Windows 10: Disable automatic reboot for updates

Windows 10 seems to like rebooting without my permission - such as when I have a fullscreen game open, and I also miss the notification to postpone. How do I disable this? I don't have windows pro and thus cant use gpedit. The registry keys various pages suggested editing don't seem to exist.

I don't want to turn off windows update, I just want my laptop to never ever restart on its own, its a ridiculous "feature".

Any help much appreciated

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Disable automatic reboot on updates - Windows 10 Pro anniversary update

The WAU is for the most part a clean install. That's why you have a "Go back to an earlier build" option that is good for 10 day's and the corresponding Windows.old folder to go along with it, for 10 day's.

The experience of others proves that such settings as gp are not reverted but set to default, by default.

 

Disable automatic reboot on updates - Windows 10 Pro anniversary update

Just one more reason to not like Windows. As a web developer I also cannot have my system rebooting in the middle of the night. It takes me 20 minutes in the morning just to get my IDE, shell consoles, browser windows opened back up and functional whenever
a reboot is required. MAJOR productivity hit! After my latest encounter with the un-solicited reboot I've decided to install Linux and dual boot Windows, only booting into Windows when I absolutely need it, and running Windows dev VMs in Linux for testing
Edge and IE. No easy way to disable auto-reboot? Really Microsoft? This is SUCH a stupid idea.

 

I thought it was set to reboot next day as default...mine is..I hated it when it used to reboot without telling me..

Len

 

It's alot easier than that

Go to SETTINGS
Updates and Security
Updates
Advanced options

Choose how Updates are installed
Notify to schedule restart

Good Luck

 

No, it isn't. The last few times the notification was missed, as i had something full screen, so windows scheduled it all by itself, and promptly restarted without telling me. I want to permanently disable windows' ability to restart by itself

 

Mine is exactly the opposite. Its now got two cum updates scheduled, been running the whole time, no manual schedule set, and it won't force restart. I actually need for it to force restart because it's an unattended pc.

 

see here: Solved Disable automatic reboot for updates - Windows 10 Forums (duplicate post) for soln to this - you may be able to rework the solution to suit your needs