Windows 10: Disabling Windows Update Forced Restarts

Greetings,


It's well known that Windows Update will force computers to restart on occasion.


As a professional DJ, this has *RUINED* numerous live performances that make use of my Windows computer.


I'd like to know how to disable these forced restarts.


It is my understanding that changing the 0 value found at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU"to a 1, should do the trick, however this file location/path does not exist on my machine. The"\...WindowsUpdate\AU"portion of the path is nowhere to be found within "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows".


I find these forced restarts, as well as the convoluted nature of the task of disabling them, to be *extremely* frustrating.


I've literally lost income and fans because of this...


Please help.


Thank you!


PS: Many people who depend on Windows for their livelihood and/or well being have complained to me of the damaging nature of these forced restarts. They're sincerely uncool. Windows team:PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!

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Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.

Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

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Windows 10 update being enabled.

Sounds like task scheduler forces it to restart, course in svc.msc i make sure to deselect it from restarting after it fails.