update-blocking kludge that seems to work to fend off cumulative updates, but as best I can tell still doesn’t have Microsoft’s official endorsement as a cumulative update prophylactic. Microsoft, your customers deserve better than this.” As Susan Bradley says, “Every version of Windows should be able to defer and pause updates…. Win10 Home customers by design are Microsoft’s extended beta-plus testing force. Microsoft has no qualms whatsoever in pushing its new, untested (perhaps I should say “less-than-thoroughly-tested”) updates and upgrades onto Windows 10 Home machines. They really should call it Win10 Guinea Pig edition. Microsoft considers Home customers fair game. If there are any real howlers – months where the cumulative updates were irretrievably bad, and never got any better, as they were in July of last year – we’ll let you know, loud and clear. You don’t need to explicitly save anything. By setting this to 10 or 15 or 20 days, Win10 will update itself after the major screams of pain have subsided and (with some luck) the bad cumulative updates have been pulled or re-issued. (“Quality update” = bug fix.) In my experience, Microsoft usually yanks bad Win10 cumulative updates within a couple of weeks of their initial release. To delay cumulative updates, set the “quality update” deferral to 15 days or so. Don’t leave it up to Microsoft’s “ next generation advanced learning ” algorithm which, presumably, is more advanced than the current-generation advanced learning algorithm.

Youshould choose when you want to upgrade.

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That has the added benefit of blocking Microsoft’s forced upgrade to Win10 version 1809, if you're on 1703 or 1709. That tells the Windows Updater (unless Microsoft makes another “mistake,” as it has numerous times in the past ) that it should wait until 120 days after a new version is declared ready for broad deployment before upgrading and re-installing Windows on your machine. To further delay new versions until they’ve been minimally tested, set the “feature update” deferral setting to 120 days or more. ('Semi-Annual Channel' is this month's bafflegab version of the old 'Current Branch for Business,' which was a euphemism for 'ready for paying customers.') To pull yourself out of beta testing, in the first box, choose Semi-Annual Channel. On the right, click the link for Advanced options. Using an administrative account, click Start > Settings > Update & Security.

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If you’re using Windows 10 Pro version 1709, 1803, or 1809, I recommend an update blocking technique that Microsoft lists for “Broad Release” in its obscure Build deployment rings for Windows 10 updates - which is intended for admins, but applies to you, too. Blocking automatic update on Windows 10 Pro Verify that you have Important Updates set to 'Never check for updates (not recommended)' and click OK. Click the 'Change Settings' link on the left. Under Windows Update, click the 'Turn automatic updating on or off' link. If you’re using Windows 7 or 8.1, click Start > Control Panel > System and Security. Windows 7 originally shipped with an automatic update feature that was turned off by default. Blocking automatic update on Win7 and 8.1 But in almost all cases, you can afford to wait a couple of weeks to get patches installed – and that’s usually enough time for the bad bugs to show themselves.

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In some rare cases, you need to install specific patches shortly after they’re released.

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Of course, you have to patch sooner or later.

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