Disable Windows Update

So let's just say you can see updates working right there.

I'm going to show you exactly what I did to disable it this time.

So we're going to actually launch into WinUtil.

We're going to go to the Updates tab.

Now, this is going to be the version of today.

So if you check your versioning, Just go about.

You can see it's going to be 25.09.05 for the version today.

If you're on an older version, just know you need to update or download the new one.

Disable updates.

Not recommended.

It leaves you open to security risks.

You guys know, yada, yada, yada.

We'll hit enter.

First off, it only used to disable bits in Windows Update service.

Now we're adding about three or four new services in.

We're also unregistering the DLLs, meaning if Windows tries to repair itself, it's going to fail.

So we're going to take those essential DLLs for those Windows Update services to launch and rename them.

We're also going to go through and clean up any downloaded update files.

This is the software distribution folder within Windows.

Any updates that are pending, let's say you have that really nasty one, you're like, oh, God, I hope it doesn't install, but it's just sitting there downloaded.

We'll have no worries.

After you do this, it will go through and clear out those files.

So this actually probably is good to do from time to time regardless.

On top of that, after it finishes clearing out the update files, we're going to go to Task Scheduler.

I went through Task Scheduler and looked for any update-related tasks, orchestrators, and those types of things that could also repair update, and run updates.