title: Turning off Windows Update on Google Cloud Platform Windows Virtual Machine (Server 2016)
body: <p>Much as it pains me to do so, I have to run a Windows VM on Google Cloud Platform in order to run some legacy data extraction software on a nightly basis.</p>
  
  <p>It works fine (except the recurring feeling that I am stepping back in time every time I RDP into the VM), except over the holidays when the extract stopped.  I checked the update logs and it seemed to be when an automatic Windows Update took place.  As such I want to stop these from happening, however I cannot find any way of stopping them!</p>
  
  <p>I own the GCP project and VM, so should have permissions to change any settings I like, does anybody have a clue how to do this please?</p>