• Controlling updates in Win10 Home

    Posted on November 10, 2016 at 13:45 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    I’m going back and forth – forgive my indecision – on which method I should recommend for blocking updates in Win10 Home without Wi-Fi internet. (With Wi-Fi, just set a metered connection and you’re done.)

    I see three options:

    1. Manually edit the registry (or use Chris Hoffman’s How-To Geek REG file or Michael Pietroforte’s 4sysops PowerShell script) to set the DefaultMediaCost key.
    2. Disable the Windows Update service – type services.msc in the Cortana box, in the Services (Local) list, double-click on Windows Update, select Disabled and click OK. That’s the approach Noel Carboni favors, but abbodi86 notes that there are various scheduled tasks that will flip the setting back to Automatic, and that manually running Windows Update also flips the setting to Automatic.
    3. Advise people to just buy a Wi-Fi dongle, and use it for internet access. That approach has all sorts of problems, especially for folks who want (and pay for) speedy connections.

    Does anybody have a definitive take on the situation?

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