Why not just disable the windows update service? Right click my computer -> manage -> services -> windows update -> disable
@Steve_M that option is not there on Windows 10 Anniversary update.
It’s there on mine, build 14393.479
@ThantiK ah, FEM on freecad have been under heavy development for some timw. try latest git/Nightly builds. https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=hsNwWrELM4M
@Steve_M , that one may work. Thought those series of clicks led to the other one.
@Thomas_Sanladerer Tried Lightworks for an NLE yet? Video tutorials are a must to get the basics down, but it’s the most powerful package I’ve seen for Linux (though it’s cross-platform).
My gaming rig is Linux-based, but it’s not for everyone. Getting better, especially for indie games.
@Steve_M disabling Windows Update altogether also means you’re not getting security patches.
Disabling updates is not available for “home” versions of Windows 10, only Pro versions. You can still resort to registry hacks to disable it. (had to on my girlfriends laptop, which keeps going into a “failed to install updates” loop)
@Thomas_Sanladerer Not if you re-enable it once your print is done. I’m sure there’s a powershell script you could whip up that disables the service with a single click and then re-enables it later once you’re done.
@Thomas_Sanladerer I’m surprised you don’t use SUSE/OpenSUSE. 
I run octoprint in a OpenSUSE VM to control my mendel90.
What kind of video editing do you need? There are several Linux based video editors for simple editing and back in the day I would use cinelerra for more serious editing. Using a couple computers to create a cinelerra render farm really speeds things up. Though it’s been a few years so I don’t know how well it works or is being maintained these days.
@Ralph_Schaffner i use the crap out of Adobe Premiere Pro, which means Color correction and grading, digital stabilization, automated proxy workflow, audio editing etc. Not a whole lot of other tools can do that, particularly not as efficiently and tightly integrated as Premiere/CC.
Oh, and i shoot, edit and export in 4K, so performance is a big deal, too. Can’t afford a render farm.
All windows 10 versions don’t officially allow turning off updates however on versions of Pro and Enterprise you can use the group policy editor to disable auto updates (without being on a domain). I have mine set to download but not install on Windows 10 pro
gpedit.msc is the program built into windows.
@Pieter_Koorts they removed the options from Pro. Enterprise is the only versions of 10 that allow such things…or at least that’s the way it’s headed.
@ThantiK not sure if it has any effect still but still there in Win 10 Pro. It would make an enormous amount of businesses upset if they disabled group policy editor.
@Pieter_Koorts yes, obviously the group policy editor is there – but they’ve removed options for disabling updates, etc in pro editions as well as home editions.
@ThantiK Oh wow, my work is going to be so pleased to hear about this (running pro edition). We will obviously petition it with Microsoft unless they want to hand out perpetual Enterprise licenses since enterprise can only currently be had through a non-perpetual license. That or we will send them a bill for any lost data on machines that run through the night crunching data.
Or I just revert back to Windows 7 or 8
Just a thought but would invalid routing all microsoft domains help by preventing it reaching any update servers? E.g. pointing *.http://microsoft.com to localhost or a broken address. Then when you want to update just allow it out to the domains again.
@Pieter_Koorts some of the IP addresses for their services are hard-coded into the OS. So you can’t block just domains, you need to block IP addresses too. The level of nasty shit they’re doing in Win10 is a whole new kind of bad.