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Disabling Windows Automatic Updates

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Written by
Mark Varnas

Why should you care about Windows automatic updates?

Windows updates are set to a non-optimal setting.

Updates can start downloading at an unpredictable time and cause hard to trace performance issues.

How can I check them?

  1. Go to Start, and search for “Windows Update settings“.
  1. Go to “Choose how updates get installed“.
  1. Check if Never check updates (not recommended) is selected.

How to fix them?

  1. Change it to “Never check for updates (not recommended)”.
  2. Then periodically, during the maintenance window, run Win Updates and reboot.

The best environments do this on a scheduled basis every month.

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Mark Varnas
Founder | CEO | SQL Veteran
Hey, I'm Mark, one of the guys behind Red9. I make a living performance tuning SQL Servers and making them more stable.

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