How to prevent Windows 10 updates when at work

In the previous one month we accept seen incidents of people getting embarrassed on alive Boob tube and radio broadcasts when their normal transmission was interrupted with the Windows 10 Update notifications. In the first case, we saw Windows ten successfully managing to interrupt live tv, when Iowa meteorologist Metinka Slate had a "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows ten" screen draping all over Iowa'southward expected rainfall.

In the second, a radio testify host had to experience a more than aggressive display of Windows 10 taking all over his prove. Thom Hartmann's syndicated radio show'south YouTube alive stream server went offline when information technology started upgrading to Windows 10, "while they were on the air." The host was, as tin be expected, freaking out and asking for suggestions from his listeners to help him switch to Ubuntu. Well, all you gotta do is head over to settings and schedule your updates - most of the times it works. But yeah, we take repeatedly said how annoyingly Windows 10 update notifications and installations treat a user.

Configure Windows x Active Hours

It might be refreshing for you to learn that Microsoft is finally realizing that these prompts and motorcar-installations are doing nothing just bothering the users. The company is planning to introduce a Windows ten Active Hours feature which volition allow users to specify which hours of the day y'all volition most likely exist working on your machine. In those hours, Windows will avert installing updates. Microsoft is testing out this characteristic in the Windows ten Redstone build 14316, which ways insiders can already try out this feature. Here is how:

Open up the Settings app >Update & security.
Under Update settings, click onModify Active Hours(newly added option).
In here, you lot can specify the time you by and large utilise your computer.
Click onSave to ostend the changes.

Note that since this characteristic is introduced in Windows x, it won't unfortunately come to the aid of our two friends whose stories nosotros shared at the start of this postal service. While Windows x Agile Hours volition piece of work to salve you from car installations of security, characteristic and maintenance updates on your Windows 10 machines, on your Windows 7 and 8 PCs, you tin can always get to Windows Update and schedule a restart time to avoid any surprise updates. We are enlightened of the stories when sometimes these precautions accept failed, but they tend to piece of work most of the times.

With Windows 10 getting the almost-awaited Ceremony Update later this summertime, it seems the OS will finally start behaving similar a grown-up, without trying its users to death.