Customize the Schedule of Windows 8 Updates

Last Updated on February 4, 2013

By default Windows 8 updates automatically, and turns on the computer to do it. But you can easily change this behavior in Windows’ Action Center.

Windows 8 can automatically check for updates, even if the computer is turned off. By default this happens every night at 3:00am. But you can easily change the schedule and disable having your computer automatically powered on. Here’s how.

From the Windows 8 Start Menu or search (Ctrl + W) type: automatic maintenance and then click the link from the Settings results.

The Action Center for Automatic Maintenance will open up. In this screen, the update schedule can be set to a different time. There’s also a checkbox you can uncheck so your system doesn’t power on to update. .

Once set to the desired time, click OK to save changes and exit.

2 Comments

rose williams
I don’t want auto update downloads. it will use my gb
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Rob
Not sure what windows 8 you’re running I’m running 8.1(hate it I want XP back) . I typed as you stated and I got “search found no results”
The best I can do is set maintenance at ….
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