Hide the Automatic Updates system icon in Control Panel.

You can customize the display of the Control Panel applets. With this setting, you can hide the "Automatic Updates" system icon from the current applets group.

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Description:
Control panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the windows, applications, and services environment. If you go to start > settings and select control panel, the control panel window will open. This setting can hide the "automatic updates" system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. "automatic updates" is a process that periodically scans your computer for the latest windows updates available on the internet and downloads and installs them. For this, go to start > run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value "wuaucpl.cpl" in "dont load" sub key, if this value does not exist. Setting the value data to "no" will hide the system icon "automatic update" in control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the "automatic update" system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to display this icon again, you can delete the registry value name "wuaucpl.cpl". When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.