How to disable automatic reboots in Windows 10?
Note: Unfortunately this appears to not work on Windows 10 Home, and I’m not sure of a workable solution for users of this edition.
I posted this as an answer on another question, but as that appears to be a duplicate of this question I’ll provide it here too:
You can edit your local group policy settings to force Windows update to only download updates, but wait for your input to install (and therefore reboot.)
Open your start menu and type Group, then click Edit group policy
Expand either (depending on Windows 10 or 11 version):
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Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Update
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or: Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Manage end user experiences \ Windows Update
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or: Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ All Settings
Double click Configure Automatic Updates and enable the policy, and configure it as needed.
Head back to Windows Update and click Check for updates. Once it is done, click on the Advanced options
You should see your new settings being ‘enforced.’
After applying this setting on a test VM, I left Windows Update open and noticed it started downloading.
When it finishes downloading, you get a toast notification that there are updates and you need to install them.
Note that you must click install now. Restarting or shutting down from the start menu does not appear to trigger the install process.
More info:
I’m not sure if editing Local Group Policy is an option in the Home edition of Windows 10, but the same result should be possible through the registry (I haven’t tested this as I used the policy method myself). Including this in case non-pro users come looking for an answer too.
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