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Use these policy settings to defer the Creators Update until early 2018.
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[Note: This article was originally published in mid-2016 for the Anniversary Update. It has been completely revised and republished for the Windows 10 Creators Update, version 1703.]
Last April, Microsoft’s update servers began delivering the Windows 10 Creators Update to current installations of Windows 10 that had been running for at least 30 days.
As with all such feature updates that are targeted at the 500 million PCs running Windows 10, this rollout can take many months.
Last week, Microsoft pronounced the Creators Update “ready for business deployment” and began expanding its distribution to businesses that had deferred the upgrade by going to Settings > Update & security > Advanced options and clicking the Defer feature updates check box. That option moves your PC from the Current Branch (which gets feature updates as soon as they’re released to the public) to the Current Branch for Business.
But what if you’re not ready to move off version 1607 yet? The update is big: roughly 3GB in size. Although setup should be quick (less than 60 minutes) on reasonably fast hardware, you might want to wait. Maybe you’re traveling and don’t want to deal with a major upgrade just now. Or maybe you want to schedule your deployment later in the year when you roll out new hardware.