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
    2020-03-16T16:09:34+00:00

    With regedit, navigate to...   or establish... 

    \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

    Create REG_DWORD (dword 32-bit) for AUOptions and set to 2 .... 

    There are other postings online about this setting, you can alternatively use gpedit.msc, but it is not the same as the older instructions posted in this thread that used to work until recently.  Here's one link with references, but it's difficult to navigate because the page has multiple instructions and adds to scroll through... https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/disable-windows-10-update.html

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-16T15:51:10+00:00

    Hi Jerry62,

    I am going through my registry and am not finding these keys or values. I'd like to add them (hope that works). Do you know what type of value to use for "AUOptions"? 

    Thank you!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-16T12:36:46+00:00

    If you don't want to totally disable Windows updates, but want to control them and thus control rebooting, setting "AUOptions" to "2" in the registry has been ideal and works fine under the latest Win 10 1909 build.  See my previous post on Page 6 of this thread.  Windows notifies you when downloads are available.  You just postpone the downloading until you are ready to download, apply, reboot.  Don't click the "download" button until you have decided that you want to download and apply, and thus don't be running programs that take days to finish until after updates are applied and the system has been restarted.  But you should monitor the installs to force the reboot close to the time it completes the installs,  unless you're not planning to use the system again right away... otherwise it if you leave it in that state after the installs complete, it will determine when to restart on its own, and don't wait many months between applying updates (ideally).  Again, with this setting, you are in control... just don't click "download" until you decide "OK, it's about time I apply security updates..."

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

    Amen!  Can I get a witness?

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