How to block the Windows 10 spring update from installing

[John Gray]

How to block the Windows 10 spring update, version 1803, from installing
by Woody Leonhard is a comprehensive and interesting account of how to delay the Windows 10 version 1803 Spring Update from being installed until you want it to happen.

[HansV]

Comprehensive, yes, but why interesting?

[stuck]

I have Win 10 Pro 1709, without any of the grief that Woody has often proclaimed. Even so I am interested in deferring the update to 1803 at least for a short time. However, when as stated in the article that John links to, I do:

Step 1. Click Start > Settings > Update & Security.

I do NOT:

...see the Advanced Options pane.

Instead I see the first screenshot in my thread about the GPE, see Post=229542.



Ken

[HansV]

Do you have a specific reason for deferring the update? Microsoft usually spreads out these updates over several weeks, so chances are you won't get it immediately anyway.

[John Gray]

Ken

This is what I see:

WindowsUpdate.png

If you click on the red-circled option, you get the pane (pain?!) of which Woody speaks.

The reason for deferring getting such a hefty update is so that Microsoft can correct all the errors found by the Early Adopters before you get to install it... Woody deals with the matter quite comprehensively, I thought.

[stuck]

..If you click on the red-circled option...

Where's my hammer? Oh, there it is

[stuck]

Do you have a specific reason for deferring the update?...

No. It's just that I've always been slow to apply Windows updates, e.g. my little Win 7 Starter netbook has only just had the March patches applied and won't get the April ones until just before the May ones come out. Maybe that's foolish in this day and age of security breaches but I don't like the idea of being a beta tester for Windows Patches. I'd rather wait until the patches are patched before I apply them.

Ken

[stuck]

..If you click on the red-circled option...

Where's my hammer? Oh, there it is

I might have been a bit premature with the hammer.

Having clicked on Advanced Options I do see the various options to defer things BUT some are greyed out:

winUpdatesAdvOptions.jpg

Doesn't that imply there are some active GPOs? In which case, how do I find said GPO in the GPE?

NB don't answer those questions in this thread, use the one I started about the GPE, i.e. this one.

Ken