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With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. And yes, Windows will remember this setting for each individual network, so you can disconnect from that network and reconnect all you like.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Windows will automatically download updates when you connect your device to an unmetered network, or when you set the network it's connected to as unmetered again. So, if you don't want Windows 10 or Windows 11 automatically downloading updates on your home network connection, just set it as a metered connection. However, you can set any connection as a metered connection.

Windows will automatically set certain types of connections - cellular data connections, for example - as metered. When you set a connection as ' metered,' Windows won't automatically download updates on it. Related: What You Need to Know About Windows Update on Windows 10 Prevent Automatic Downloading of Updates on a Specific Connection Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 have access to group policy and registry settings for this, but even Home editions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 give you a way to stop updates from automatically downloading. Windows Update really wants to automatically update on Windows 10. You can take some control over this and have Windows install updates on your schedule, but these options are hidden. Windows 10 and 11 PCs automatically check for updates and install any updates they find.

Download the last version for windows PreventTurnOff 3.31