Read: Windows 10 Review – A Love Affair If a connection is a Metered Connection, Windows 10 attempts to save your device’s data. It won’t attempt to download operating system upgrades.

For some reason, Windows 10 doesn’t allow you to specify that your connection is metered when connected via ethernet (despite the fact that many home internet connections have data caps).

You can now configure a wired network connection as metered to control data usage on your PC, and in this guide, we'll show you how to do it on the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Set Windows 10’s Wi-Fi connections as metered to download forced updates at your own pace Windows 10 does not let you set metered connections the same way it did in Windows 8.1. Here's how it works.

For the past couple of weeks, various sites have suggested using a trick to turn off Windows 10’s forced updates. If you are using a Wi-Fi connection, the theory goes, you can turn off forced ...

Enable or Disable Sync your settings on Metered Connections in Windows 11/10 There are two ways by which you can Enable or Disable Sync your settings on Metered Connection in Windows 11/10.

Changes to the Creators Update for Windows 10 indicate Microsoft will start pushing updates over metered connections again, though apparently only for what are deemed crucial fixes.

In short: Windows 10 can now overrule users to download specific updates, even if they are on a metered connection.

Microsoft has changed the way updates are blocked on metered connections in the latest preview build of Windows 10.

Updated: Microsoft causes Windows 10 jitters by changing language around Windows Updates downloads over metered connections.

A Microsoft spokesperson told us: “We don’t plan to send large updates over metered connections, but could use this for critical fixes if needed in the future.” [Original story follows below.] ...

One reason to consider metering your data connection is because you can control Windows 10's mandatory updates -- Microsoft will not automatically download updates on a metered connection ...