How To Disable Windows Update in Windows 10 Technical Preview

Step 1

First open Group Policy Editor (Go to Run and type “gpedit.msc” and press Enter).

Step 2

In Group Policy Editor scroll to the following location:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update.

Now click on Configure Automatic Updates, a new window will open. Click on Enabled button and then change update setting to 5-Allow Local admin to choose setting, click Apply and then OK.

Step 3

Now after doing above process, you can change Windows Update setting in Control Panel.

Now you can see in the above screenshot that there is no “Never Install Updates” option. You can only set to “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them or not”, but it will keep you reminding all the time about widows update.
But don’t worry there exist another method to permanently disable Automatic Updates. Now let’s try the other method.

Step 1

Open Registry Editor (Goto Run and type regedit and press Enter). In Registry Editor follow this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/WindowsUpdate/AutoUpdate

Right-Click on AUOptions and click Modify and set it’s value to “1“.

Step 2

Changing the above value to “1” will set Windows Update Setting to Never Install Updates. Now your Windows will not eat up your bandwidth and you can surf the internet in better way.