Stop Windows Update from restarting your PC automatically

This morning I woke up to find my PC turned on. Not unusual you might think, but when you consider that I had been encoding a DVD with the program set to "Shut down when complete", it was.

What had happened (and seems to happen more and more often) was that windows had automatically updated it’sself and then restarted my PC. Not a big deal you might think, but it starts to be a big deal when you often go to sleep while your pc downloads and seeds torrents, or encodes avi files to DVD, it can quickly become very annoying and so I went in search of a way to disable it.

[b]Disable Automatic Restart[/b]

After a few minutes of rephrasing my problem in google a [url=http://www.aeonity.com/frost/remove-automatic-restart-after-windows-updates]solution was found[/url].

1: Click Start > Run.
2: Type "gpedit.msc" and press enter.
3: Navigate to "Local Computer Policy" > "Computer Configuration" > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Windows Update"
4: Double click the entry "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"
5: Select "Enabled" from the three options and press OK.
6: Close all open windows and restart your computer. Automatic updates should now run without automatically restarting your PC and giving control back to you.

I hope this helped someone because it was invaluable to me
Stephen

1 Comment

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  By Alejandro, September 23, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

  Stephen, thanks a lot for this. It’s very annoying to find your computer on or restarted when shouldn’t be like this.

  Thx again.
  Alejandro

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