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
    2019-10-17T11:02:03+00:00

    Guys,

    Go ahead and try these mid-Oct 2019 instructions. It worked like a charm for me. It's a simple file rename solution, took less than a minute to implement: 

    How to Prevent Windows 10 Auto-Restart – New Instructions (Oct 2019)

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-17T15:11:14+00:00

    Guys, Go ahead and try these mid-Oct 2019 instructions. It worked like a charm for me. It's a simple file rename solution, took less than a minute to implement:  How to Prevent Windows 10 Auto-Restart – New Instructions (Oct 2019)

    Hey guys - seriously: Is it possible that the most used PC operating system needs such kind of stupid scripting / tricking / behind the scenes working - in order to get this thing working in a reasonable and professional way?

    Yes - the new instructions of the month! Until Microsoft goes and finds another trick to avoid also this one. Imagine: there are options for doing the right thing already, but Microsoft decided to override them! But users may go and check the right things

    • and at first nothing happens. Because not every day a new version is installed - luckily. And then - boom! - one morning again you find your work up in the air...

    Sorry, but I cannot take this seriously. I am not an more angry or disappointed, I simply laugh about this kind of things by now... I simply know that everything can take a couple of days longer because of such things. So if time matters, don't do it on the Windows system. But of course I have to build, package and deploy my software on Windows of course because that is what customers want nowadays (still??). But for serious working - just forget it!

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-22T21:16:16+00:00

    recently while I was reading paper aside, twice, I noticed my PC( windows 10) was flashing... rebooting itself? like a ghost!

    Really frustrated about M$ Windows!

    Besides, my new X1 Carbon 7th crazy fan noise, blowing the hot air to my right hand while using mouse! As a IT expert myself, I checked all the process, cannot find clue, only find TONS of svchost.exe running, don't know what they are doing, and you cannot cancel the process either!

    So annoying!

    Based on the above 2 phantom phenomena, finally I have to agree people's conclusion:

    Windows is Virus!

    My next PC definitely goes to Apple Macbook & macOS!

    ----------------------------- Look at this HUGE list of svchost.exe running, yet more --------------------

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-13T05:38:31+00:00

    Pal, could you read at all? We want it DISABLED, and not just shift to other time.

    Yes, of course. Setup active hours.

    Start menu -- Settings app -- Update and Security -- Windows Update -- Change active hours

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-11-20T20:27:47+00:00

    Correct in that a lot of software do act this way, but it seems like you're insinuating that it must be done this way and that is not true.  some updates require a restart to be applied or processed because the software being updated must not be in use, which is fine, but why isn't there the ability to have it restart at the time of our choosing?  I'm a software developer and this really drives me nuts about Windows.  Someone said something later in this thread that rings perfectly true.  This is something Apple would do, which is why I hate them.  Give me my options and don't force me to do things I don't want to do.

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