Windows 10 Update Downloads Time of Day Setting?

As far as I know you can restrict the hours when Windows updates will do an automatic restart but you cannot change when it downloads them.

 

If your computer slows dramatically when downloading updates it may be due to an internet problem - a slow connection - or a hardware one such as insufficient RAM. I have to say that I have never observed this on my desktop, my main computer. while I know when to expect Windows updates the first thing I know that I have actually received them is the infamous  notification 'Your computer needs to restart . . .'

 

If you have more than one computer on your network it might be worth looking at 'Delivery optimisation' in 'Settings'. It is possible that if you designate one computer to receive the updates then copying them across your network might speed up the process.

 

Chris Cosgrove

Hello and welcome to BC:

These tutorials may help:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/46557-enable-disable-active-hours-windows-update-windows-10-a.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/46468-change-active-hours-windows-update-windows-10-a.html

I suppose you could disable Windows Updates altogether and then manually download the patches from the Microsoft Updates catalog every month (taking care that you download the correct version of each patch for your system & architecture and that you don't omit critical security patches).

Doing so would be both laborious and potentially fraught with error.
In other words it would be a very "long run for a short slide".

All of which begs the question: what are you trying to achieve with your proposed plan?
Is there a problem or issue you're trying to resolve or work around?

Thanks, totally agree wouldn't be worth the struggle

 

the problem is the background download (for later installation during set up active hours) totally slows down the computer