Windows 10: Any way to get a warning before Windows updates and reboots?

Windows seems to obey my active hours set under Settings > Windows Update. But I would like to know ahead of time if my work computer is going to reboot while I'm away. I have tried various times over the years to disable automatic updates and rebooting by Windows Update, and sometimes that worked for a while, but that no longer works. The "Pause updates for X days" feature is better than nothing, but really not ideal. I understand the reason for updating periodically and I've always done that manually. But it is very disruptive to me when reboots occur without my knowledge. I usually leav

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Windows Update suddenly hangs?

Windows Update is suddenly hanging for some reason... I went and downloaded and installed the first bunch of updates, restarted when asked, and now when I go back to windows update I just get the window with a white box forever. Reboot and it still does it. This happens to be on my main machine, running windows 7.

I've also noticed when I reboot it says configuring windows update, step 3 of 3, 47%. Maybe it somehow skipped something and is screwed forever?

 

FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

Ok I did another reboot, disabled windows update service, did step 3 again, this time it installed an update, enabled windows update service and did a reboot and voila!! *Peace eace:

 

windows 10 reboots without warning

The article that you suggested be looked at applies to versions of windows prior to the one that I am having an issue with.

The version that keeps rebooting without warning and without any error message is this latest version, (windows 10) and this started to happen about several updates ago.

There has been no additional software added to this unit since that update or since windows 10 was installed on this unit.

There were no crashes like this prior to that update with this version of windows and the currently installed software.

Windows 10 was working just fine until then.

Because your updates are not readily visible to the end user, it is only a guess as to which one seems to be at the root of this issue.

There is a possibility that this is a hardware failure with a memory chip, however diagnostics have indicated that there is no issues with any of the installed hardware.

What is next on your list?