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If you have the windows 10 experience, you will know that this is not a trivial issue. Two days ago, I had more than 3.5gb data on my MTN line. I tethered the internet connection from my phone to my windows 10 laptop. I dozed off and in two hours time when I woke up, I saw a message on my phone saying I have exhausted my data and my internet connection has been suspended. To cut the long story short, I found out that my system was running automatic updates and even though my 3.5gb data was exhausted the automatic update was at 86%.

Thanks to GTBANK 737 service, I reloaded my line with N2,000 immediately so that I can continue what I needed to do online. The problem is that Windows 10 does not allow you disable automatic updates for security features. If you are using Windows 10 professional, Windows 10 enterprise, or Windows 10 Educational, you can differ feature updates(under advanced options) but even this can only be effective for some months; in other words, you can only buy time because the update must be downloaded whether you like it or not. The windows 10 users with home license must receive both security and feature updates and serve as the guinea pig for those who have the ability to defer receiving feature updates.

Exact Step to Stop Windows 10 Automatic Updates From Consuming your Mobile Data
Whether you are a home user, a professional user, an enterprise user, or an educational user, this trick will work for you. What we need to do, is to go to our settings and set the wifi network we connected to as a metered connection. Once that is done, the system sees the network as having limited data allocation and therefore will not use it for download of any updates.
The exact steps for setting your wifi internet connection as a metered connection on your PC thereby stopping windows 10 automatic updates from consuming your mobile data are clearly shown in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsybokRyL6c

Click the start button
Click on settings
Click on network and internet
Click on wifi to the left of the settings menu
Click on manage known networks
On the list of wifi networks that appears, select the wifi network you want to make a metered connection
Click on properties
Click on the last radio button among the three that appears which is set as metered connection. ((In other words, turn the metered connection button to on position)
You have successfully made the connection a metered connection and even if you disconnect from it, the connection will still be recognised as a metered connection anytime you reconnect. In other words, you only need to set a particular connection as a metered connection once even if you frequently connect and disconnect.

SOURCE: http://successsecrets01..com.ng/2017/05/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-consuming.html

Thanks.

IdeeEsperanza:
Thanks.

Good morning and welcome!
I know how it feels

Windows 10 ignores the "metered connection setting" a lot.

I hope this helps.
https://www.nairaland.com/4021813/how-disable-windows-update#59960882

"Ohh, I'm already furious with Google updates, because
this is real hell and it takes about 3 hours instead of 40 minutes. The fact is that after the last update I received an error message from the system and I was very scared because I do not even have advanced user knowledge. As a result, after much torment and searching for solutions, I came across one site where it was described in detail how to get rid of error 0x800f0831. Now everything is fine, but I'm afraid to install new updates))"