I want to turn off the automatic restart for Windows Update on Windows 7 Home Premium. How do I do this?

 

This mis-feature of Windows makes me so cross.  How Dare you, Microsoft, control my computer?  It's MY Computer.  I am a PC, but Microsoft tells me when to re-start.  It's not as if your own software is good at shutting itself down so that documents can be recoverd.

 

Shame on you, Microsoft. 

PS, in my Windows 7, Run -> gpedit.msc does not work.

And it's not just a control issue. There are legitimate reasons to not have a system automatically restart, such as when using the PC as a file server or as a DVR (Windows Media Center).

Far too often I've had the computer doing something I need it to do only to check back the next morning and find it sitting at the login screen having restarted itself in the night (and what I needed done was either interrupted or never started).

Seems this could be an easy option to add to Windows Update settings:

[X] Disable automatic restart after updates are installed

Wow, so what part of Kerashi's post, " I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, so I do not have the group policy editor" means "I have gpedit.msc"? Your post is of no help to Kerashi.

so far as i know, adding registry entries exported from windows 7 professional do the trick. you need to know which ones to export though. 

NOTE!: installing registry keys from different platforms (32bit to 64bit, or vice versa...) may break windows. do NOT cross install REG keys from different platform installs. they are different in the installs and the 64-bit has more branches.

if you copy Local Group Policies from a 32-bit install of windows, only inject it into a 32-bit OS. The same goes for 64-bit. the easiest way to do this is to go into the registry of a Professional install and copy the registry settings that will GIVE you GPEDIT.MSC. The MS Console Snap-In that gives you control of the policies. Alternatively, you can just as easily purchase an upgrade key to enable these features. Eh but who wants to do that?? not me. i would rather alter the windows install to get what i want out of it. yes stock windows EVERYTHING sucks. i hate automatic ANYTHING! now as far as antivirus, you should never be able to cancel updates. that would just be stupid to not update the thing you paid to protect you.