How to Disable Update and Shutdown in Windows 10

Windows has always provided updates in order to provide more or better features to its users, or if need to patch up bugs and security risks come up as well. All that is good, however, some people mostly have their computer on for most of the time. Such as, waiting for over 30 minutes for your PC to update during office hours can be a big inconvenience. In this article, we are going to talk about How to Disable Update and Shutdown in Windows 10. Let’s begin!

There are other times that you might also have to shut down or reboot instantly and updates will only slow this down. Your computer might also be acting pretty funny forcing the need to reboot and it will be a bit risky in order to run updates at that time. No point in making a bad problem even worse.

Well, in Windows 10, you will get a notification about the update being download and also prepare for installation and ask you in order to restart to apply the updates. You can then select whether you want to restart or postpone the updates. The other options to restart or shut down your PC also include shutting or restarting along with updates or shutting or restarting without even updates.

Those shutdown or restart options are available in all editions of Windows 10. And have been there for over a year now because of a few builds before November Update version 1511. It’s the nature of the update that determines if the option to shut down or restart without even updating is shown or not. Some updates need an immediate restart, and some not.

How to Disable Update and Shutdown in Windows 10

Tap on Window + R and put regedit in the Run dialog box in order to open Registry Editor and then click OK.
Now in the left pane of Registry Editor window, and navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU