Disabling Windows 10 Updates

[johng]

We are in the habit of disabling the windows update service on our club laptop, to prevent windows 10 applying them at an inconvenient time such as the start of a bridge session. If we wish to check for, or apply, windows updates we can then re-enable the service at a convenient time. Since a recent windows 10 update it appears that windows 10 now automatically re-enables the windows updates service if it discovers that it has been manually disabled. However, I discovered the following article which describes a procedure for defeating this "feature". Haven't tried it out yet, but am posting it here in case it is of use to others:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-10-windows-update-keeps-turning-it-self/323c832e-119f-4552-8641-474acbd3dcff