Windows 10 Disabling Automatic Updates

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I come in and find my PC has rebooted after an automatic update and I have insert my password again to get things going. I dislike this intensely and would like to do the updates manually at a time of my choosing. I have looked in the Win10 forum but cannot find anything relevant (probably a man look).

Can anyone point me in the right direction? :)
 
I have been caught out with an automated reboot too (when I had work left open! It was saved thankfully). :mad:

You could try to disable updates, but if there's a critical security hole found then you may miss out until remembering to update. Perhaps disabling the automated reboot would be a good compromise (just my thoughts anyway)?

This link explains the ways of doing both those things in quite a lot of detail:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224471/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-downloading-updates/
 
No, I was simply agreeing with what Ian said. :)
 
I have 'auto-update' deferred to a time when the PC is not on ... oh, and when I turn off my PC, I turn off the power switch.

... never had a fire, yet. ;)
 
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