Stop Windows 10 Update Assistant from running

After uninstalling the update assistant, you can also manually create the name of the installation folder -- C:\Windows10Upgrade -- and set its security permissions to full deny on all groups listed there.  The reasoning is, you're robbing the assistant's ability to even reinstall itself, suppressing the assistant for as long as it can't access that folder; i.e., forever.

i totally agree, this is unacceptable, they dont care, they make too much money from spying on you, it doesnt matter if it bricks your PC or wastes your time, they make too much money on it, and for people that dont know, they just throw away their old computer and get another one, its a win win for microsoft at the expense of their customers and everyone knows it.

I followed these steps, and after the third attempt, it worked!  No more daily interruptions that tell me I have to reboot to update (but that won't work).

... until yesterday, when I got another "windows update assistant" popup.  The scheduler and background tasks were still disabled, but yet it still found a way to get through and install itself.

I need a "leave me the heck alone" option for Windows.

First, uninstall the Upgrade Assistant.

Open Control Panel > Programs and Features > Windows 10 Update Assistant

Select it then click Uninstall

Open C:\ drive

Select the Windows10Upgrade folder

Then delete it

That's right, but incomplete.

Once, I deleted the folder C:\windows10upgrade and thought that was it. But some day after Windows 10 just installed the Windows 10 Update Assistant ("the Assistant" after this) again.

Then I set up a rule monitoring program writing files to C:\windows10upgrade, and it let's me trace down to another folder: C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant.

I cannot think of a way to block this process because the command which tried to create this folder is:

C:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V

Therefore I installed a HIPS product, and set another rule which stop from writing to these two folders.

This is a Chinese HIPS product called 火绒博锐, sorry that it doesn't have multi-language support. I believe most HIPS software have this type of customized rules.

And I don't know how to do so just by Windows itself. I've tried to set folder ACL to "Everyone-Deny-Any type of access", doesn't work. Maybe just because it's done by the system itself?

Hello everybody,

One thing that is not clear to me is: If I follow this procedures to remove or block the windows assistant, will this freeze the system to the current settings including the Defender or antivirus will still get updates?