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Pausing Updates in Windows 10 version 1703...
I have the Creator Update on a few of my systems (it still wont work on my Laptop, which I am not happy about). On the systems that are running Creator Update, I never noticed an option to Pause either. I also have Home Edition.
I just did some searching and found that the Pause option is only available in Pro, Education, and Enterprise versions. Link below to other features if you'll want to read em.
I have the Creator Update on a few of my systems (it still wont work on my Laptop, which I am not happy about). On the systems that are running Creator Update, I never noticed an option to Pause either. I also have Home Edition.
I just did some searching and found that the Pause option is only available in Pro, Education, and Enterprise versions. Link below to other features if you'll want to read em.
I was just going to post about this; you beat me to it. :) I ran a search too and found that the Home edition lacks the ability to pause updates. Does Microsoft think Home users are somewhat mentally slow?? Has Cortana been reporting me to her leaders?
I guess I should have searched a little more thoroughly. :smileyfrustrated:
With that said, and with the initial question asked, I doubt that I will ever use the ability to pause my updates. It was only a question of curiosity as to why one of my computers would show a different ability than the other when they have the exact same version of Windows 10. Well, not the EXACT same. My laptop (a Dell) originally had Windows 8 Pro OEM preloaded and was upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro, then Windows 10 Pro and then to the present version of Windows 10 Pro. All of them were done with the free upgrades. My desktop (built by me), on the other hand, started with a retail version of Windows 7 Pro, then upgraded with a retail version of Windows 8 Pro, then the free upgrades from that. I wonder if the difference between the allowable days to pause is due to the one being OEM and the other being retail.
In the end, though, like I said, I'll probably never use that ability, anyway. I've never used the ability to set my laptop to a metered connection with WiFi, nor have I done so with the new ability to do the same with my desktop and a direct LAN connection. I've never been close enough in my data use and allotment to need to worry about it.
From what I have read the pauseing feature should be 35 days. It didnt say anything about anything less. It seams like a stupid feature to begin with, WHY would someone pause updates for 35 days!! From what it sounds after the set amount of days it will download the updates. Just sounds stupid. Maybe you should do a post on Microsoft's community to find why your one system is only 7 days. I know I would probably never use the feature either but dont sound right for it to be different. I would imagine it would count down the days if you pause the updates, but I dont believe you had them paused, plus you havent had 1703 installed 28 days.
Actually, I did just that, and, oddly enough, someone from Microsoft said it was strange that my laptop was showing 35 days as they should all show 7 days. When I brought up the fact that just about every single article written on the ability to pause updates references the 35 day amount and that their 7 day claim was spurious, I never recevied a reply.
I think the idea of it being 35 days is because most data capped services have 30 day data allotments. One doesn't have to wait the 35 days, but can pause them and then choose to perform the updates at any time within that time period.
With this said, something just dawned on me. I haven't seen any distinction as to whether pausing updates pauses the download of the update, or just the installation of it. If the latter, then the ability to do so wouldn't make any difference for someone on a capped service as it would use the data by downloading the updates and parking them for installation at a later date. It would only be an advantage for people who want to wait to install an update for whatever reason, whether fear of the updates causing problems and they want to wait to see what they do for others, or wanting to wait so they can perform a full backup before installing the updates. Or some other reason.
"I've never used the ability to set my laptop to a metered connection with WiFi, nor have I done so with the new ability to do the same with my desktop and a direct LAN connection."
I tried and it's an annoying feature, because many of the apps (including the antivirus app, for dog's sake), will pop up messages saying "we can't update this app because you're on a metered connection." Well, gee, then let the malware assault begin. I'll get some rocks.
I randomly check for updates and do the anti-virus updates when they show if no other updates are available. If there are other updates, I open Windows Defender and download the updates from the program its self. This only downloads the update for Defender and no others. I am not sure if you are still able to do the update within the new Defender program in Creator Update (1703).
I also got details from someone where I can set a Scheduled Task to have ONLY Windows Defender update at a certain time each day. Only thing with this is it only allowed me to do update at one specific time each day (I tried other settings but from what I noticed they didnt work) So if there are multiple updates in a day or an update after the set Scheduled Task you wont get the update til the next day. But this way at least Defender is being updated daily instead of not at all.
