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Last I checked, even if you wanted to, you couldn't turn off Windows Updates.

• shak77 9y ago
  You can, using group policies or changing the registry.
• kachurovskiy 9y ago
  Windows Update likes to kick in when I'm playing online, making fps drop to 10. Tried all the buttons to make it ask before downloading stuff but it didn't help. My last punch was disabling the Windows Update service.
  • pooper 9y ago
    Please don't disable windows update for gaming. There is a gaming mode (which really ought to be called normal mode) which should help. The only other stipulation is you must keep your computer plugged in, turned on, and connected to the Internet as much as you can so windows can do its thing while you're not using it.
    • bschwindHN 9y ago
      Windows: it's like a small child you have to take care of. They're lucky gaming is most popular on Windows, otherwise they've got zero going for them.
• Anarch157a 9y ago
  You need to disable wuauserv.
• deleted 9y ago
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• stordoff 9y ago
  On Pro (IIRC it's not available on Home), you can disable the installation of updates via Group Policy, and on Home there are likely non-standard ways on doing it.
• _pmf_ 9y ago
  It's inadvertently disabled for me because my C drive is full (and apparently, in 2018, it's of utmost import that multi gigabyte ephemeral files are cached on the partition that is most likely to be the fullest among all drives).