If you're running Windows 10 Home, there is no supported way to delay the installation of updates. When a feature update is available, it will install in the next window outside Active Hours. You can try various workarounds, such as shutting off the Windows Update service or setting your network connection as metered, but these only briefly postpone the inevitable.
In Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions, you can defer feature updates for up to 16 months after their initial release to the Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted). In addition, you can defer quality updates, including the monthly Patch Tuesday fixes, by up to 30 days.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faq-how-to-manage-windows-10-updates/
 
With that said, I use a combination of the metered network trick, and the MS "wushowhide" utility to keep Win10 updates at bay on my Win10 Home laptop (I use Win10 Pro on my DAW).
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3162-set-wireless-network-metered-non-metered-windows-10-a.html
 
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/35656-set-ethernet-connection-metered-unmetered-windows-10-a.html
 
https://www.tenforums.com...ates-windows-10-a.html
 
Good luck!

abacab

If you're running Windows 10 Home, there is no supported way to delay the installation of updates. When a feature update is available, it will install in the next window outside Active Hours. You can try various workarounds, such as shutting off the Windows Update service or setting your network connection as metered, but these only briefly postpone the inevitable.
In Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions, you can defer feature updates for up to 16 months after their initial release to the Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted). In addition, you can defer quality updates, including the monthly Patch Tuesday fixes, by up to 30 days.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faq-how-to-manage-windows-10-updates/
 
With that said, I use a combination of the metered network trick, and the MS "wushowhide" utility to keep Win10 updates at bay on my Win10 Home laptop (I use Win10 Pro on my DAW).
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3162-set-wireless-network-metered-non-metered-windows-10-a.html
 
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/35656-set-ethernet-connection-metered-unmetered-windows-10-a.html
 
https://www.tenforums.com...ates-windows-10-a.html
 
Good luck!

Very much appreciated! Info I can trust and use! I had heard about the metered but not the wushowhide approach. It sounds like a song: a-wushowide, a-wushowide...in the jungle, the quiet jungle...
 
My google search found the following, but even from Microsoft, is it a hooey or does it work...I don't trust 'em anymore...
 
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-10-windows-update-keeps-turning-it-self/323c832e-119f-4552-8641-474acbd3dcff

www.tenforums.com  is the best place to look for help (they have an extensive tutorial file).  Several "deeply" knowledgeable users there.  You don't have to be registered/logged in to view the Tutorials or even posts, but you do have to be registered/logged in to post a question or response.
 
 
 
 
 

fireberd
www.tenforums.com  is the best place to look for help (they have an extensive tutorial file).  Several "deeply" knowledgeable users there.  You don't have to be registered/logged in to view the Tutorials or even posts, but you do have to be registered/logged in to post a question or response.
 

Yup, the Admin over there, Shawn Brink, (and some other qualified folks) have written some great Windows tutorials.
 
Tutorial Index: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/

Thanks much for the tenforums link, I will certainly look over all of this tonight, and perhaps they can help me get my old studio DAW pc (win 7) which died after the Fall update along with this pc (my home pc), a few hours earlier. Both had BSOD and I was able to get this one going about a week later but nothing so far for my other studio pc.
 
I've used windows secrets lounge (.com/forums) since the 90s and they have always helped me well, but they now ask a small price for their tutorials and such. Great and helpful group though...

robbyk
 
 
My google search found the following, but even from Microsoft, is it a hooey or does it work...I don't trust 'em anymore...
 
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-10-windows-update-keeps-turning-it-self/323c832e-119f-4552-8641-474acbd3dcff

It's just hooey . . . I tried it out over the last couple of days on  the laptop I use for the net (Win 10 home 64), and it still switches back from being set to 'Disabled' . . . so hooey it is.

Matron Landslide

robbyk
 
 
My google search found the following, but even from Microsoft, is it a hooey or does it work...I don't trust 'em anymore...
 
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-10-windows-update-keeps-turning-it-self/323c832e-119f-4552-8641-474acbd3dcff

It's just hooey . . . I tried it out over the last couple of days on  the laptop I use for the net (Win 10 home 64), and it still switches back from being set to 'Disabled' . . . so hooey it is.

Thanks and fooey on hooey!

robbyk
 
Thanks and fooey on hooey!

Got a rhythm for that rhyme?

abacab

robbyk
 
Thanks and fooey on hooey!

Got a rhythm for that rhyme?

Now that's a great idea, make a YouTube like the guy when the airline killed his guitar. Kind of a Neil Young electric Rockin in the Free World vibe:
 
That's what you told me all along
When you knew it was wrong so
Phooey... on you hooey (buh buh buuuh)
Microsoft!
Phooey...on your hooey (buh buh buuuh)
Microsoft!