Completely Disable Windows 10 Update Services

There are a couple of (3 or 4) services need to be disabled and stopped to run. This video is using two different windows to show you the difference how to complete disable all those following services: 1. Background Intelligent Transfer Service 2. Windows Update 3. Update Orchestrator Service 4. win10 upgraded to after version 1800, ，there is one more service to disable “Windows Update Medic Service” ———————————————— Also, you will find there are two services which will need to use registry key to disable them. 1. Update Orchestrator Service 2. Windows Update Medic Service The easiest way is to use Windows Update Blocker - https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-6/ I used that a lot recently to block windows update. You can enable / disable it whenever you want. ================================================= If your services come back running again after a couple of days , you might want to try following two methods: Method 1: Here is another registry key, you might want to give it a try: Navigate to the following path in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows 1. Right-click the Windows (folder) key, select New, and then click the Key option.Name the new key WindowsUpdate and press Enter. 2. Right-click the newly created key, select New, and click the Key option.Name the new key AU and press Enter. 3. Right-click on the right side, select New, and click the DWORD (32-bit) Value option.Name the new key NoAutoUpdate and press Enter. 4. Double-click the newly created key and change its value from 0 to 1. Click the OK button.Restart your computer. ----------------------------- Method 2: Another way is to use group policy. Run gpedit.msc as administrator then navigate to the following path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update 1. Double-click the Configure Automatic Updates policy on the right side. 2. Check the Disabled option to turn off the policy. Click the Apply then OK button. ======================================================= If this video is having some useful information, please give me a thumb up. Subscribe me to get more updates: https://www.youtube.com/c/Netsec?sub_confirmation=1 Learning and Sharing all kinds of Cyber Security Knowledge for Cloud, Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Assessment, Threat Hunting, Policy Compliance, SIEM, Cisco, Checkpoint, F5, Juniper, Fortigate, Palo Alto, Vmware etc. - 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 http://51sec.org