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There are two ways of doing this without disabling automatic updates.\u00a0 <\/span>The first way will work on Home, Pro, and Enterprise editions.\u00a0 <\/span>The second method involves the Group Policy Editor and will only work in Pro and Enterprise editions.<\/span><\/p>\n The first solution involves making a registry modification.\u00a0 <\/span>I do not suggest this method since it involves modifying the registry and anything involving modifying the registry is not the best practice, since you can wreck your computer this way.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Open the registry editor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The cleaner solution is to use the group policy editor as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) Optionally you may want to also enable Restart your PC Note: Restarting or shutting down from the start menu doesn\u2019t seem to trigger the install process after this.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two ways of doing this without disabling automatic updates. The first way will work on Home, Pro, and Enterprise editions. The second method involves the Group Policy Editor and will only work in Pro and Enterprise editions. The first solution involves making a registry modification. I do not suggest this method since it … <\/p>\n
\nNavigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WindowsUpdate\\AU<\/b>
\n(If the key doesn\u2019t exist you will need to create it)
\nCreate a new DWORD value called AUOptions<\/b> and enter a value of either 2 or 3.
\n<\/span>(2 = Notify before download)
\n(3 = Automatically download and notify of installation)<\/span>
\nRestart your PC<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNavigate to
\nComputer Configuration \\ Administrative Templates \\ Windows Components \\ Windows Update<\/b>
\nOpen
\nConfigure Automatic Updates<\/b>
\nEnable the policy and make any changes here you want.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nRe-prompt for restart with scheduled installations<\/b>
\nand set the interval to the largest possible value (1440<\/b> which is 24 hours) just so you don\u2019t keep getting the pop up every 10 minutes after it actually does an update.<\/span><\/p>\n
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