do you have important and/or fun things to do on the computer? do you use windows 10 or 11? are you sick and tired of microsoft occasionally just releasing a broken update and fucking all your shit up? windows update blocker may be the tool for you.
it is imperfect and some things will not work right (anything you have to download from the microsoft store will not download until updates are turned back on) but it can save you a significant amount of hassle. in the ~2 years i've been using it i have never once had a windows update barge in, shut everything down for 20 minutes to several hours, and make my graphics tablet or important software i need stop working. now i can control when i update and do it on a day where i know i'll have some time to fix whatever chaos the updates may bring.
(obviously, avoiding updates can also be a security risk. but so can allowing them. i figure if i'm fucked either way i might as well not be annoyed as often)
