How to stop W10 from starting updates during gaming?

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Just fired up Diablo 3 and a few minutes in I'm lagging out like crazy. Turns out W10 has decided to just go ahead and download what seems to be a massive update, thus making it impossible to play said game as it's currently sat there using all of my available bandwidth.

Is anybody else seriously ****** off with this and, more importantly, does anyone know how to stop this POS from doing this in the future?
 
I don't mind the updates, it's the fact that it always starts to automatically download them when I'm using the system that's ******* me off. Not to mention the fact that it's sucking all the bandwidth so I can't even go and watch stuff on TV catchup services either.

Surely Microsoft should have had it run a check first to see if something else was intensively using the CPU or internet before initiating these downloads.
 
I'm on 10 N Pro but have disable updates for 35 days but also the option to set "active hours" where it won't do them. Not sure if that's in home though.
 
Yeah, was gonna say can you not set active hours, or does it still download stuff even then?

What about manually checking for updates before you play? Pita but it'll save some of the frustration when you're mid game.
 
Might be that the PC isn't on enough during inactive hours tbh, it'll only hold off so long these days.

Wonder if editing the hosts file and screwing with MS server addresses would put it off. Then you could just replace that file when you wanted to grab them. Never done it..
 
Stop and disable the windows update service. Only run it when you want to update.

You can do it in services.msc or commands:

net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start= disabled (or auto to re-enable)
 
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Despite some of the stick I got (completely wrongly) in the Windows 10 thread about not liking change, etc. I was one of the first to try Windows 10 - with it installed on multiple PCs and 2x VMs and suffice to say I've put everything I possibly can back on Windows 7 or 8 the only devices I have on 10 now except a couple of Atom Z8750 tablets which only have Windows 10 driver support :(

-Failed updates, incredibly slow updates and/or lots of oddities after updates
-Start menu or explorer not infrequently become unresponsive often only resolved by reinstalling
-OS deciding to do things for itself despite lacking real life contextual awareness - whether that is background processes causing stutter or restarting of its own accord, etc.
-Stupid implementation of updates - I mean who the **** has such a shuttered life they think people have a constant 9-5 seven days a week routine i.e. active hours
-Pitiful lack of attention to how the OS works on portable devices meaning you can get stuck on "don't turn off your PC" while your battery is draining, etc.
-While subjective personally I think it looks ugly as **** and the monotony and inconsistency of the visual elements and the clutter of stuff like controls in explorer fatiguing when used for long hours compared to most alternative OSes - even most flavours of Linux look less amateur and less like they UI was thrown together by random people on their weekends, etc. these days.

Most of this has been repeatedly fed back on the hub on insider builds, etc. but ignored - MS only listens to what they want to hear - shame because its a potentially good OS let down by a lot of poor execution and general unreliability.
 
You can set your Ethernet connection to be metered and tell Windows not to download over a metered connection, it requires a registry hack, but it's relatively straightforward.
 
Disable updates and have a link to the setting on desktop.

Have to say win10 is the most unstable windows I've used since before XPSP1.

Had multiple failed boots, corrupted mbr, bsod, awful.

I don't update drivers or the os anymore otherwise I run the failed boot corrupted mbr gauntlet.
 
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