Disable Windows 10 automatic restart after updates

The silence is deafening...  What do we "non-Pro" people do to stop this nightmare without the GPEDIT magic?

But even that fix feels wrong.  I don't want to disable updates, or even the restarts.  I just want to be able to control when they happen.  Perhaps a warning that an update iss coming?  Something? Anything?

 I, too, have lost work through the magic restart of windows.

Many. Times. One. Time. Is. Too. Many.

My latest loss was just a couple of days ago.  But it's been even WORSE.  I have a laptop and I sometimes leave it all snuggled up in a nice Belkin bag.  Then....IT BOOTS UP!.... OVERHEATS!...  I'm surprised I haven't had a fire.  Hell, I'm surprised it still works.  One time I caught it running and I had to blow on my hand after removing the laptop; it was HOT.

So for now I'm trying the active hours setting, lying by setting the active hours to when I'm sleeping, so I'll have a better chance of being there before the restart occurs.  I'm also trying Omoikane1122's reboot file change (though this seems a little "over the top" to me).

How about a "Don't restart without my OK" checkbox?  Or a "Don't wake up to perform updates" checkbox?

So...what do I do, then?

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.

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

1: Only some hate this feature and I am not one of them. So happy!

2. What update is it? Only updates like the cumulative ones and cumulative.net... requires a restart. Plus, it will only ask for a restart after the update (cumulative) is done downloading and finished installing. Actually, after restarting, then it will counts as a successful install. Normally, Windows will not ask for a restart, or automatically restart, never heard off automatically restart unless it pertains to that update. I never have that issue before.

Well, count me as another who hates it.  Giving me no option after downloading and installing an update (which does not warn the user of this ahead of time) other than to have my computer restart without my consent once my active hours (which can only be set to a maximum of 18 hours) are over.... that's simply not acceptable.  There is no valid reason to prevent users from postponing the restart for as long as we wish, and doing it at a time of our choosing.  Anything else leaves me inclined to disable updates altogether.  These are *our* computers, not Microsoft's.  If they can't understand that, they'll be left in Linux's dust.

For those that consider Linux too small a contender for that last sentence to be anything but a joke:  consider that Android is just a modified Linux OS, and currently holds the largest market share among all internet-connected devices, having overtaken Windows by 2017.  Not long after Windows 10 was released, come to think...

And if you search on Microsoft's own bing.com for <disable windows 10 update automatic restart>, you get over 28 million results.  That's more than if you search "Avengers Endgame", for an indication of how popular the idea of disabling this "feature" is.  When a customer asks for something, a smart business doesn't respond by trying to tell the customer why they shouldn't want that instead of actually giving it to them.  And no, I'm not going to pay for a more expensive version of Windows so that I can use gpedit to disable this stupidity that never should have existed in the first place.  Trying to frustrate me into paying more isn't a great business plan, either.