Windows 10: Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Windows 10


Information A blue screen of death error (also called a stop error) can occur if a problem causes your PC to shut down or restart unexpectedly (aka: crash). When you experience this type of error, you won’t be able to see things like the Start menu or the taskbar on the screen when your PC is turned on. Instead you might see a blue screen with a message that your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.

This tutorial will show you different ways on how to enable or disable automatically restart computer on a BSOD system failure in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to enable or disable BSOD automatic restart.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Startup and Recovery Settings
• Option Two: To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Command Prompt
• Option Three: To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart using a REG file
• Option Four: To Temporarily Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Advanced Startup Settings at Boot

EXAMPLE: BSOD








OPTION ONE [/i] To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Startup and Recovery Settings

1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe, and click/tap on OK to open advanced System Properties.

2. Click/tap on the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. (see screenshot below)



3. Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) the Automatically restart box under System failure for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)



4. You can now close advanced System Properties if you like.




OPTION TWO [/i] To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Command Prompt
1. Open an elevated command prompt.

2. Enter the command below you want to use into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)
(To enable BSOD automatic restart - default)
*Arrow wmic RecoverOS set AutoReboot = True

OR

(To disable BSOD automatic restart)
*Arrow wmic RecoverOS set AutoReboot = False
3. When finished, you can close the elevated command prompt.











OPTION THREE [/i] To Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart using a REG file


Note The .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

AutoReboot DWORD

0 = Disable
1 = Enable


1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable BSOD Automatic Restart
NOTE: This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_BSOD_automatic_restart.reg

Download

3. To Disable BSOD Automatic Restart
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_BSOD_automatic_restart.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. If prompted, click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.




OPTION FOUR [/i] To Temporarily Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Advanced Startup Settings at Boot


Note This option will only temporarily disable BSOD automatic restart until the next time the computer is restarted. After you restart the computer, BSOD automatic restart will be enabled again unless you used option 1, 2, or 3 above to disable it.


1. Boot to Advanced Startup options.

2. Click/tap on Troubleshoot. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Advanced options. (see screenshot below)



4. Click/tap on Startup Settings. (see screenshot below)



5. Click/tap on the Restart button. (see screenshot below)



6. When the PC has finished restarting to Startup Settings, press either the F9 or 9 key to select Disable automatic restart after failure. (see screenshot below)



7. The PC will now boot to Windows 10 with BSOD automatic restart disabled until the next time the computer is restarted.

That's it,
Shawn


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Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

We understand how you feel about the situation. We're sorry for the trouble.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• 
  Open the System Properties.
  
• 
  On the Advanced tab, under the Startup and Recovery section click on the Settings button.
  
• 
  Under the System failure section check
  the automatically restart checkbox.
  
• 
  Click OK to close the startup and system properties windows and save changes.
  

Hope this helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.

Thanks.