How to Stop Windows Update Without Breaking Defender
The supported way to stop Windows Update is to pause it for up to 35 days. This guide covers the pause, the Group Policy tree that moved, the registry values people get wrong, deferral across a fleet, and the part most guides miss: disabling Windows Update can starve Microsoft Defender of signatures for up to seven days.
Dmytro Koval · Sep 18, 20261,446
