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This is what happened:

Yesterday I paused the updates for 7 days in the settings because I needed to quickly shut down the computer and there was update on the line.

Today I installed IntelliJ IDEA Community and after finishing the installer it asked me to reboot the computer. But instead of quick restart that I expected, it took 15 minutes to boot up again.

It was showing the usual stuff when updating ... 4 % .... 30 % ... wait until Windows is ready.

After booting up, I looked into the settings and updates were still paused. So I unpaused them to check if the update I delayed yesterday was still uninstalled and surprisingly it was installed.

I checked for updates and it says: You're up to date.

So what actually happened? Could IDEA force the update? What can I do to prevent this and be in full control over the updates?

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Microsoft has released lately one or more urgent updates. Such updates are called "out-of-band" and do not respect any pause parameter, which apparently is what happened to you.

From Windows 10 update servicing cadence:

An out-of-band release is any update that does not follow the standard release schedule. These are reserved for situations where devices must be updated immediately either to fix security vulnerabilities or to solve a quality issues impacting many devices.

IntelliJ IDEA Community didn't force the update : It was already downloaded and ready, waiting for the next reboot.

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