To temporarily stop the device from installing feature updates (like Anniversary or Creators update), you can enable the «
Defer feature updates» option in Windows Update - > Advanced Options.
In either version, you have separate options to
defer feature updates and quality updates.
So, if you switch to the Semi-Annual Channel and
defer feature updates for 365 days, you'll receive updates a year after they appear in the Semi-Annual channel.
In Win10 Pro, you can Defer Upgrades in the Settings app: Start > Settings > Update & security > Advanced options, check the box marked «Defer upgrades» in the Fall Update version 1511, «
Defer feature updates» in the Anniversary Update version 1607.
The option to
defer feature updates is an interesting one, and is only available on Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.
Over the course of several feature updates since the initial release of Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft has tinkered with the interface for
deferring feature updates.
Changing this setting from the «Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)» to «Semi-Annual Channel», previously known as «Current Branch for Business», typically
defers feature updates like the Spring Creators Update for about four months.
That defers feature updates until Microsoft declares them «ready for business deployment,» a milestone that typically occurs about four months after the initial release.
In managed environments and on standalone PCs running Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions, you can do that by
deferring feature updates and scheduling them for manual installation at a time of your choosing.
Not exact matches
If you'd like to put off
feature updates and changes until most testing is done — potentially to test those
updates yourself if you're part of an organization with mission - critical software — then enable the «
Defer upgrades» option.
Option 3 works independently of the
feature update settings and allows you to
defer the monthly cumulative security
updates by up to 30 days.
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Quality
updates may get
deferred by up to 30 days, whereas
feature updates will not get installed for up to 180 days.
When you
defer upgrades on your Windows 10 PC, new
features and upgrades won't download and install on your PC for several months, however, it won't affect the security
updates.
Most of those
features were business - focused, but none was more important than Windows
Update for Business, which gave enterprise administrators the option to delay
updates by up to four weeks and
defer upgrades by up to eight months.
Using Group Policy, you can
defer Quality
Updates by up to 30 days, and
defer Feature Upgrades for up to 180 days using Group Policy or Registry.
Using the pause
feature is essentially the same as using the regular
defer updates feature in the Windows
Update interface except that you can come back to the Local Group Policy Editor and uncheck the box if you'd like to end the pause and get the
updates.
If you want to
defer updates, enter any number up to 180 days in the «After a
feature update is released,
defer receiving it for this many days» box.
Scroll down and use the «
Feature update» and «Quality
update» options under «Choose when
updates are installed» to specify how many days you want to
defer updates for.
You can
defer receiving
feature updates for up to 180 days.
In addition, you can
defer so - called
feature updates (the twice yearly major version upgrades) by about four months by opting to wait until Microsoft declares that
update ready for widespread deployment; you can add up to 365 days of additional deferral time after Microsoft makes a feature update available to your servicing channel in Windows U
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Tucked within the settings app is a new
feature which allows users to
defer incoming Windows
updates, including driver
updates, for up to 35 days, effectively fixing longstanding complaints about how the operating system forces
updates on users.
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