In Windows Update, click on change settings. Under Important Updates, select 'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'. This will give you the control on when to install and restart if required.
I want to turn off the automatic restart for Windows Update on Windows 7 Home Premium. How do I do this?
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I went to sleep last night and when I woke up my computer had been restarted. I did not tell it to restart, I did not want it restarted, and I had documents opened that I cannot recover because it restarted. It restarted because Windows Update had a single update to install. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, so I do not have the group policy editor, and the registry key that some websites mentioned to use to disable the restart is not there.
Keep in mind, I just want to prevent an involuntary restart. I do not want to turn off Windows Update, and I don't mind being prompted to restart. I just don't want my computer restarting on its own ever again.
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2012-12-18T16:19:19+00:00 Yes you do. They have endorsed you with the MVP Community Star.
As if!
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Anonymous
2012-12-18T06:53:39+00:00 Yes you do. They have endorsed you with the MVP Community Star.
Their endorsement of people like you is the reason for this:
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Anonymous
2012-12-18T06:42:34+00:00 It's called sarcasm. The effect is the same in both situations. You loose all the stuff you have in open applications during a fatal error (blue screen), or when your computer shuts down in the middle of the night, or stepped out to get coffee for longer than the 10 minute warning.
Funny thing is that from a testers perspective they, the cause is the same: a development error. One is syntax (bluescreen) the other is usability. They are both errors.
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2012-12-18T06:32:20+00:00 Way to cut & paste the whitepaper there again Rob...
Are you talking to me?
With all due respect, the content in my post was my own, thank you very much.
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Please volunteer your time elsewhere. Your not very useful as your certification implies. Perhaps you volunteer because you have no job, and perhaps you have no job because you have a tendency to blame customers.