Microsoft published a support article ( How to temporarily prevent a Windows or driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10, KB3073930) after NVIDIA drivers caused problems.
The registry key to change the behavior of Windows Update ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\AUOptions) also no longer seems to have an effect.Īnyway, let’s see what we can do to stop automatic updates in Windows 10. It appears to me that Microsoft is still fighting with the two different user interfaces in one operating system. The only thing that you can still do in the Control Panel is uninstall updates. (Please let me know if you know of a way to bring it back.) However, even if you take ownership of the key and then change the value, the Update applet will not appear in the Control Panel. The reason is that local administrators don’t have the right to change this value. You will receive an error message ( Cannot edit IsConvergedUpdateStackEnabled. In the Preview version, you could bring back the Windows Update applet in the Control Panel by changing the Registry keys. I outlined in a previous article that businesses have other options to stop Windows updates in addition to the ones I describe below. Please notice that this problem only exists on standalone machines.
