How to Stop Store Apps from Updating Automatically in Windows 10
38How to Stop Store Apps from Updating Automatically in Windows 10.
It’s generally a good idea to keep your apps updated, but there are situations where you might not want to. You might be on a metered connection or have a data cap you’re trying not to exceed. Or, you might not want a particular app updated to a new, buggy version. Here’s how to prevent the Microsoft Store from automatically updating apps you’ve downloaded from it.
Windows 10 Pro: We already knew that Windows 10 Home users were going to be forced to install Windows 10 updates from here on out. However, this extends to app updates from the Windows Store as well. If you’re on Windows 10 Pro, here’s how to disable them.
The Microsoft Store app in Windows 10 offers various apps, games, music, movies & TV, and books that users can browse through, purchase, or get for free to download and install for their Microsoft account in Windows 10 PCs and devices.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the automatic download and installation of app updates by Store for your account or all users in Windows 10.
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Microsoft has removed the ability to turn off automatic app updates for Windows 10 Home users. While the OS update requirement makes some sense (Microsoft is the source of those after all), requiring app updates as well seems arbitrarily harsh and could cause some problems if a developer does something nefarious, or even if a new version of app doesn’t work as well as the old one. If you’re on Windows 10 Pro, here’s how to disable this setting:
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).