How permanently stop windows 10 force updates

The only way to stop the updates is to disconnect from the Internet so the system can't receive them (this makes Windows 10 work the same as iPad, iPhone, tablets, Xbox, PlayStation, and other consumer electronic devices).  This is why Windows 10 is a continuous service, not a one-time product.  If you don't agree to the updates, you actually aren't legally allowed to use the system. You don't own Windows, you license the temporary restricted rights to use it. Those are the license terms of contract, and updates are required.  Your only alternative is to use another product instead.

We can help you solve any problem you have at all to get your system working properly, but there's no "off switch" for updates, no matter what you do.

Shawn "Cmdr" Keene | Microsoft MVP - Windows Insider,

The Issue I have is I have a lap top that I do presentations on. Sometime we have one shot a a presentation and can't change that. Windows doesn't allow us to schedule a time when its convenient for us, the user. We also don't have 90 minutes when we are in another office or on the go and we are instructed not to turn off during an update.

We have rights too. How will you fix this. Does Congress need to step in?

Thank you, 

Oliver Sena

Absolutely BS. I have spent the last week fixing my laptop as a result of forced windows 10 updates. MY onboard keyboard died, my trackpad was not responsive. MY HDMI and graphics drivers were out of synch (APU and Discreet on the boaord graphics card) my USB drivers were hit or miss if they would function. At one point I was reduced to a plug&Play mouse and an on-screen virtual keyboard to get into recovery boot mode. If not for Google providing me 100+ GB of storage I would have been screwed b/c on my reset ALL of my files were corrupted in the reset process. 

7 Days ago everything was working perfectly fine. A forced update to the latest 18xx April windows 10 and everything failed. I am now stuck racing against the clock to figure out a way to make sure windows cannot break my computer again. I am a student and work remote, my computer is my life without it I fail classes and do not earn an income.

1 week of pay gone. 1 week of assignments failed. 

This is on windows, I will not allow updates to continue. I consider this breach of contract and false advertising on their part. Planned obsolescence and collusion with hardware/system manufacturers. Unforgivable and unbelievable.

 That's really horrible. Sorry to hear that your situation is so bad. I have heard people at work describing similar issues, and it seems the big push for 'accelerated updates' has also caused problems with some of the enterprise versions of Windows in my office. 

In my case, I have found my machine hung up on the ASUS logo splash screen on several occasions when returning home, and although I have spoken with MS tech support over the phone, they simply suggested that I disable the Windows Update service; however, I have found that Windows is somehow forcing the updates anyway (perhaps one of their aggressive updates also installed a service to turn the Windows Update service back on after disable it?)... Windows has seemed a bit clunky to me in the past, but all of this nonsense needs to change immediately or I might consider selling my car so I can buy a Mac, or finally delve deeper into Linux and hope that it's compatible with all of the software that I use on a daily basis. Probably just buy a Mac.

Yet again after delaying and not restarting my work laptop for months a **** Windows feature update has crept through, now my system won't boot up and keeps saying the pc didn't start correctly. So now at the start of my work day 2 hours have been wasted waiting for a forced update to install which it hasn't yet again, so for the rest of my work day I'll be resetting my laptop hopefully i haven't lost my data and then reinstalling all the legend i use to actually do my job that i get paid for!! I'm surprised companies haven't tried sueing Microsoft for repeated wasted working days!! How about you go back to the good old days were the use can actually decide not to install updates until they have got the ok from their laptop/computers manufacture saying they've bench tested it and with these patches the update will work. Rather then continuously forcing **** feature updates that make a screen have a pretty picture or a new font and God knows what else they tinker with which makes systems crash drivers fail etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

While the MVPs have a point they also need to listen to people's complaints more sympathetically. 

I am sympathetic.  These things usually go well, for hundreds of millions upon millions of PCs.  When you have a billion users, even a "once in a million" problem happens 1000 times a day.  And honestly, they probably can't ever hope to achieve such high odds. These aren't Macs where they all have identical hardware/drivers in a uniform fleet. This is relying on a great stack of conditions, from OEM to now (with the recent Spectre/Meltdown fiasco) you antivirus claiming (by reg key) they are ready to support the security mitigations.

At the end of it, I want to get someone from "I can't use my computer at all" to "Good, it works perfectly" as fast as possible.  A lot of times, that means grabbing a spare USB "thumb drive stick" and installing the latest version (roughly 20 minutes) and your favorite software (hour or two, less for most consumers).  Is it a pain in the neck? Sure. But it takes a lot less time than spending days/weeks struggling with great difficulty, and has great benefits to boot.

And there's a tons of ways to achieve this, but it really helps to use something like Windows File History, Carbonite, OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc.  Because now I can hit "factory reset" on my Surface, wait 8 minutes, login, and I'm back to a fully-restored system but without losing a single file/preference/bookmark/etc.  Sure that means I need to reinstall 3 or 4 things, but in less time than a single lunchbreak I (and anyone) should always be able to either factory-reset their PC or even migrate to an entire new one.  Businesses have been doing this for decades:  you can just buy a new PC or tell an employee to sit down at a new one in another building, but all their preferences/files/programs are already there.  Your computer is not a special snowflake these days, you aren't tied to it, and you don't need to spend days/weeks trying to fix an issue when a near-immediate resolution exists.  I agree you shouldn't have to do it, but if you live in such a way that you are prepared for it, much like insurance, it sure helps.

I and thousands of other MVPs are flying to Seattle this coming Sunday and Monday to spend a week at Microsoft - we are your advocates. And I'm in no way suggesting you should always jump to a reset as a solution (that'd be ridiculous!), but I want to get someone from "broken" to "perfectly fixed" (and even better, "fully updated") in a few hours, not days or weeks or months (and without spending a penny, no one should ever have to pay to fix their PC).

That would be incorrect.  If you pay for Windows 7 or 8.1, you can stay on it.

My best advice, would be to put the installation files on a USB stick, and directly install the newest available version possible.