Why is Win10 so busy updating?

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Today I checked the Reliability Monitor and found many unexplained daily Win10 updates (other than the daily Windows Defender security update). These have no KB#.  The successfully installed ones do not appear in the Windows View Update History.

The PC is running Win pro  v1909; the update settings are as described in PKCano’s AKB 20….16 which I would have been completely lost without. Pause updates is set to 0 days.  I have been using this pc only since March 1; Feb & March 2020 cumulative updates have been installed.

The following are a sample of many unexplained updates over the past week.

Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following update: 9NG1H8B3ZC7M-Microsoft.MixedReality.Portal

Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following update: 9NZKPSTSNW4P-Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80073D02: 9NX51W9GBS5T-ScreenovateTechnologies.DellMobileConnect.

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80248007: 9N00JJ7S3L39-Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.0.

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80073D02: 9NMPJ99VJBWV-Microsoft.YourPhone.

The following message must be for the Office 2016 update for the unactivated/unused trial version that came installed on the pc. There were about 10 of these Office 16 on the same date.

Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following update: Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Office 16 Click-to-Run Extensibility Component. Product Version: 16.0.12527.20278. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Reconfiguration success or error status: 0.

As I am new to Win 10, I am not sure why there is the constant daily updating – some successful, others not. I do not have the inclination or expertise to determine why many of the updates were not successful.

Is there a way to turn this updating procedure off – other than Defender? If so, should they be turned off?

Thanks for any explanations regarding this Win 10 behavior.

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Many of the updates you are seeing are for Windows Store Apps. They do not use Windows Update.
You can slow that down by going to the Windows Store Apps, and in the upper right corner clicking on the  three dots, or accessing it’s settings. You can choose not to automatically update and make it manual, so they update only when you do it yourself.

Any of the Office Click-to-Run applications have their own updating and do not update through Windows Update either. You can go through their settings within the Office App and control the “when” on those also.

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Seattle27

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PKCano, many thanks for coming to the rescue again. Of all the Windows versions I have used, 10 is the most complicated and confusing and offers nothing that I need that is not in 7, or XP for that matter.

I turned auto update off on Store items. Maybe that will quieten it a bit.

I may just uninstall the unused trial version of Office and that will take care of its attempts to update. If I decide on the current version of Office, I will install a fresh version.

Thanks again.

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This worked for me:
In C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun
I renamed officesvcmgr.exe and OfficeC2RClient.exe.

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