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Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a
by mdek 9y ago
Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even during the "active hours" period. This is especially infuriating when I do most of my work in a vbox slackware VM and win10 is just a host that I want to stay out of the way; instead I lose my entire current state. This seems like a major defect for either a "Pro" or "Pro for Workstations" version
Has anyone found a reliable way to disable automatic reboots for Windows 10 Pro? My registry mods have all eventually stopped working.
- detaro 9y agoI set the group policy to ask the user before installation and never had a problem. It still wants to reboot after you install the update, but since it only installs the update when you tell it to it's effectively manual control.
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- cillian64 9y agoI seem to recall there's a way to do this with group policy editor. I'd expect this to be more supported/proper than via the registry. But I can't remember where in group policy the setting is found, and am purely speculating at its reliability.
- Macuyiko 9y agoFor reference, this SO post has the steps: https://superuser.com/questions/957267/how-to-disable-automatic-reboots-in-windows-10 https://superuser.com/questions/957267/how-to-disable-automa...
- nailer 9y agoThanks. Would happily pay $5 for someone to write a current-Windows UI for enabling and disabling this.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoRebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advice.
- cm2187 9y agoSounds like a Windows 98 advice...
- pidg 9y agoProblem: I do not like that the computer reboots automatically. Solution: Reboot computer manually.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoIt's simple fact that Windows needs to reboot to install updates. Does it suck? Yes! Is it a necessary part of life if you choose to use Windows? Also yes. People seem to complain about Windows rebooting outside of their control. This fixes that problem, and it's not like most people need their computer to be on when they're asleep anyway.
- FussyZeus 9y agoI get around this by having my machine back up to our NAS each night and shutting down when finished. Cuts down on the power bill too.
- hungerstrike 9y agoIt's also a part of life on my Macs, just not as often since it seems like they don't get updates as often as my Windows machines.
- intoverflow2 9y agoGet this is OS X too these days during the early hours. Computer wont even be idle I'll literally be typing and suddenly my apps will start closing left and right as OS X has decided its time to update/reboot. Classic example of Metrics Driven Design, if you start scoring a team's performance on how many people update to the latest version then the methods of forcing an update become more and more intrusive. No wonder Apple always boasts such great update percentages for iOS, the thing practically bullies you into updating, I had a 4S for a long time and had to dismiss multiple nags a day to update and threats to delete apps to make space for the precious update.
- cjsuk 9y agoThat only happens if you tick all the boxes in the app store preferences window. And that's not the default. So you had to tick it.
- intoverflow2 9y agoIt is by default I'm actually sitting on a fresh install as of a week ago on my work machine. It probably retains a legacy setting if you updated but this is straight from Apple. I never even knew that preference box existed.
- x0 9y agoWhat the hell setting do you have enabled where OS X does that? It doesn't even tell me about updates, I have to go check them manually in the App Store (which segfaults about half the time)
- fdkz 9y agoI just disable the windows update service under "Services" and re-enable once every two weeks (and run the Windows Update GUI to click "search for updates" or what's it called) to keep everything up-to-date. Has worked without problems for the last year.
- dhd415 9y agoSame here. I've found that all the other registry and policy methods eventually stopped working for me whereas disabling the update service has worked reliably for 9+ months.
- dhimes 9y agoThey should just copy a linux distro. Mint would be a good one. Have a little icon that tells me when I'm out of date, then I can click it and update at my convenience. I think iphone does this, right? To operate their OS? So it is possible to make this work for "normal" users, whomever they are.
- agentdrtran 9y agoMint can't auto-upgrade, so I don't think they're a good example...
- dhimes 9y agoNo- it tells you when you need to upgrade so you can do it manually. That's the point. (Sorry for the late reply.)
- pbowyer 9y ago> > Has anyone found a reliable way to disable automatic reboots for Windows 10 Pro? My registry mods have all eventually stopped working. Yes. https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker. A little program that runs in the background and continually changes the time window when updates would be allowed to exclude the next period. Like you I run VMs and they don't always cleanly shut down when Windows decides to do its thing... no problems since installing the above. I've set it up on my parents computer, my wife's, and it works on them all.
- b3lvedere 9y agoThanks. I will try this.
- frik 9y agoDowngrade to the better Win7, or use Linux as host and Win in a VM.
- midnitewarrior 9y agoSounds like you haven't used Win10 for more than a week. Win10 is quite good, but there are a few annoyances.
- 0x445442 9y agoHonest question... In what ways is 10 markedly better than 8.1? I was auto upgraded when 10 came out but got fed up in short time and rolled back.
- b3lvedere 9y agoSmaller footprint. Better stability. Nicer drivers (although i'd like to use my own unsigned drivers from time to time). Granted, Windows 10 needs a HUGE LOT of tweaking to get optimised results (horrible horrible bloatware and privacy shit). You also may need a bunch of tools to get it to your liking. But when it is tweaked to your liking, it runs smooth. An i3 on SSD boots to desktop within 15 seconds.
- midnitewarrior 9y agoTurn on metered Internet. This is supposed to disable automatic Windows Update downloads. I have not tested this personally.
- sfilipov 9y agoTested and it works, as long as you haven't finished downloading and applying the updates.
- dhimes 9y agoThis happened to me last night. I was so pissed this morning. I got used to making sure I never left things on over a Tuesday night because they do updates, but this caught me on a Thursday. Hopefully this will be the year of the Linux desktop......
- tootie 9y agoThere are currently two great options for running Linux and still having a productive desktop experience. One is ChromeOS the other is Win 10 with Linux subsystem and an Ubuntu image. Been using both for a little while now and they are really nice.
- tsomctl 9y agoGo into Services, stop the Windows update service, then disable it. I did this a year ago and have never had a random reboot.
- MrMember 9y agoI've had mixed success with this method. It works for a while but every couple of months I'll find my computer restarted and the service has been mysteriously re-enabled.