Recent content by BeadWizard

Some good(?) news, perhaps. Windows wanted to do something again, but this time it, gasp, allowed the option to change the time. I set it for a time I'm unlikely to be using the computer at all, when it's likely to be off, actually. Worked great...when I shut down it said to "Please wait,"...

Thanks so much. I'm sorry, I should have made myself clearer. I don't want to stop the updates. What I want to do is, as in Windows Vista, have the option to delay updates. When I use Vista, I can choose to postpone an update for 10 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours (or...

I have a laptop that uses Windows 10 and I hate it. Everything is a learning curve, difficult to do, and now I'm ready to throw this thing out the window and wave "Bye-bye!" because I can't find a way to turn off automatic updates. I just wasted over two hours between waiting for an update...