Disable Windows 10 automatic restart after updates

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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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Anonymous

2020-03-14T18:42:55+00:00

I've had it restart while transferring data over SSH sessions, entire dev teams and global collaboration force waiting its finish to take cluster of geo-replicated servers from beta / staging to production = hundreds of thousands of dollars of man-hours wasted. - It just restarted while performing data recovery on a customer's fragile almost completely dead hard drive - it can't handle running at all unless for data recovery now...and that was wasted. I won't be trusting Microsoft to handle this for me ever again. Someone has to take charge. So far as I know: windows cannot programatically reboot without being able to call /Windows/System32/shutdown.exe with a "r" flag for reboot. Rename that file. Problem solved, so far as I know.
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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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Anonymous

2020-03-15T14:52:30+00:00
Hello my name is Bradford and I'm an Independent Advisor for the Microsoft Community and I will try to resolve your problem.

Click on the “Start” button and type

gpedit.msc

press Enter.

In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to

Computer Configuration ->

->Administrative Templates->

-> Windows Components->

-> Windows Update

Double-click on “No auto-restart with automatic installations of scheduled updates”.

Select "Enabled", and then click "OK".

Close the local group policy editor.

If the above steps don't have the effect you desired please let me know!
gpedit.msc does not exist

Also, typing anything on start just enters it in bing search. It does not call up a program or file.
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Anonymous

2020-03-15T15:03:11+00:00

This has been tried and proven not to work
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Anonymous

2020-03-15T15:23:03+00:00

Amen! Can I get a witness?
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