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
    2020-01-06T17:09:02+00:00

    gpedit.msc is not available on my machine.

    Windows 10 Home,

    The random reboots are unacceptable and unprofessional and if I did not need Windows for my professional work I would remove it completely.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-15T13:55:10+00:00

    There is ONE way to do this that works. I think I may get in trouble for it, but here it goes.

    There is an option to use 3rd party software to stop the entire update process. I use it for virtual machines that need to be frozen in a certain state, MS's ideas about what I do with my PC be damned.

    These programs use only one big button that makes it stop and go and, unlike other patchable programs, this one has a background task that "repairs" the setting you put there in case anyone tries to break it.

    As Google says, if you want to stop updates the best way to do it is to look for a 3rd party solution. I think GREAT IS the company that allows user choice.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-15T18:35:50+00:00

    worst thing about windows 10 are these random restarts. you really think a non-higher level user would take the time to disable this? horrible! add an option to disable with one that has annoying pop up reminders which can't be disabled. i lose sh it all the time, my pc working hours are 24/7 and i use enterprise, NOT HOME 10!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-16T18:29:56+00:00

    6 pages of comments with no solution from MS. I lost 2 weeks of scientific simulations! Probably I'm a winner in this category. I pay money for notebook, for OS and can't control it! I should find a way to crack this OS to stop auto-restarts! Why? Why??? Is it so difficult to show notification in tray area that restart is required to finish updates??? I'm a developer and can say it's simplest solution. Just let the user to decide where it's safe to restart their own PC! I'm so angry and so upset! I just don't understand a motivation of doing this with their customers. For what? What is the benefit of doing this for MS? My new OS will be Ubuntu, definitely. Never ever install MS Windows on my computer.

    I would imagine if my car decided to turn off the control during the turn at 60 mph.

    P.S. Do not suggest me to use an option to pause updates for N days (someone wrote about 35 days but I see only 7 in my Updates settings), it would not help in my case. And moreover I don't want to think about this, I have lots of much more interesting things to think about instead of turn on and off updates all the time.

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