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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.
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.
"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. "
You've baffled them, GabeU. LOL
What I don't understand is WHY they don't just give everyone the ability to pause. Why is it included in Pro and Enterprise and not in Home? It just seems silly.
It's also silly to not want to update the machine. These days you have to keep your computer up to date at all times, or disconnect it from the Internet.
