StopUpdates10 has 2 modes:

1. Windows Updates 100% Bulleteproof Hard Block (with Double Protection).

2. Windows Updates Soft Block - Pause Updates until 11/18/2099 with ability update Windows Defender and Windows Store Apps.

Features:

• Stops Windows updates.
• Stops forced upgrades.
• Stops annoying upgrade notifications.
• Restore updates with one-click.
• Pauses updates.
• Disables Windows 7-8 'End of support' and 'End of Service' notifications.

Benefits:

1. Easy to disable and re-enable Windows updates.
2. StopUpdates10 does not delete files, does not change file rights or another destructive actions.
3. StopUpdates10 is lightweight.
4. StopUpdates10 is free of charge.

What's the difference between 'stop updates' and 'pause updates'?

1. Stopping updates prevents downloading and installing any updates.
   It blocks the Windows update service.
2. Pausing updates only block installing, not downloading, updates.
   Microsoft allows you to pause updates for limited number of days and only once.
   You can not pause updates again after resuming.

StopUpdates10 removes limitations for pausing updates:

1. You can pause updates until up to 2099 year.
2. You can pause and resume updates as many times as you want.
3. You can set different pause date and time for Feature updates and for Quality updates.

What's the difference between Feature updates and Quality updates?

Feature update is a new version of Windows. It is installed as an upgrade to the existing version with changing the build number.

Feature update includes new features and updates.

Quality update contains only cumulative updates to the existing version without new features.

StopUpdates10 vs Windows Updates Blocker

Windows 7-8 - Disable "End of Support" & "End of Service" screens

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How StopUpdates10 works?

1. StopUpdates10 creates the policy registry keys to block updates.
   It is for Windows 7-8. Microsoft ignores these policies in the latest Windows 10 versions.
2. StopUpdates10 blocks execution of several processes used for updating, related to Windows Upgrade Assistant, Windows as a Service Medic.
3. StopUpdates10 blocks Windows Update service using an own service: Updates Guard. Also, it blocks Windows Update Medic Service ("WaasMedicSvc"), because the 'Medic' service can restore updates.

StopUpdates10 is safe to use!

StopUpdates10 does not delete files on your system, does not change permissions of Windows registry keys or files.

Updates Guard

Updates Guard is a system service, working in the background.

It polls an activity of Windows update service. If Updates Guard detects the starting (or changing autostart) of Windows Update service (Wuauserv"), Guard will disable it.

Default polling interval is 5 seconds. It may be customized using stopupdates10.ini file.

Updates Guard is started automatically. It takes a little bit of system resources.

You don't need to hold open the StopUpdates10 application.

Your system is automatically protected by Updates Guard.

Take Windows updates under your control!

Download StopUpdates10 - Version: 4.7.2025.0424 (2Mb).

Localized to: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, ChineseTraditional, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese_Meiryo, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian.

Installer and uninstaller are included.

System Requirements

Windows 11/10/8/7 32-bit or 64-bit. Windows Home is supported!

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Freeware (commercial usage is allowed).

No adware/malware/spyware!

• Tested by 72 antiviruses using VirusTotal - stopupdates10.zip Clean (0/61)
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Known Issues!

BitDefender Total security and Checkpoint ZoneAlarm block access to the registry for StopUpdates10!

You can see a message "Updates are partially disabled".

Solution:

1. Stop ZoneAlarm real-time monitoring.
2. Disable updates using StopUpdates10.
3. Activate ZoneAlarm real-time monitoring.

Known issue with Autocad software:

Some people experience a delay in starting Autocad software with disabled Windows updates. The issue may be caused by disabling the BITS service. As a workaround, you can uncheck BITS in the blocked services list.

StopUpdates10 Quick Look

How to uninstall StopUpdates10?

Use a Windows standard way to uninstall applications.

