How to Pause and Resume a Windows Update Download in Windows 10

The method is quite easy and you just need to execute some commands in your Windows 10 OS and you will be done with that with the complete control over the downloads of the updates going on your PC. So follow up the below step by step guide to proceed.

Steps to Pause and Resume a Windows Update Download in Windows 10:

1. In your Windows 10 OS, press the keyboard buttons Win + X, and there select the Command prompt option that will open in the admin access.
2. Now firstly to stop the Windows update services, you need to execute the below command:
   

   net stop wuauserv

3. Now the next step will be to stop the Background Intelligent Transfer service and for that execute the below command:
   

   net stop bits

4. Now the last thing you need to stop is Delivery Optimization and for that execute the below command:
   

   net stop dosvc

   

   5. Now above were the commands to stop updates services and whenever you want to resume all these services then you can execute the below commands one by one:
   

   net start wuauserv
   net start bits
   net start dosvc

   6.

   
   

   That’s it, you are done. So, now your windows, updates services can be resumed and paused easily.