Request: Windows Update Features

First, congrats on going open source 👍

Anyway, one feature I'd really like to see is one I find particularly useful (and very under-used) which is to disable driver updates via Windows Update.
This is a useful feature because once you have your working system, you don't have to worry about driver updates coming along and breaking things - and you can do so without having to disable windows updates entirely (generally a bad idea for security reasons, and this is how people generally avoid driver updates - kinda overkill!)

The other very useful Windows update feature is to set it to only download them manually. You know how everyone is always saying how annoying it is that windows just forced an update on their PC? Well, it didn't. That's just the default, aimed at the general user who wants the thing to just work automatically.... they just never changed that default. You can have a button to download the updates whenever YOU want to do it :)

Here is the existing Windows Update section:

Here are the windows policies related to the above suggestions:


Note: Choose option 2!

While I'm at it, I'd request one more which can be useful for people who want to avoid unexpected performance impact: Disable "Allow automatic updates immediate installation". One example where this can be useful is for people who are say, playing a game, and don't want windows to do stuff in the background without asking.


Naturally, all of these options should come with the warning that they should only be applied by users who are willing to manually take responsibility for installation of upgrades/drivers/etc in a timely fashion, to ensure a secure and stable system, but since so many people complain that Microsoft has "forced" these automatic updates and "stolen" their ability to take this role upon themselves, when in fact the option has always been there, perhaps it would be nice to expose the option to power users who use software like Privatezilla :)

Start by reviewing the existing Windows Update section referenced in the issue and the linked Windows policy screenshots. Identify how that section represents update settings, then confirm that the three requested controls and their manual-update warning are exposed and behave as described.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.