The video's one click tool works exactly as shown. This page opens the bonnet: which services it disables, what else stops with them, the risk in the tool itself — and why its Restore button matters more than its Stop button.
There is no point pretending the tool does not work — click it, and Windows Update stops. The honest questions are the ones a two-minute video has no time for. What did it actually change? What else went quiet? Where does this sit among the other ways of controlling updates? Graded below, fairly — including the one thing this tool does better than doing it by hand.
The method in the video is a small third-party tool, downloaded from the link in the video description. You install it, untick the web-update option on the last setup screen, leave the launch option ticked, click Finish — and then click the one button the tool exists for: Stop Windows Updates. The video also shows the tool's second button, Restore Windows Update, and explains why it matters. Hold on to that second button; it is the most important thing on this page.
The tool is presented as simple and effective, and honestly, it is both. What needs grading is effective at what cost, and simple compared to which alternative.
Windows has no supported switch labelled "updates off forever". So the tool does the only thing that fully stops updates: it sets the Windows Update service (wuauserv) and its helpers — BITS, which carries the downloads, and the Update Orchestrator — to Disabled. Some tools of this class also write a blocking policy value into HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate.
In other words, the tool is the bottom rung of the ladder holding a remote control. One click instead of five minutes in services.msc — the destination is identical, and so is everything that stops working when you arrive there.
The services being disabled are shared plumbing, and other things drink from the same pipe:
None of this appears on the tool's cheerful one-button screen. That silence — not the tool itself — is the problem this page exists to correct.
Step back and look at what you are being asked to run: a small program, from a file-sharing link, executed with administrator rights, whose entire job is to tamper with protected system services. That description also fits a category of software your antivirus is paid to be suspicious of — so if your security software looks hard at a tool of this class, it is doing its job, not malfunctioning.
The discipline that makes this acceptable is narrow: get the tool only from the link in the video description, never from a random download portal or a forwarded copy, and treat any version that arrives from anywhere else as untrusted. A tampering tool from an unknown source, run as admin, on a PC whose updates you have just disabled, is the worst combination in this whole topic.
Here is the genuine advantage over the manual services kill: Restore Windows Update. The same tool that stopped everything knows exactly what it changed and can undo it in one click. If you use this method at all, that button is your way back — no other cleanup, no registry archaeology.
So the honest grade: as a temporary, deliberate pause with a known exit, the tool is a legitimate convenience — for a PC that must not be disturbed for a fixed period, with a patch day booked on the calendar. As a set-and-forget answer, it is the most expensive rung on the ladder, bought with the least thought. The tool is not the decision. The patch day is.
The one click stop tool from the video, shown live — and the restore button you should know about before you ever press stop.
▶️ Watch Full VideoThe stopping action itself is well understood — it disables the update services, and the tool's Restore button reverses it. The risks are the source (use only the link in the video description, never a random copy) and the result: a PC that receives no security fixes for as long as the stop lasts.
Yes — the service names and the mechanics are the same on both, which is why one tool covers the video's Windows 10 and 11 title. The Restore button is equally important on both: it is the difference between a pause and a trap.
Because it does nothing lasting — Windows simply downloads them again. The downloaded files are water already in the bucket; the services are the tap. Every real control method, from pause to the stop tool, works on the tap.