As far as Im aware there is no way to pause an inprogress Windows Update download. Most sites I checked on Google agree. I would say while disconnected from the. Windows 10 Creator 1703 update will not complete. The initial download and configuration completes 100 but subsequent restarts fails to progress after display of 33. Sorry, page not found Please enable cookies and refresh the page. How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' title='How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' />Windows 1. For anyone else who has this problem here is how I solved it. First off the whole process was a nightmare. Just letting you know. If your Windows Update is stuck checking or downloading updates at 0 or any other figure in Windows 1087, then this post will help you fix the issue. August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8. Windows 8. 1, and Windows Server 2012 R2. I tried a lot of things and it eventually worked. Im going to list everything I did but my suspicion is the most important thing I did was frequent disk cleanups. Instead of trying to straight update to windows 1. I updated 8. 1 as much as it would let me. I had my HDD partitioned and the C drive only had 1. GB so after a billion windows update failures I figured maybe it would at least speed things up if I reclaimed the other partition. It was during this process that I did a disk cleanup Had to click on advanced so it would search for more things to delete e. After this windows update FINALLY worked. If you get it downloaded and it freezes on preparing to install Id try disk cleanup again and start over. That was a 6. 57. MB download. The next windows update was a 1. MB download. This took half a day. By the time it worked I had turned off automatic updatesdisabled windows defenderdisabled all non microsoft services and apps from running at startupran troubleshoot windows update drag down from top right, type troubleshoot, click it, click windows update about 5 timesrestarted 4 billion timesran disk cleanup again, i think this is the only thing that did anything. Please note that when it gets around to deleting windows update files that it will freeze. I found that killing the Windows Modules installer worker windows update breaks whatever deadlock the computer is in. I restored the other partitionI continued updating until it said I had no more updates to do even optional. For me this was just another 8. MB update and it worked flawlessly. I never saw that update to windows 1. I just googled install windows 1. One final thing to point out is that windows update is garbage. It will sit at preparing to install forever. It will download 7. MB but leave its download progress at 0. Windows_7_Checking_For_Updates_Problem.png' alt='How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' title='How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' />It might not let you close it. It might not open when you open it. When I was upgrading from 8 to 8. I found it will start again if you disconnect your internet and then reconnect it. Updates2.png' alt='How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' title='How To Stop Windows Update Download In Progress' />A lot of problems arise from setting Windows Update to automatically update. You may prefer to change this setting. Select Start, All Programs, Windows Update, Change. Dispositivo De Video Usb Microsoft Driver Version 2.0 more.