If you’re using the Professional, Enterprise, or Education editions of Windows 10 and want to disable automatic updates and reboots, I’ll walk you through it below. With previous versions of Windows, you could change updates to “Download and Notify”, but Microsoft has hidden this option in Windows 10.
1) Open the Run command (Win + R), in it type: gpedit.msc and press Enter
2) Navigate to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
3) Open this and change the Configure Automatic Updates setting to “2 – Notify for download and notify for install”
4) Open the Settings app (Win + I) and navigate to: Update and Security > Windows Updates. Click “Check for updates” which applies the new configuration setting
5) Restart
