{"id":99,"date":"2026-04-24T20:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/microsoft-windows-updates-pause-35-days\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:45:58","slug":"microsoft-windows-updates-pause-35-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/microsoft-windows-updates-pause-35-days\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Microsoft\u2019s Windows logo\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/24038601\/acastro_STK109_microsoft_02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">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\/\">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=\"has-text-align-none\">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\">improve Windows 11<\/a> and address some of users&#8217; most common complaints about the platform. Chief among the company&#8217;s planned fixes was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/898082\/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic\">making updates less disruptive<\/a>. In its blog post on Friday, Microsoft says you&#8217;ll be able to &#8220;extend the pause end date as many times as you \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/918572\/microsoft-windows-updates-pause-35-days\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>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 changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time. [\u2026]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-consumer-tech","tag-culture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}