What is the way to completely close Windows update in Win10?

Question

What is the way to completely close Windows update in Win10?

Answer 1

Disable the Windows Update service is the first step, and then disable the Windows Update scheduled tasks.

Here is something I wrote up for device manufacturers: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise (14393): Turn Off Windows Update and Managing Updates

-Sean Liming

Answer 2

Hi,

As I know, even if we could disable Windows Update service and task scheduler about update task, a build-in update task will trigger it to run automatically.

So, in fact, it is not available to disable Windows Update totally.

You could try to check on your side for this behavior. We recommend to defer Feature Update up to 365 days. Or defer quality update up to 30 days.

Here is an article about how to configure it;
Defer feature updates in Windows 10

Bests,

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Answer 3

Is this method also available in Win10 20H2 version?