

That way you can tell us what went wrong. If you remain resolute in your belief that Microsoft’s way is the best way, then by all means, I urge you to install all of the updates as soon as they’re available. Their more cautious brethren sit and watch, listen to the screams of pain, and wait for the all-clear. In either case, a significant group of first-round patchers get hit. Sometimes they come in Monthly Rollup Previews - a heinous practice. Sometimes the fixes come in second or third cumulative updates. We’ve seen the same pattern repeat itself almost every month since the beginning of the year: The first round of Microsoft security patches (notably including Win10 patches) introduce bugs, while subsequent rounds of patches each month squash most of them. Trust me, you’ll want to get some popcorn.August 2018 was a relatively innocuous patching month, although the final resolution to the August problems didn’t appear until late Friday night just as the month was coming to a close - on a three-day weekend in the US.

To disable/enable automatic updating, locate the following registry key:

If you need to modify a machine remotely or disable updates on a large number of machines, you’ll probably want to disable scheduled updates in the registry. Congratulations! Your box-unchecking skills are impeccable. Uncheck the box “Enable monthly check for updates”.

Open System Update and then click Schedule updates under the “Advanced” section. If you need to disable System Update scheduled updates on a single machine, you can easily do this manually.
