# beware windows updates

**URL:** <https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614>\
**Category:** LulzBot Mini\
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614 "2017-02-23T10:54:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![lesthegringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@lesthegringo](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/lesthegringo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/1 "2017-02-23T10:54:58Z")

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after 4 hours of a four and a half hour print, windows update stopped the print and ruined 60 grams of filament. Disable if you haven’t already done so

Les

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**Author:** ![ttabbal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@ttabbal](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/ttabbal)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/2 "2017-02-24T06:30:58Z")

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Ouch. That’s one of the reasons I recommend raspberry pi + Octoprint or similar to people. No auto-updates to mess with you. And no need to leave the nice computer tethered to the printer.

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**Author:** ![piercet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.lulzbot.com/piercet/32/12_2.png) [@piercet](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/piercet)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/3 "2017-02-25T09:00:25Z")

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I just disable the windows update service if I am doing a long print.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@John\_Mc](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/John_Mc)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/4 "2017-02-27T23:05:26Z")

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I thought Windows 10 didn’t let you disable the updates (at least not the Windows 10 Home version).

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**Author:** ![piercet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.lulzbot.com/piercet/32/12_2.png) [@piercet](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/piercet)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/5 "2017-02-27T23:21:26Z")

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you have to actually temporarily kill the update service in services.msc

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**Author:** ![PHugger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.lulzbot.com/phugger/32/89_2.png) [@PHugger](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/PHugger)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/beware-windows-updates/4614/6 "2017-02-28T00:51:02Z")

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I’m running the Windows 10 Insiders Buildss so I can’t swear that these options are on all versions -

- You can pause updates for 35 days
- You can change your Active Hours
- You can tell windows that you are on a metered connection
- You can set your Sleep and Screensaver option to Never

All of these will affect interruptions during prints.  
Personally, on my Taz5 I just don’t use my PC to print. This leaves me with sneaker netting an SD card to the printer or using Octoprint on my Raspberry Pi. I can slice on the PC and save the GCode to a NAS drive and then pick it up on the Pi (the Pi 3 has both Ethernet and WiFi builtin). Sometimes it’s just quicker and easier to do from the SD card.  
  
  
Best regards,  
PCH