Windows 10 download security updates only

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 4 years, 3 months ago. Active 4 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. Feature updates are required if you are running Windows 10 Home or Professional. You can only defer updates on Windows 10 Professional for a period of time eventually they will be installed. Feature updates can be defended for 4 months and quality updates can be deferred for a small amount of time. I think Microsoft missed the boat on this one. As an end-user Home or Professional , I still want control over what applications get installed on my computer.

I hate that Microsoft auto-installs anything except for critical updates. There is no explanation from them that will convince me that they have any right to load my computer up with applications that I have to just uninstall, with all the clutter that is left behind anytime you uninstall anything on Windows.

Windows 10 perpetuates a poor application model from earlier Windows OS's and now adds new irritations. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Click Windows Update. For information about the various types of Windows updates, such as critical, security, driver, service packs, and so on, please see the following article. To view other notes and messages, see the Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 update history home page. Changes the default privilege requirement for installing drivers when using Point and Print.

After installing this update, you must have administrative privileges to install drivers. For more information, see KB For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, please refer to the new Security Update Guide website. OpenEncryptedFileRaw will continue to work on all other versions of Windows local and remote. This behavior is expected because we addressed the issue in CVE Note If you cannot use backup software on Windows 7 SP1 and Server R2 SP1 or later after installing this update, contact the manufacturer of your backup software for updates and support.

Reverting Changes. If you are installing this update on a device that is running an edition that is not supported for ESU. For a complete list of which editions are supported, see KB If you have purchased an ESU key and have encountered this issue, please verify you have applied all prerequisites and that your key is activated. For information on activation, please see this blog post. For information on the prerequisites, see the How to get this update section of this article.

Extended support ends as follows:. You must install the updates listed below and restart your device before installing the latest Rollup. Installing these updates improves the reliability of the update process and mitigates potential issues while installing the Rollup and applying Microsoft security fixes.

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