Disable Windows 10 automatic restart after updates

Anonymous
2019-02-14T12:17:31+00:00

Is there any REAL way to disable this cancer feature?

This is not the first time i have lost unsaved work due to this annoying function, that almost every Windows user hates.

I'm trying to behave, but it is really hard to keep calm after loosing unsaved work multiple times.

Why is it that Windows cannot just wait until the user decides to restart at a convenient time? It's not like the end of the world that users doesn't restart at a specific time.

In a time where Apple's Mac is already "stealing" a lot of Windows customers, it is a very risky (and dumb) feature to add to Windows.

This alone is very difficult to argue against in a Mac vs. Windows discussion.

Luckily (for Microsoft) Microsoft have secured themselves from a law suit in their policy.

MS knows that all Windows users hates this feature, and yet they still have it. WHY?

So back to the question. Is there any official/unofficial way (FOR GOOD)  that allows me to disable this annoying feature?

I tried following some tutorials on YouTube, but little did it help obviously, as i just came home and found my computer restarted, and my work deleted.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-15T15:23:03+00:00

    Amen!  Can I get a witness?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-12T02:56:55+00:00

    This in response to Microsoft on how to set "....scheduled updates" or how how to hack the reboot process. I have read all 342 posts from 14 Feb 2019 to 11 Mar 2020. 

    It does not appear Microsoft or others who like the auto-update feature understand that many of are looking for a solution to prevent an auto-reboot without the user manually excepting the reboot time or manually pressing the restart now button. 

    This is how my Mac works and oddly my Windows 10 at work works, but I cannot find manual reboot, reboot in x minutes option in Windows. The Mac and my Work PC both ask if I want to apply and restart in x minutes, later tonight or defer till tomorrow.  Why does this matter? Because some of us have our computers performing batch operations or acting as a light duty server. In the morning we find a batch job stopped and we lot valuable work time or a photo server or webservice is not responding, because the computer rebooted, but did not relogin a user which kick-off a auto start of app or service.

    Provide an unattended reboot after hours or system prompt and user acceptance of before rebooting.

    Is this only a feature in enterprise editions? If I would have known this I would have never got rid of my Mac. I really do not want a second computer (Mac or nix) just for batch jobs and light server duties.

    Come on MS embrace the *nix ways you are integrating, look at Ubuntu, BSD and Mac, they all have similar methods or services to control when a reboot occurs post or pre-updates.  Yes, Linux and BSD may require a little more knowledge, but the Mac is dead simple to disable or postpone under user control.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-15T16:58:21+00:00

    You are wrong sir, Linux never did that to me in 20 years. I understand that the features does need a reboot to be processed but those features can wait. I should be the boss, not the features. I want them, I want to be up to date but I should be the one in charge of when stuff happens.

    Just so you understand what is my problem I need to leave some excel files open all day long and every time it reboot it breaks the whole thing. Files get to be repaired and guess what ? Excel breaks them a little more while repairing them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-13T16:54:26+00:00

    change ownership, permissions of /Windows/System32/shutdown.exe then rename that file and strip "Trusted Installer" user of it's permission to execute that file. Microsoft can then try all it might to thwart our efforts to have commerce happen and be productive

    • and we will care about their frustration about as much as they do us.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T01:32:26+00:00

    This is what happened to me, I have Laptops running at a remote location and this BS just caused one of my remote computers to force restart even after I tried all these numerous hacks to stop it

    These control freaks in their corporate offices at Microsoft don't give a damn about this inconvenience caused to little people... now I'm going to have to wait a day to have someone come and restart Anydesk on the remote computer or reconnect the Wifi (Even though I have that program set as a startup program and internet always reconnects when in range when router is rebooted remotely)

    The updates go in and mess with your Wifi settings as well (B*stards)

    If I can in future Im going to switch to Linux, no way Im putting up with this

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