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Add a lot of stuff to try and convince people this is not a duplicate.

edited Jan 23, 2016 at 0:40

With Windows 10 how can I shut down without installing updates?

With Windows 7 it was possible to use the task manager screen to shut down without applying updates (see How to shut down the computer without the update on Windows 7? ). But on Windows 10 that's not possible.

How can I shut down Windows 10 without installing updates. I might want this because:

I need to shut down or reboot quickly
The computer is acting funny and that's why I need to reboot (yeah, it's still Windows), and I don't trust running updates at that time. No point in making a bad problem worse.

This does not seem to be an option the power menu:

The old Windows 7/8 trick does not work.

asked Jan 22, 2016 at 19:48