If you want a bit more freedom in terms of selecting the window in which you don’t want Windows 10 to update, you must scroll a bit further down on the Windows Update page and select the Advanced option. You can select this option to pause the automatic download and install of the Windows 10 updates for up to a week at a time, and you need to keep repeating it for the paused situation to continue.

Look a bit further down on this page, and you will see the “Pause Updates for 7 days” option. This opens the update page, which shows the list of pending updates if any, and the download as well as install status for each of these. Here, either scroll down to find Windows Update or search for it. Here, select the Settings menu, which opens a new app window. Click on the Windows 10 icon on the bottom left of the screen to open the start menu. You can pause updates from downloading and installing on your Windows 10 PC for up to 7 days at a time or select a time frame up to 35 days to stay update-free, depending on which option you choose.

If you are among the millions currently working from home and heavily dependent on your PC to get work done, you might want to hold off on the Windows 10 updates, albeit temporarily, considering the nature of the constantly updating and evolving operating system.

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