Select when Quality Updates are received

Enable this policy to specify when to receive quality updates.

You can defer receiving quality updates for up to 30 days.

To prevent quality updates from being received on their scheduled time, you can temporarily pause quality updates. The pause will remain in effect for 35 days or until you clear the start date field.

To resume receiving Quality Updates which are paused, clear the start date field.

If you disable or do not configure this policy, Windows Update will not alter its behavior.

After a quality update is released, defer receiving it for this many days:

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
Value Name	DeferQualityUpdatesPeriodInDays
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Default Value	0
Min Value	0
Max Value	30

Pause Quality Updates starting

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
Value Name	PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value

(format yyyy-mm-dd example: 2016-10-30)