Outside of those active hours, the device should be able to automatically reboot after the updates. If the restart process has already been scheduled, after the last step from above, you should click on the Restart Options link and edit the Time and Day fields.
That way, you will be scheduling the restart for a time convenient to you for the disable automatic restart. Again, if updates were installed and you want to get the Windows 10 disable automatic restart, you can go to the Task Scheduler and then:. Method 3 — Disable automatic reboot from the Group Policy. The Group Policy editor can serve for many useful purposes and Windows 10 disable automatic restart is one of them. To set the time, you need to go to Configure Automatic Updates , select option 4 - Auto download and schedule the install , and then enter a time in the Scheduled install time dropdown.
Always automatically restart at the scheduled time forces a restart after the specified installation time and lets you configure a timer to warn a signed-in user that a restart is going to occur. While not recommended, the same result can be achieved through Registry.
For a detailed description of these registry keys, see Registry keys used to manage restart. When Configure Automatic Updates is enabled in Group Policy, you can enable one of the following additional policies to delay an automatic reboot after update installation:. Devices that do not have locally logged on users, or active RDP sessions, will be restarted. You can also use Registry, to prevent automatic restarts when a user is signed in.
As with Group Policy, if a user schedules the restart in the update notification, it will override this setting. Active hours identify the period of time when you expect the device to be in use.
Automatic restarts after an update will occur outside of the active hours. Users can change the active hours manually. Starting with Windows 10, version , you can also specify the max active hours range.
The specified range will be counted from the active hours start time. When the policy is enabled, you can set the start and end times for active hours.
Any settings configured through Registry may conflict with any existing configuration that uses any of the methods mentioned above. With Windows 10, version , administrators can specify the max active hours range users can set.
This option gives you additional flexibility to leave some of the decision for active hours on the user's side, while making sure you allow enough time for updating. The max range is calculated from active hours start time. After an update is installed, Windows 10 attempts automatic restart outside of active hours. If the restart does not succeed after seven days by default , the user will see a notification that restart is required. Once again, Windows has restarted without notifying me and caused me to lose some work.
I was typing note in Notepad, but had not yet transferred it to a Google Doc. Got up to get some water, when I came back my PC was rebooting. Text is gone. The Windows Update Blocker does exactly what it says on the tin: It prevents Microsoft from ever rebooting your PC to install updates or installing updates without permission. There are real reasons not to use this utility.
If you activate this utility and do not regularly turn it off to allow the machine to receive security updates, you risk being unprotected when new vulnerabilities appear. I can understand why this might be so — the company might be afraid of malware deliberately loading the CPU and GPU as a way to keep Windows Update from running.
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