How to Remove Windows Updates Installation Tasks

Depending of deployment type, you can to have one or two domains. To do these steps, yow will need to connect to every machine with the correct credentials.

Remove Windows Updates Installation Task (GUI)

  • Open the Computer Management console (compmgmt.msc), select Connect to another computer ... and type de machine name.

  • Once it is already connected to a machine, go to System ToolsTask Scheduler and Task Scheduler Library.

  • Select the Windows Updates Installation task, and click on Delete.

  • Repeat the last three steps for every machine of your deployment.

Remove Windows Updates Installation Task (CLI)

  • Open Windows PowerShell, type Enter-PSSession <computername> -Credential "<Domain> \ <Username>", and insert the correct credentials.

  • Once it is already connected to a machine, type Get-ScheduledTask "Windows Updates Installation" | Unregister-ScheduledTask -Confirm:$false to delete the task.

  • Repeat the last two steps for every machine of your deployment.


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