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
    2019-08-14T07:04:07+00:00

    You can install gpedit on W10 Home using the gpedit_msc.zip; file form here http://woshub.com/group-policy-editor-gpedit-msc-for-windows-10-home/

    However I'm not sure it's gonna help you as GPEdit is just UI to the registry values mentioned above.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-14T12:28:51+00:00

    To run Donny's gpedit, I had to use start -> run then type in: %windir%\SysWOW64\gpedit.msc

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-02T23:16:11+00:00

    Any update on this - I'm so bl$%dy sick of coming back to my PC in the morning and it having restarted overnight without my permission? VERY SICK OF THIS

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-09-11T16:17:55+00:00

    The registry edit doesn't work on me. The No auto-restart... is set at enable and I restarted my PC. The next day, it was restarted. So annoying.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-09-12T14:11:02+00:00

    I don't mind restarting my PC to keep it up-to-date.  The problem comes in if the restart happens automatically in the middle of the night without me even knowing a restart is coming. 

    I just turned on a setting (that appears to have been off(!!) by default on my Windows 10 Pro) called "Update Notifications" (Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating).   I hope that helps to at least reduce the "surprise" restarts.

    This is under Settings > Windows Update > Advanced Options

    Why this is off by default is beyond me.

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