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I am on Windows 10 Home, Version 1909. I did quite a bit of research on how to completely disable windows updates. This involved disabling the following services

  • Background Intelligent Transfer Service
  • Update Orchestrator Service
  • Windows Update Windows
  • Update Medic Service

However after some time, these services magically re-enable themselves. This seems to work even when my machine is not connected to the internet. How exactly is Windows able to re-enable these processes by itself, and how can I prevent this? I am aware of the security implication of turning Windows Updates off. It's fine for my use case.

Edit: I am not sure why this gets down-voted and why a different question is linked that does not answer my specific question. I have already consulted the link (links to a closed post, which in turn links to another post with answers going back to 2017). One of the more recent answers points out that non of the other answers to completely disable Windows update works anymore, and proposes the solution to disable these 4 processes. However, this no longer works either because even Windows Update Medic Service (which can be turned off via registry hack) turns itself back on. Therefore, the question is by which mechanism does this happen. As it stands, for the Windows version I am using there does not seem to be a working solution.

braaterAfrikaaner
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  1. Head to the start menu and type services to launch the services App.

  2. Look out for Windows Update in the name list. Double click to open.

  3. In General tab under startup type, choose Disabled and under service status press the Stop button to stop the service.

  4. Then under recovery tab, in first, second and subsequent failures choose Take no action.

  5. Then press ok to confirm your modifications.

Sonu Langaya
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