How to Disable Windows 10 Peer-to-Peer Updates

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to disable Windows 10 Peer-to-Peer updates. In order to speed up the distribution of Windows 10 updates, Microsoft had a good idea to use P2P (peer-to-peer) technology.

In other words, if you have several computers running Windows 10 at home, only one of them will have to download the updates. For the others, they will be shared via the local network, which means they won’t have to be downloaded, only installed. So of course, this is a good idea in itself, but the following is much less so…

In fact, here’s where it’s more vicious, it’s that Microsoft has enabled by default not only the sharing of updates on your local network but also with the whole world. Basically, the American giant uses your Internet connection bandwidth to save the bandwidth of its Windows Update servers, and that’s not so cool…

… your PC can also send parts of the Windows updates and applications already downloaded to PCs on your local network or PCs on the Internet, depending on what is selected below.

So if you don’t want to share your bandwidth, follow this tutorial!
 

 

How to Disable Windows 10 Peer-to-Peer Updates

Step 1: To prevent sharing of updates with other PCs in the world, click on the Windows 10 Start menu, and then type the following keyword: Windows Update. In the search results, click on Windows Update settings.
 

 

 
Step 2: In the left panel, click on Delivery Optimization and check the box PC on my local network.

Now you will not share your updated files with other computers in the world. In addition, your Internet bandwidth will no longer be overloaded unnecessarily, which means that your browsing will be much faster.

Finally, note that you can disable the option as well if you don’t have any other computer.