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
    2019-09-11T16:17:55+00:00

    The registry edit doesn't work on me. The No auto-restart... is set at enable and I restarted my PC. The next day, it was restarted. So annoying.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-05-24T21:34:25+00:00

    gpedit.msp doesn't bloody exist on my computer. It's just plain NOT THERE.

    If you have the Home edition of Windows 10, you're absolutely right. The group policy editor comes with the Professional edition.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-15T14:18:16+00:00

    I followed your steps a few days ago ... and then last night my computer restarted while I was sleeping.    I had left a 4 day task running overnight.   When I got up this morning I expected to see it approaching the 2/3 done but instead I have to start all over again with no confidence that it will be able to complete before the morons from Microsoft force my computer to reboot.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-12-23T20:44:44+00:00

    Hours of softwares, reference pages, and documentation open to track and fix an issue in the code but then, Windows restart out of nowhere purging all the workplace I had set up for the third time in few weeks.

    Auto-update during start or shut-down is an outdated practice so now it must be done while people are using it! That's modern UX design for you.

    "Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating" doesn't help. I had it enabled and it just auto restarted again. I hope one of the hacky solutions posted here works for me.

    I don't get why an absurd feature such as automatic restarts passed. I'm sure even casual users find it annoying. I guess Windows is no longer suitable for complex work or any other lengthy activity.

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