Shutdown Win 7 without being forced to perform updates

Question

original title: Shutdown Win 7 without updates

Is there a way to shutdown windows 7 without being forced to install the updates? There are plenty of times when updates are ready but i want the computer off and ready to move. I hate having to wait for updates when i don't even tell it to do them.

Answer 1

I hear that the shutdown option you desire was requested during the beta of Windows 7 but the request apparently went unheard.

Sorry but, about the only thing I can suggest is to change Windows Updates' settings to allow you when to decide to download and install the updates when you have the appropriate amount of time to do so. My Win 7 system is set to that option so I can't say what the Download updates but let me choose whether to install them option will give you another shutdown option that does not install updates.

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Answer 2

You can use the good, old fashion ALT-F4. It will display a shut down box with the option to shut down without installing updates.

Answer 3

press the button next to shut down click log off when the computer logs off you will see at the bottom right corner a shut down button next to the button is an up arrow click the arrow and above install updates and shut down there is just a shut down only button.

Answer 4

If you just log off and then shutdown from logged out state then it won't install the updates.

Answer 5

One temporary solution that I utilize is the DOS shutdown command in the search prompt, basically the same as the run....

shutdown -s -t 01

This will shutdown the computer after 1 second.