Prevent "We've got an update for you" pop-up


hellothere

hellothere

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Hello
I have been trying for a while to find a way to prevent the fullscreen-intruding Windows update pop-up as pictured below.
"We've got an update for you" and three buttons: Restart Now, Another Time, and OK.
Windows presents this annoying distraction while I am concentrating on something and typing, where I sometimes immediately hit the spacebar and accidentally dismiss it. This last time, I was watching a movie and during a pivotal moment (the music stops and the characters go silent) "We've got an update for you" pops up.
I'm starting to feel that kind of paranoia in which the expectation of an interruption at any time becomes itself an interruption.
So far I have followed the steps in this article: Turn off windows update pop up window - Microsoft Q&A
All update notification related settings in Settings are disabled. This particular message box remains undefeated.
I did a search here but couldn't find any related topics. I don't want to pause updates for 5 weeks (maximum in the list), but I might do that if nobody has a way of preventing this message box from appearing. Thank you for reading this far and giving this some consideration.
 
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hellothere said:
So far I have followed the steps in this article: Turn off windows update pop up window - Microsoft Q&A
All update notification related settings in Settings are disabled. This particular message box remains undefeated.
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Hi, thank you for the welcome. That setting is disabled.
 

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The ways I avoided messages like that:
- The setting Bree just wrote.
- A setting in the update setting menu: Active hours. I set that to manual and set it to start at 7:00 AM and stop at 24:00. That's the maximum I can choose.
- And i do updates at a moment it suits me. For that I postpone updates as soon as when I have done them for at least 30 days (I do them 60 days to be exactly). How I did that extra I described here:
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