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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

My bad, I'll check again when I get home. Could have sworn it was available by default, but it might be a Pro/Enterprise version thing, or something I had to do through Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise unless there's an underlying registry entry you can snag to apply to Home installs).

Either way, 100% agree that you should never have to jump through hoops for such a basic piece of functionality. It's your machine, not Microsoft's.

EDIT: Yeah, you're right. Can pause updates for 35 days. You can keep resetting those 35 days indefinitely, but that's some bullshit.

And it looks like all my fancy ways of disabling auto-restarts for updates are all Group Policy, so restricted to Pro and Enterprise versions. That's some shit.

Protip: If you need Windows then go with the Pro version for the most config options against the bullshit, but don't pay for it. Get a super discounted price from a licensed OEM license key seller, or just use MASGrave to spoof the license for free.

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