{"id":627000,"date":"2026-04-25T04:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:28:12","slug":"microsoft-will-let-you-pause-windows-updates-indefinitely-35-days-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627000\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2026\/04\/24\/your-windows-update-experience-just-got-updated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changes to Windows Update<\/a> to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Last month, Microsoft announced a slew of upcoming changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/897834\/microsoft-windows-11-quality-performance-commitments-changes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improve Windows 11<\/a> and address some of users\u2019 most common complaints about the platform. Chief among the company\u2019s planned fixes was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/898082\/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making updates less disruptive<\/a>. In its blog post on Friday, Microsoft says you\u2019ll be able to \u201cextend the pause end date as many times as you need\u201d and that there are \u201cno limits\u201d on how many times you can reset to another 35-day window. If you don\u2019t re-pause updates at the end of the 35-day period, updates will run as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The changes to Windows Update also include more detailed titles for driver updates, which will now include the device class they apply to, such as display, audio, or battery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Additionally, Windows 11 will now always have options in the power menu to restart or shut down without running updates, as well as the option to skip updates when setting up a new Windows device. Microsoft is also \u201cunifying the update experience\u201d to bunch together updates so users don\u2019t have to reboot as frequently. Instead, \u201cupdates will download in the background, then will wait for a coordinated installation and restart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,63,44,64,61,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-627000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-windows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}