Now, whenever you press the power button, your computer will shut down immediately without checking if there are updates to install or not. Don’t forget to click Save changes after setting things up. Change the action your computer takes When I press the power button to Shut down in both on “battery” or “plugged in” in case of a laptop. 
From the left pane, choose “ Choose what the power button does”. search for “power options” and choose Power Options. Press your Windows logo Key + R to launch your Run app and then type control panel then press Enter or click Ok. This way, you will give your computer an order to shut down immediately without updating… exactly what we want right? So, let’s do it: 
In our case, we will set it to shut down once pressed. Windows 10 and some older versions of Windows give you the ability to configure the power button to make it take actions of your choice. OK, here are the methods that do work! Method I: Configure the power button We’ve included the correct command in Method II.
Executing this command in your CMD: “ shutdown /s“, this one will only sign you out from the current user but won’t shut down your computer. Pressing ALT+F4 because the same options will be there:. I’ll show you how in a minute.īut first, don’t waste your time with these solutions you may find online – because they won’t work! Don’t try this! Here are some methods that DON’T work. This is the moment where you don’t click on these options and do something else to postpone the update / set-up. When Windows is about to update the usual Shut down and Restart options become Update and Shut down and Update and Restart, like this: Here’s what it looks like when the update is about to happen We’re going to postpone that set up and perform it when we want, not when Windows wants. 
After the installation is done, you computer will require a restart in order to set things up.Īnd that’s where our trick lies. Once all the available updates are downloaded, it begins to install them one by one. If updates are found, Windows begins to download them. Your computer checks for updates (in most cases, automatically). Hello our dear readers! Don’t you just hate it when Windows decides to suddenly update itself when you just want to shut down your laptop and go? Today’s tip will help you skip updating your Windows while shutting down or restarting.
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