One of the problems that Windows has always had are the happy automatic updates, those updates that when you are going to turn off the laptop because you are in a hurry to leave, they begin to install under the threat of not turning off the computer. At that moment you are left with a silly face cursing Windows, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Satya Nadella and other members of the old and current Microsoft. Redmond seems to have grown tired of their ears ringing and the new Windows 10 beta shows a new feature called "Active Hours." Unfortunately Windows does not disable updatesMicrosoft always wants us to be up-to-date at all times, but unlike the current settings, it tries not to interrupt our regular work.
When we activate "Active hours", we can configure the hours in which we usually use the computer throughout the day, to prevent updates from being downloaded and installed during that period of the day. Unfortunately we cannot set that period to be 23 hours and 59 minutes, It only allows us to configure 10 continuous hours of work, hours that should cover the working day of most people who work with the computer every day at their usual job or at home, for those who do telework. If you have a split day, things get complicated.
In order to configure this new function, we must first be enrolled in the Microsoft Insider program and have the latest beta installed on your computer. Then we must carry out the following steps:
- We head up Settings.
- Within Settings click on Updates and Security.
- Now click on Change active hours to establish the schedule in which we do not want under any circumstances that Windows download and install updates for windows.
This function will be great for all those gamers who broadcast their games through Twich and want to prevent the computer from restarting in the middle of the game as it happened to a gamer a few days ago, or the presenter of the weather program of a United States chain in which we could see how in the middle of the map of the country, the Windows poster would appear informing that it was necessary to restart the computer for the updates to take effect.