Remove or uninstall Windows Updates in Windows 11/10 using Control Panel, Settings, Command Prompt, PowerShell or Recovery Environment.

To control the update hours in Windows 10, on the Windows Update screen, click Change active hours. ... See “Using DISM to install Windows updates” for details.

Microsoft is phasing out the traditional Control Panel with the Windows 10 Creators Update, but with a few tweaks you can still access it. Mark Kaelin explains how.

If you are unable to remove an update from the Settings app or Control Panel, you can also use the Windows Update Standalone Installer, or wusa.exe, command line program to uninstall Windows updates.

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page.

Windows Defender also has a section in the Update & security tab, though it hasn't been banished from the Control Panel like Windows Update. In this section, you can toggle different Windows ...