You don’t. Microsoft made it godawful hard – damn near impossible – to avoid loading Windows 10.

The way that I have found to stop these updates is to turn OFF Windows Firewall. Most of these updates require Firewall to be on; if it isn’t, then they can’t install. The downside, however, is that your PC is a little less safe because firewall isn’t protecting you. So it’s a tradeoff.

In the Advanced Update Settings you can “defer” updates for a few months, and then tell the thing to let you know when updates are ready instead of automagically updating for you.

I haven’t seen more than that. I’m in the middle of an unrelated updates-issue with my kid’s laptop, and I’m about to take a hammer to the sonofabitch.

Windoze 10 has been specifically designed to force people to accept updates. It’s one of the reasons so many large businesses are still using Win7 (as I am). A single bad update could take their whole network offline and cost them millions. No one should be using Win10. It’s an evil, malicious, intrusive, obnoxious, invasive piece of malware designed to seize control of your computer and force you to do whatever M$ has decided will bring them the most profit and control.

My recommendation is to roll back to Win7 or, barring that, make the switch to *nix. Windoze is no longer useful for anyone with a PC (or a brain).

@Seek I don’t see that option under Advanced Windows Update Settings. I just see:

“Give me updates for other Microsot products when I update Windows.”
“Use my sign in info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update.”
“Updates from more than one place.”

and various privacy violations that don’t really have anything to do with updates.