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| Thread ID: 143163 | 2016-12-05 20:58:00 | Windows 10 Updates | johnnytrident (2592) | Press F1 |
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| 1429535 | 2016-12-05 20:58:00 | Hi all. I have a 3yr old Acer Aspire E1-570. I upgraded this to Win 10 from 8.1 some months back. When I am away from home I use my Samsung phone as a wireless hotspot for internet access and check for Windows and antivirus updates when I can use WiFi. With 8.1 I was able to set it to notify me when updates were available and then download them when I was ready. I do not seem to have this option with Win 10 and it just goes ahead and updates whether I want to or not. This uses up my limited phone data very quickly. Update settings appears to be currently set to: Available updates will be downloaded and installed automatically except over metered connections (where charges may apply) So the question is: How do I set Win 10 to notify me when updates are available? Thanks for any help. |
johnnytrident (2592) | ||
| 1429536 | 2016-12-05 21:31:00 | Depending if you have W10 home or Pro. Pro can be set by editing Group Policy Editor , home by default cant as it doesn't have that function. Some simply disable the update service, works, just have to remember to turn it back on again when wanting to do any updates. But having your settings as you have " except over metered connections " Means they shouldn't download. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1429537 | 2016-12-05 22:00:00 | So the question is: How do I set Win 10 to notify me when updates are available? Thanks for any help. the notification is the restart (just kidding) the updates will just download, then only notification you get is the prompt to restart (or worse, after restart) MS have in their infinite wisdom taken away user control over winupdates for Win10 , I guess their engineers dont live in the real world. What you can try, is turn of the update service, then restart the update service when convenient for you. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1429538 | 2016-12-12 20:23:00 | Sorry, I should have replied to this earlier. Thanks to wainuitech and 1101 for their suggestions. Yes I would have thought that the "except over metered connection" would have prevented this problem. I am talking about several hundred Mb here and so I contacted my ISP and they confirmed for me that Microsoft are the culprits. So disabling the update service at times would appear to be the option I need. Except that I cant find where to do this. Can I trouble the brainstrust here for some more suggestions on how to achieve this please? Thanks again. |
johnnytrident (2592) | ||
| 1429539 | 2016-12-12 20:36:00 | Windows doesn't just magically know what connections are metered. You need to tell your PC that the smartphone wireless is a metered connection otherwise it'll treat it like any other wi-fi www.howtogeek.com It won't make it notify you but it will stop it downloading updates on that connection. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1429540 | 2016-12-12 20:40:00 | Theres several ways, but one is In the Search type in Services, double click it to open: 7729 in the window that opens scroll down to windows update, set it to Disabled. 7730 To save a bit of time, you can create a shortcut to the services if you want on your desktop or taskbar . For desktop -- Type services as before in search, right click it, Left click - Open File Location - Right click the shortcut, send to - Desktop. Task bar, same as above but search, right click, pin to taskbar. There are other ways as well by using .bat files. :nerd: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1429541 | 2016-12-13 02:51:00 | Disabling Windows Update isn't smart IMHO set your SSID to be a Metered Connection |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1429542 | 2016-12-13 03:16:00 | +1 for metered connection, works a charm. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1429543 | 2016-12-13 05:42:00 | Thanks to all who have replied. That is the info I needed. I now have two options to fix my problem. |
johnnytrident (2592) | ||
| 1429544 | 2016-12-13 08:19:00 | Using Windows 10 isn't smart IMHO FTFY spywareboy, you're welcome. |
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