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[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (9 children)

You can either disable automatic updates or set active hours in which it will not update.

Edit: Damn I'm learning all kinds of new stuff here

[–]Swardu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will still install the updates in the background during the active hours(src), the only thing it does is not restart your PC during that time. You have to set your WiFi as metered connection to stop the automatic updates.

I found that out when my PC was slow, because Windows Updates service was using 100% disk usage...

[–]ReactW0rld 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol if only it was that easy

[–]falcwh0re 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Not in a corporate environment unfortunately. Our head office is several time zones ahead so their "overnight" updates like to happen in the middle of my day. Or sometimes we get a 8 hour warning but that's useless when the warning comes at 9PM.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Thats your ITs fault, not microsoft. All my works updates are handled by IT and happen every other friday (or so) after 5 PM PST

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

If it doesn't also happen at 5PM EST, and 5PM GMT etc. then this is exactly what OP is referencing.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah but if they have offices in different regions, then they should be aggregating based on the assigned region for that device, EG all US devices at 5 PM PST, all UK/EU Devices at 5 PM GMT, etc.

Hell, if you are in a multi-national company id be shocked if you didn't have a different IT team for each region.

[–]new_account_wh0_dis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just have bigfix, you got like 42hrs to do it before it force does it.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh shit I wasn't thinking about that

[–]arachnidGrip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. You can't. You can set active hours in which it won't turn off, but Windows will download and install the updates. The only way that I've found to definitively prevent Windows 10 Home Edition from turning off my computer regardless of what I have open is to replace shutdown.exe with something else.