After some minutes you get the infamous message:

It doesn’t matter if you press “Restart Later”, it will reappear in some minutes to check if you changed your mind…

If you didn’t leave it running on the background, this would be the message:

It’s all the same…

The solution is very simple, you just have to run the command “net stop wuauserv” from Start->Run or from a console. This will shutdown the Windows Update service ’till the next time the computer starts…

C:\>net stop wuauserv
The Automatic Updates service is stopping.
The Automatic Updates service was stopped successfully.

This is also useful if you want to get rid of the shield icon which tells you there are updates to be installed…

If, for whatever reason (I don’t dare to ask), you want to re-start the Windows Update service in the current session, you can run “net start wuauserv“…

C:\>net start wuauserv
The Automatic Updates service is starting.
The Automatic Updates service was started successfully.

I hope this gives you some peace…

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