Windows 11 reboots itself - Annoying!

Hi, I'm Independent Advisor, I'm here to help you.

Please try to disable automatic restart:

1.Launch Settings.

2.Go to System > About.

3.From Related links, select Advanced system settings.

4.In the System Properties window, open the Advanced tab and click Settings below Startup and recovery.

5.Below System failure, uncheck Automatically restart.

6.Click OK to save your new system settings.

Also try some following methods:

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-restarting/

I hope it helps, let me know if you need any further assistance.

Kind Regards,

Hania.

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I don't know if this will actually work or not, but after following the thread in this post I noticed "Settings -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options -> Notify me when a restart is required..." which was defaulted to 'off' on my very new HP machine. I've switched it to 'on' in hopes... I'm considering telling win11 that this is a metered connection as well since it supposedly won't download updates over metered connections.

I completely agree with the various points about MSFT breaking things that previously worked (fixing things not broken) and generally making a nuisance of themselves with all this auto-update-all-the-time ****. Perhaps a little more focus on important stuff and a little less on breaking stuff all the time? As others mentioned, i've lost countless hours of work due to these reboots just on this machine which was new in January.

Looking at the instructions below from Hania, the setting shown is in response to "System Failure", it seems odd to be the place to change a setting related to updates.

I'm frustrated with this auto-restart as I often have many open documents, and while the system does save and re-open these it does so under the recovery protocol which is a real pain to get back to the previous state. It should be possible to do this in a seamless way, save any open files as a temporary file, do the update and restart and re-open the file so it appears exactly as it was previously. Plus there are of course applications outside of the Windows world that don't recover at all, so there should still be easily accessible user controls that all a user to prevent an autostart.

Because Hania answered a different question. Hania's answer has to do with a system crash, which is irrelevant to the poster's question.

Your computer may be rebooting post update. If you have a task that needs to run uninterrupted longer than 24 hours then you can pause updates (if this is what is causing the reboots.)

Settings -> Windows Update -> Pause Updates