Don't want to know anything about the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? Follow these steps to prevent your device from updating

Windows 10 May 2019 Update is almost here. There are only a few days left to receive an update that will arrive loaded with news, some of them quite profound. However, you may not be interested in upgrading your equipment, at least initially. Something that we can achieve, for example, by disable automatic updates in Windows 10

At the time we saw how it was not a good idea to immediately update our PC when Microsoft releases an update (well, Microsoft and any manufacturer).Let a few days go by to see how it really works, if there are bugs, important _bugs_ and not acting like guinea pigs is usually the idea For that and to achieve it, let's go Let's see how to turn off automatic updates in Windows 10.

Steps to follow

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To do this we go to the Start menu and write the command services in the dialog box. msc (without the quotes). It is about looking for a process, in this case Windows Update. We will see a more or less extensive list in which we must look for the option Windows Update"

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Once we have located it, click on it to access a new section with more options.In the new window we will see several tabs in the upper zone, but we are only interested in the call General and in it we set the option Startup Type to Disabled."

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Click on the Apply button to apply the changes and restart the computer. From that moment on, updates will not arrive automatically and we will have to go to Windows Update to make our computer update."

Other options

We can also try to pause the updates for a certain time. And in this case we have more or less extensive options depending on whether we use Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro.

In the case of having Windows 10 Home we can configure active hours and choose a specific date and time to install the updates, Yes, within the following week. It is about determining the time we want in which Windows 10 finishes installing the updates. Although they have been downloaded, they will not be installed until we tell you to.

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To do this we must go to Configuration Panel and enter Update and security . In the right area we look for the Windows Update option and then we enter Restart options."

The system will allow us to schedule a time for for Windows 10 to finish installing updates within the next week.

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If, on the contrary, we have Windows 10 Pro, the options are more extensive. The steps are basically the same. We go to Configuration Panel and enter Update and security and then _click_ on Windows Update . The difference is that now we will click on Advanced options Here we can from pausing them, to choosing when they will be installed, with a term of up to one year. "

Once inside, we will see how the system lets us choose between postponing updates or pausing updates.With the first option we can delay them between 1 and 365 days With the second option, pause, the update will be postponed by 35 daysand the panel will show you the date these will resume. In addition, as an alert, the message in the lower area will alert us when the updates will resume again.