Windows 10

1. Open Windows Start menu.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Apps & Features.
4. Locate StopUpdates10 in the list.
5. Ask 'Yes' if you see Windows 'User Account Control' question:
   Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?
6. Choose 'Uninstall'.

Also, you can open an alternative way to start uninstaller.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\StopUpdates10\unins000.exe"

Note!

Windows update will be automatically restored after uninstall!

Changelog:

April 24 2025
Version 4.7.2025.0424

• Added the notification panel with a progress bar and stop button to control the cleaning up of temporary Windows update files.
• Improved the speed of deleting the temporary files.
• Added the hiding the system tray "restart update" icon.
• Added Turkish translation.

April 3 2024
Version 4.6.2024.0403

• Compatibility with Windows 11 2023H2.
• Fixed issue with not working Pause Updates.
• Fixed issues with Updates Guard.

May 23 2023
Version 4.5.2023.0523

• Added blocking services: PushToInstall, Bits, DoSvc.
  The PushToInstall service automatically restores the Windows Update service after installing update KB5026372.
• Fixed bugs with user-defined services in the Updates Guard service.

March 6 2023
Version 4.0.2023.0306

• Fixed the bug preventing using the "Stay on the Current Feature Update" feature for 20H2 and the newest builds.
• Added the Simplified Chinese translation.

February 14 2023
Version 3.9.2023.0214

• Automatically delete downloaded updates pending to install (SoftwareDistribution/Download).
• Fixed the security issues in the Updates Guard service.

November 29 2022
Version 3.8.2022.1129

• Compatibility with the latest Windows 11 (22H2) and Windows 10.
• Improved installation StopUpdates Premium.
• Fixed bug in the StopUpdates Premium.
• Updated language translations.

July 12 2022
Version 3.7.2022.712

• New: blocking Windows 11 upgrade full screen ads.
• Compatibility with latest Windows 11 (21H2), Windows 10.

February 4 2022
Added Romanian language

Version 3.6.2021.705

• Compatibility with Windows 11 (Build:22000), Windows 10 (21H1).
• New: block feature updates using TargetReleaseVersionInfo Windows policy.
• Fixed the bug in SU10Guard service: "A timeout was reached while waiting for the SU10Guard service to connect". Now SU10Guard will start its starts as delayed. But pay attention that the status of StopUpdates Guard in the main program will be shown as "disabled" until the service starts. Usually, the service starts within two minutes after boot.
• Command-line option: "/disable" is available only in the Premium version because of using it by malware.
• New Premium option: Hide Promo. It hides the promo offers.

Version 3.5.115

• Compatibility with Windows 10 (2104).
• Added new process to block: UPFC.EXE, related to WaaSMedic.
• Redesigned.

Version 3.1.101

• Added Turkish translation.
• Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japan, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian.
• Fixed small bugs.

Version 3.0.100

• New feature: Double Protection Service Settings (via registry permissions and using Updates Guard).
• Disable Additional Services (selected by a user).
• Disabled service: USOSVC.
• New: Premium version.
• Pause or resume updates using a command line.

Version 2.5.70

• Blocked new process: WaasMedicAgent.exe.
• Removed blocking for dismHost.exe, because of issues with normal work of DISM.

Version 2.5.61

• Added Catalan translation.
• Updated Japanese translation.
• Fixed small bugs.

Version 2.5.60

• Added Chinese Traditional translation.
• Fixed small bugs.

Version 2.5.59

• Added "/defender" option for checking Windows Defender updates from command line interface.
• Added Polish translation.

Version 2.5.58

• Fixed bug with Windows Defender updating.
• Added Bulgarian translation.

Version 2.5.57

• Updates Japanese, Italian, Greek, Korean translations.

Version 2.5.56

• Fixed small bugs.
• Updates Spanish, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Czech, Hungarian translations.

Version 2.5.55

• New feature: Pause updates until 2099 year.
• New feature: Disable Windows 7-8 'End of support', 'End of Service' notifications, Get Windows 10 (GWX).
• New Feature: Update Windows Defender signatures.

