Windows 10 - Prevent Automatic Restart? (Warning: ranting)

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Taqyon

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Recently Windows 10 is forcing restarts after updates, which they call a feature. It simply kills all open apps and restarts the machine to apply the updates. This means all open, unsaved work and processes are lost, which is madness. Heaven forbids you're busy on a presentation to a room full of clients...

I know you can schedule the restart to after hours, but this means you have to close all your applications every time you suspect you might not be able to race back to your PC in time to do it.

Does anyone know how to disable this insanity? I've come across a registry fix: (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update set to 3) but I'm not certain it works and surely there must be a "normal" way to set this?

It seems us plebs that only paid R2400 for Home edition have fewer options.

Rant continues..

I sometimes wish I could be a fly on the wall of these meetings at Microsoft just to understand how they deem an update on an obscure software element (that I probably don't even use) so important that it merits the loss of hours of work by the user.

New technology needs to make life simpler and easier, not more difficult?

Microsoft is slowly removing more and more reasons for us to stay with them.
 
Taqyon said:
Microsoft is slowly removing more and more reasons for us to stay with them.
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There's your answer right there. Work out which other OS besides Windows meets your usage requirements and then move to it. You could run both OS's side by side to make sure it works for you and then move permanently.
 
I see they are pushing this updates & restarts thing hard these days
 
vinodh said:
There's your answer right there. Work out which other OS besides Windows meets your usage requirements and then move to it. You could run both OS's side by side to make sure it works for you and then move permanently.
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We're still not there I'm afraid, many core software I use only run on PC (or weakly support other OSes) and my clients in the corporate office world is still Microsoft dominated. The situation is the same 10 years ago.

So there's no non-hack way to stop windows from losing our work?
 
Why don't you just stop Windows updating automatically and then update it manually when it's convenient?
 
Taqyon said:
Recently Windows 10 is forcing restarts after updates, which they call a feature. It simply kills all open apps and restarts the machine to apply the updates. This means all open, unsaved work and processes are lost, which is madness. Heaven forbids you're busy on a presentation to a room full of clients...

I know you can schedule the restart to after hours, but this means you have to close all your applications every time you suspect you might not be able to race back to your PC in time to do it.

Does anyone know how to disable this insanity? I've come across a registry fix: (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update set to 3) but I'm not certain it works and surely there must be a "normal" way to set this?

It seems us plebs that only paid R2400 for Home edition have fewer options.

Rant continues..

I sometimes wish I could be a fly on the wall of these meetings at Microsoft just to understand how they deem an update on an obscure software element (that I probably don't even use) so important that it merits the loss of hours of work by the user.

New technology needs to make life simpler and easier, not more difficult?

Microsoft is slowly removing more and more reasons for us to stay with them.
Click to expand...

vinodh said:
Why don't you just stop Windows updating automatically and then update it manually when it's convenient?
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Sl8er said:
This.
I guess it's just easier to rant instead of googling stuff these days.
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Not that.
http://www.howtogeek.com/219166/you...-or-delay-windows-updates-on-windows-10-home/
 
Windows Key + R -> gpedit.msc -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update -> Configure Automatic Updates -> Enabled -> Set Configure automatic updating to 2 or 3.
 
Taqyon said:
Recently Windows 10 is forcing restarts after updates, which they call a feature. It simply kills all open apps and restarts the machine to apply the updates. This means all open, unsaved work and processes are lost, which is madness. Heaven forbids you're busy on a presentation to a room full of clients...

I know you can schedule the restart to after hours, but this means you have to close all your applications every time you suspect you might not be able to race back to your PC in time to do it.

Does anyone know how to disable this insanity? I've come across a registry fix: (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update set to 3) but I'm not certain it works and surely there must be a "normal" way to set this?

It seems us plebs that only paid R2400 for Home edition have fewer options.

Rant continues..

I sometimes wish I could be a fly on the wall of these meetings at Microsoft just to understand how they deem an update on an obscure software element (that I probably don't even use) so important that it merits the loss of hours of work by the user.

New technology needs to make life simpler and easier, not more difficult?

Microsoft is slowly removing more and more reasons for us to stay with them.
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Buys Home license
Uses it for presentations to clients

Complains about lack of pro features.
 
Taqyon said:
We're still not there I'm afraid, many core software I use only run on PC (or weakly support other OSes) and my clients in the corporate office world is still Microsoft dominated. The situation is the same 10 years ago.

So there's no non-hack way to stop windows from losing our work?
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Revert to older Windoze 7 SP1, as many people did already.

Disable automatic updates to prevent Microsoft from installing 'Telemetry'. It is one switch, no buls$^t.
 
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