Windows 10: Choose When to Restart for Windows Update in Windows 10

How to: Choose When to Restart for Windows Update in Windows 10

Choose How Updates are Installed for When to Restart Windows 10


Warning This tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 10 build 14316 released on April 6th 2016.

The new feature for this is:

• How to Change Active Hours for Windows Update in Windows 10
• How to Schedule a Restart Time for Windows Update in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Show More Windows Update Restart Notifications in Windows 10

Information In Windows 10, updates will be automatically downloaded and installed whenever they’re available. (Unless you’re on a metered connection, in which case the updates won’t download until you opt to get them.)

Sometimes your PC may need to restart to finish installing the updates. To prevent those restarts from happening at the most inconvenient time, you can choose how updates are installed.

Automatic (recommended) = Keep everything running smoothly. Windows will restart your device automatically when you're not using it. Updates won't download over a metered connection (where charges may apply).

Notify to schedule restart = You'll be asked to schedule a restart to finish installing updates. Updates won't download over a metered connection (where charges may apply).


This tutorial will show you how to choose how updates are installed for when to restart the PC to finish installing updates in Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: Windows Update "A restart has been scheduled"






Here's How:

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & recovery icon.

2. Click/tap on Advanced options on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3. In the drop down menu under Choose how updates are installed, select Automatic (default) or Notify to schedule restart for what you want. (see screenshot below)



4. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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I want to change when Windows 10 updates are applied?

WYSIWYG.

If you're running Win10 Home edition, you can't change the time updates are installed - you can't choose which updates are installed either.

You CAN choose when your computer restarts after an update's installed (vs. restarting automatically). See

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-choose-how-updates-are-installed

Nice, huh?

 

Receiving "error 0xc1900204" when attempting to update Windows 10

Hello,

I am receiving an error message "error 0xc1900204" when attempting to update Windows 10 on my laptop. When I attempt to update, Windows states that updates are available.

These are the updates: • Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3163017).

• Upgrade to Windows 10 Home, version 1511, 10586.

When I choose to install the updates, Windows will download and install the updates and then I'll choose to restart. When the computer restarts, I recieve the message that Windows is installing the updates, it restarts again and then says "We couldn't complete
the updates. Undoing Changes." After this, it says the reason is "error 0xc1900204". My laptop keeps freezing on certain programs and this update is supposed to fix that but it just won't happen.

I'm running Windows 10 Home with an Nvidia GTX970M GPU, 16 GB of RAM, Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (64 bit) with a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

Thoughts?