Microsoft Will Finally Let Windows 10 Home Users Pause Updates
Since the first release of Windows 10 way back in 2015, users have continued to inquire about Microsoft to provide them controls over when if they should install the modern Windows updates. Trying to prevent the disastrous Android-like fragmentation issues, Microsoft pushes monthly security and have updates to each and every machine running Windows 10. But they have an overabundance than often generated compatibility issues and also other minor bugs and problems, otherwise major issues.
While the reasoning behind aggressively pushing latest updates might be somewhat legit, it isn’t a user-friendly system once the consumer is scared of the newest updates potentially breaking their machines and reside in perpetual nervous about these often-important updates. The least then Microsoft could do is always to offer the power to temporarily block these updates.
We have shared with you steps to bar Windows 10 updates before you are sure you are for the update and/or which a certain update has become stabilized enough. However, those settings aren’t official and frequently result in users missing on important security patches.
Windows 10 Pro users have controls to pause Windows updates, however the settings have remained different for Windows 10 Home users. Up until now…
The upcoming Windows 10 April 2019 Update (19H1) might finally bring this control to Windows 10 Home users. Currently being tested by Windows Insiders, the subsequent version of Windows, codenamed 19H1, appears this change in settings. First spotted by Thurrot (paywall), the brand new setting appears in Windows Update.
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You should head over to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and you will probably see a new “Pause Updates for seven days” option. The setting only seems to those testing the most up-to-date Windows 10 19H1 Insider Preview Build.
When paused, Windows 10 won’t install any new updates. You can then either resume the updates if you are ready to set up the update or Windows will resume installing them itself after the seven day period expires.
If everything goes as planned, this setting should arrive to everyone with the discharge of the upcoming Windows 10 2019, slated with an April release. As it appears, you may only pause updates for about seven days, so that you will get plenty of time to wait until the weekend to change your machines and handle any potential issues.
While seven days may not sound plenty of time to some Windows 10 users, let’s understand that the Windows maker would want to steer clear of the update fiasco that Android continues to manage and keep several Windows 10 machines as you can on the most up-to-date version. That said, it will be nice if Microsoft would trust its users to maintain their own causes of delaying or deferring a specific update specifically since company has a good history of delivering broken updates.
While the reasoning behind aggressively pushing latest updates might be somewhat legit, it isn’t a user-friendly system once the consumer is scared of the newest updates potentially breaking their machines and reside in perpetual nervous about these often-important updates. The least then Microsoft could do is always to offer the power to temporarily block these updates.
We have shared with you steps to bar Windows 10 updates before you are sure you are for the update and/or which a certain update has become stabilized enough. However, those settings aren’t official and frequently result in users missing on important security patches.Windows 10 Pro users have controls to pause Windows updates, however the settings have remained different for Windows 10 Home users. Up until now…
Microsoft considers offering Windows 10 Home users the capacity to pause updates for approximately 7 days
The upcoming Windows 10 April 2019 Update (19H1) might finally bring this control to Windows 10 Home users. Currently being tested by Windows Insiders, the subsequent version of Windows, codenamed 19H1, appears this change in settings. First spotted by Thurrot (paywall), the brand new setting appears in Windows Update.
Related After Multiple Disasters, Microsoft Has Finally Decided to Use Its Insiders to Test Cumulative Updates (KB4476976 Is Out)
You should head over to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and you will probably see a new “Pause Updates for seven days” option. The setting only seems to those testing the most up-to-date Windows 10 19H1 Insider Preview Build.When paused, Windows 10 won’t install any new updates. You can then either resume the updates if you are ready to set up the update or Windows will resume installing them itself after the seven day period expires.
If everything goes as planned, this setting should arrive to everyone with the discharge of the upcoming Windows 10 2019, slated with an April release. As it appears, you may only pause updates for about seven days, so that you will get plenty of time to wait until the weekend to change your machines and handle any potential issues.
While seven days may not sound plenty of time to some Windows 10 users, let’s understand that the Windows maker would want to steer clear of the update fiasco that Android continues to manage and keep several Windows 10 machines as you can on the most up-to-date version. That said, it will be nice if Microsoft would trust its users to maintain their own causes of delaying or deferring a specific update specifically since company has a good history of delivering broken updates.