Version 2.0.52

• Disabled Windows 7 End-of-Service screen during startup (KB4493132).
• Updated Spashish Translation.

Version 2.0.51

• Added Ukrainian, Arabic translations.
• Updated Czech, Portuguese Brazilian.
• Fixed a small bug.

Version 2.0.50

• Added blocking of Windows Update Medic service (WaasMedicSvc).
  Windows Update Medic can reactivate update service.
  StopUpdates10 blocks "WaasMedicSvc" automatically using Updates Guard service.
  Windows service manager cannot disable "WaasMedicSvc".
  StopUpdates10 is able to do it using direct registry change.
• Fixed bug with incorrect checking of the service state.
• Fixed bug with uninstalling.
• New web site.

Version 2.0.34

• Added Japanese (Meiryo Font) translation.
• Updated previous Japanese translation.

Version 2.0.33

• Updated Japanese translations.

Version 2.0.32

• Updated German translation.
• Updated Korean translation.
• Updated Chinese translation.
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Version 2.0.31

• Updated Greek translation.
• Updated Czech translation.
• Updated BrazilianPortuguese translation.
• Updated Italian translation.

Version 2.0.30

• Added Updates Guard.
• Added Hungarian translation.

Version 1.10.19

• Added Greek translation.
• Redesigned.

Version 1.10.18

• Added Czech translation.

Version 1.10.17

• Added Korean translation.

Version 1.10.16

• Added Italian translation.

Version 1.10.15

• Added translation to German language.

Version 1.10.14

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Version 1.10.13

• Added French translation.

Version 1.10.12

• Added Spanish translation.

Version 1.10.11

• Added "Chinese Traditional" localization.

Version 1.10.10

1. Fine-tune settings for power users. Open main menu, "File", "Settings" to reach it.
2. Create Localization Kit. You can localize StopUpdate10 in a 10 minutes.
3. Included localization to the Russian language.

Version 1.07

1. Fixed a bug with blocking updates on some Windows builds.
2. Updated design.

Automate using StopUpdates10

You may use StopUpdates10 in your batch files or scripts.

Check that you use it with Administrator account.

Disable Windows updates:

StopUpdates10.exe /disable

Enable Windows updates:

StopUpdates10.exe /restore

Pause updates:

StopUpdates10.exe /pause

This will pause updates until 11.11.2099

You can set your date:
StopUpdates10.exe /pause yyyymmdd
yyyymmdd - year, month, day

Example:
StopUpdates10.exe /pause 20301231

Resume updates

StopUpdates10.exe /resume

Lozalization

Already translated:

1. Russian
2. Chinese Traditional - Thank you to Danfong Hsieh!
3. Spanish - Thank you to Pedro Luis Larrosa!
4. French - Thank you to Xypno!
5. Brazilian Portuguese - Thank you to WNantes!
6. German - Thank you to Karsten!
7. Italian - Thank you to Paolo!
8. Korean - Thank you to 김영찬!
9. Czech - Thank you to Filip!
10. Greek - Thank you to Geogeo!
11. Hungarian - Thank you to Balogh Béla!
12. Japanese - Thank you to Kumarinecity_Kisa!
13. Ukrainian - Thank you to Denis Zabiyako
14. Arabic - Thank you to lculator Zaloom
15. Bulgarian - Thank you to Georgi N. Cvetanov
16. Polish - Thank you to Andrzej Rudnik
17. Catalan - Thank you to Joan Montané
18. Romanian - Thank you to Claudiu Rascol
19. Uzbek - Thank you to Muhiddin Kubaev
20. Turkish - Thank you to Salih Durdu
21. Croatian - Thank you to Jozo Marić

How to translate StopUpdates10 to your language?

1. Unzip StopUpdates10Translalaton.zip to any folder.
2. Refer to "how_to_translate.txt" manual for instructions.

Download Translation Kit