

Now, select every file present inside the Software Distribution folder and hit these key combination on your keyboard: Shift + Delete. Make sure that you replace the drive letter to the one with where Windows 10 is installed on your PC.

Now copy and paste the following commands one by one in the Command Prompt console and hit Enter. Start by hitting the WINKEY + X combinations and select Command Prompt (Admin) in order to launch Command Prompt with Administrator Privileges. Non-critical updates are the ones released twice every year bringing new features.Ĭritical Updates need to be installed immediately as they are downloaded whereas the feature updates need not be installed immediately and can be postponed. Critical Updates are the once those are released on the second Tuesday of every month or termed as Patch Tuesday. And the delivery of other features, visual changes come under the category of Non-critical updates. They are either Critical Update and Non-critical updates. The security updates, bug fixes and patches that are delivered to Windows 10 come under the category of Critical Updates. Windows Updates downloads two types of updates. Shutdown Windows 10 without installing any Updates 1] Clear SoftwareDistribution Folder Today, we are going to check out two easy methods by which we can skip this installation of updates and continue working without interruption. Installing these updates can be tedious for the users are it takes a lot of precious time from the users working hours and actually, people criticize this kill of their productivity. This seeding concept took off much load from the Microsoft servers that would provide these Windows Updates to the users earlier. With the implementation of this, Microsoft kind of forced Windows Updates to not only be downloaded on the users’ machines but also install them while we shutdown Windows 10 and sometimes even seed them to other users.

With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft moved to update and maintenance concept to the principle of WaaS ( Windows as a Service) which is based on the principle of SaaS ( Software as a Service).
