How to Shut Down Without Installing Updates on Windows 10
46How to Shut Down Without Installing Updates on Windows 10.
You’re working on your laptop and you realize that it’s time to go. So, you shut down your laptop, but Windows insists on updating. Ten minutes later, you’re still waiting for Windows to update and you’re going to be late. There is a way around this: a way to can shut down immediately even when there are updates waiting to install.
Here’s the simplest method: make sure the desktop has focus by clicking any empty area of the desktop or pressing Windows+D on your keyboard. Then, press Alt+F4 to access the Shut Down Windows dialog box. To shut down without installing updates, select “Shut down” from the drop-down list.
Windows has always provided updates in order to give more or better features to its users, or if need to patch up bugs and security risks come up. All that is good, but some people usually have their computer on for most of the time. For example, waiting for over 30 minutes for your PC to update during office hours can be a big inconvenience. There are other times that you might also need to shut down or reboot quickly and updates will only slow this down. Your computer might also be acting funny forcing the need to reboot and it will be a bit risky to run updates at that time. No point in making a bad problem worse.
In Windows 10, you will get a notification about the update being downloaded and prepared for installation and ask you to restart to apply the updates. You can then choose whether to restart or postpone the updates. The other options for restarting or shutting down your PC include shutting or restarting with updates or shutting or restarting without updates. Those shutdown/restart options are available in all editions of Windows 10, and have been there over a year now since a few builds before November Update version 1511. It’s the nature of the update that determines if the option to shutdown/restart without updating is shown or not. Some updates require an immediate restart, some not.
With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft moved to update and maintenance concept to the principle of WaaS (Windows as a Service) which is based on the principle of SaaS (Software as a Service). With the implementation of this, Microsoft kind of forced Windows Updates to not only be downloaded on the users’ machines but also install them while we shutdown Windows 10 and sometimes even seed them to other users. This seeding concept took off much load from the Microsoft servers that would provide these Windows Updates to the users earlier. Installing these updates can be tedious for the users are it takes a lot of precious time from the users working hours and actually, people criticize this kill of their productivity.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).