Disable Windows 10 automatic restart after updates

Hello,

Try the process below:

1. Press Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command.
2. Type the following path and click "OK":

%windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator

3. Select the

Reboot ) (it does not have an extension)

file right-click it and select "Rename".

4. Rename the Reboot file to "Reboot.old".
5. Right-click inside the folder, select "New," and click on "Folder".
6. Name the New Folder "Reboot".
7. Now restart your computer.

This will disable Window's ability to restart automatically.

If this solution has the desired effect let me know.

This is what I've had to do (the UpdateOrchestrator option posted by Omoikane1122).

To the other answers:

Active Hours are not a valid solution.  I leave my computer with long running processes over night, and I come back in the morning and discover my system rebooted.  This has cost me a lot of time and money.

S_and_S:

Yes, we can acknowledge that updates require restarts.  Nag me about doing them, that's fine, but DO NOT do it without my permission.  This is MY machine and the tasks I left running on it are MY livelihood.

I have the same issue. I am running computer simulations on my machine which take hours to days. You come back to your machine and it has rebooted, hussah! This is my machine and if I want to use it to make a living I don't want to lose work just because you morons think that an automatic reboot is a funny idea!

I don't want to change active hours. I tried the UpdateOrchestrator option but it already says "Disabled" for reboot, so that obviously doesn't work. And I don't have Windows 10 Pro so I can't use the gpedit option.

GET RID OF THIS F.....G BEHAVIOUR!

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.

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.