[SOLVED] Windows Update starts automatically at boot causing high disk/network usage

danny009

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Apr 11, 2019
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Stupid Windows 10 always starts the Update component automatically when I reached to the desktop, it seems something makes it auto starts even though I disabled it from gpedit.msc and services.msc, probably because I disabled it too long in time since I have Windows 10 1903 and happy with it, causing %25 disk usage and high network usage in our home network also causing the smart TV crash out of the netflix. It seems when I stop and disable again in Services.msc it stops ok but restarts itself at every morning when I boot my computer. It seems some Task Schedular task triggers it daily, unfortunately Microsoft made it cannot be deleted or disabled the related task, it gaves it an error "Your acccount lack of administrator rights" even though my account is administrator.

There is any way to remove this and make it completely turned off?