Windows 10 contains a lot of changes and one among them is how Windows downloads and installs the Windows updates. In Windows 7 you’ll be able to control when Windows can download and install the updates. In fact, you’ll even disable Windows updates completely. However, in Windows 10 the selection for you is pretty limited. You can’t control when Windows 10 will download the updates, but you’ll make Windows 10 install those updates outside of the active hours. Of course, this makes sure that each one the users are up to date, and Microsoft doesn’t need to worry about releasing major updates or features.
Typically, Windows updates range anywhere from a number of megabytes to a number of hundred megabytes. If you’ve got an honest Internet connection then downloading these updates isn’t a problem. However, if you’ve got a poor or limited Internet connection, downloading these updates are often a hassle. Windows tends to require up all the speed, and your general browsing experience are going to be degraded. To form things worse, there’s no straightforward choice to temporarily pause the downloads like in Windows 7.
So, here we explained this article how to pause windows 10 update in progress.
Pause and Resume Windows 10 update
Step 1
First, you press the keyboard buttons Win + X, and there select the Command prompt option that will open in the admin access on your Windows 10 OS.
Step 2
Here, first you stop the Windows update services, you want to execute the below command:
net stop wuauserv
Step 3
Next, you stop the Background Intelligent Transfer service and for that execute the below command:
net stop bits
Step 4
Finally you want to stop is Delivery Optimization and for that execute the below command:
net stop dosvc
Step 5
The above commands are used to stop updates services and whenever you need to resume all these services then you can execute the below commands one by one:
net start wuauserv net start bits net start dosvc
Finally, you are done. So, here your windows, updates services can be resumed and paused easily.
Using Windows 10 Settings
The above methods is not working you use and go-through this method. The advanced Windows 10 builds have an choice to pause Windows 10 updates for up to 35 days. Hence, you check out how to pause Windows 10 updates for up to 35 days.
Step 1
First, you have open the Start menu and click on ‘Settings’.
Step 2
Next you tab the Settings option, and click on Update & Security.
Step 3
Next, you click on the ‘Advanced Options’.
Step 4
Here you must to toggle the Pause button to On.
Finally, you are done. This is how you can pause Windows updates for up to 35 days.
Using Windows Services
Fine, you can also manually pause and resume Windows 10 updates through the services page. You just want to follow some of the simple steps given below.
Step 1
First you have, search for ‘Services.msc’ on the Windows search and open the Services from the list of options.
Step 2
Next, you search for ‘Background Intelligent Transfer’. Double click on it, and select ‘Disabled’ on the Startup type Option. Once you done, tap on the ‘Apply’ button.
Step 3
Then you have search for ‘Windows Update’. Double click on the Windows update, and select ‘Disabled’ on the Startup type Option. Once you done, tap on the ‘Apply’ button.
Step 4
Then, you go back to the Services page and search for ‘Delivery Optimization’. Double click on the ‘Delivery Optimization’ and select ‘Disabled’ on the Startup type Option.
Step 5
The above procedures are disable the Windows automatic updates. If you want to enable/resume the Windows update again, then select ‘Automatic’ as startup type on the three options – Background Intelligent Transfer, Windows Update, & Delivery Optimization.
