• Using GPedit on Win10 Home doesn’t block updates

    Posted on November 9, 2016 at 13:54 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Just got a definitive answer from JC:

    The TweakHound Win10 patching block only works with the Pro version  in conjunction with gpedit.msc.

    I have Win10 Home. I downloaded and installed gpedit into my system, then set the windows update\”Configure Automatic Updates” to: “Notify for download and notify for install”

    It didn’t work. Last night, the Win10 Home patch KB 3200970 installed itself automatically.  Microsoft bypassed my tweak and did the update last night when I rebooted. It took nearly 40 minutes to do the update..

    As I see it, I have two choices:

    Upgrade to the Pro version

    Or

    Turn Off windows updates manually.

    It looks like metered connection is still the best way to block automatic updates on Win10 Home machines.

    Windows Patches/Security ,
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