rem http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-automatic-updates-command-line/ reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f rem remove optional WSUS server settings reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /f rem even harder, disable windows update service rem sc config wuauserv start= disabled rem net stop wuauserv if exist C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log ( echo Show Windows Updates log file C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log dir C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log type C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log rem output of type command is not fully shown in packer/ssh session, so try PowerShell rem but it will hang if log file is about 22 KByte rem powershell -command "Get-Content C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log" echo End of Windows Updates log file C:\Windows\Temp\win-updates.log )