Wednesday, December 16, 2020

How To Stop Windows Update With A .Bat File Stop The: wuauserv



Windows Update wuauserv draining your CPU constantly talking to Microsoft looking for an update?...here is the fix use notepad to create a .bat file. Open notepad copy the text below then save as a .bat file.

To Stop Windows Updates:

sc config wuauserv start= disabled

net stop wuauserv

sc config bits start= disabled

net stop bits

sc config dosvc start= disabled

net stop dosvc

pause

when you see "pause" its done and windows updates are turned off.

Win 10 will restart "wuauserv" itself at some point so run the bat again to turn it off.

To Restart Windows Updates "wuauserv" this is the code:

start-updates.bat:

sc config wuauserv start= auto

net start wuauserv

sc config bits start= auto

net start bits

sc config dosvc start= auto

net start dosvc

pause 

when you see "pause" its done and windows updates are turned on.

The next step: 

Now you can simply right click on stop-updates.bat and select 

“Run as Administrator”

Source: http://sdbr.net/windows-10-update-failure/

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More Info At Link Below:

https://whatsabyte.com/windows/fix-wuauserv-high-cpu-usage/

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