Solved Stopping windows from automaticly running updates

Hi all,

I have one PC that stays on 24/7 and it has a couple of open Excel spreadsheets that stay open all the time.

When Windows updates happen i have to 'recover' the spreadsheets that were forcibly closed the following day.

Is there a way that I can be notified when an update is available and I can choose when to run it?

Many thanks.

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

If you like, you can use option 2 in the tutorial below to disable automatic updates to be able to manually check and install updates when you want instead.

Alternatively,



Windows updates are important. Best practice is to restart your laptop once a week

andrew129260 said:

Best practice is to restart your laptop once a week.

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And save your files

NevilleT said:

it has a couple of open Excel spreadsheets that stay open all the time

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Are they saved after changes are made?
If so I suggest you set up a batch script that's run by Task scheduler to copy them into a backup folder every hour or whathaveyou.
Excel does not mind its open files being copied.

I do not agree with the best practice claim above. I have never seen that claim before.
I restart my main laptop almost every day but that's only because I have found that it develops problems going to sleep if I leave it for longer.


Denis

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Many thanks for all your helpfull suggestions on this and related subjects.

Best wishes.

Neville
(Southampton, UK)