Windows 10: Why in the love of all things holy does Windows Update restart my PC specifically during...

Running Windows 11 Home on an HP desktop. I have never once had an update pending, left my PC on overnight and had it update and restart. Yet it always does it randomly during active hours and apparently while I'm in a game.

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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.

 

[Windows 10] hide/prohibit install of specific Windows Update

I have never intentionally used windows to provide my device drivers (except for older printers without Vendor drivers for clients). I only manually update from the vendor websites. Will just have to make a list of things to disable/remove if I finally decide to load it up on a machine.

 

PC restarts when playing GTA 5 and DotA 2 after Windows 10 Anniversary Update

I am not convinced this is a hardware issue and since this didnt start until after the win10 anniversary update. VDDC spikes like that dont mean anything, if just means GPU usage. Restarts can be from a number of things software related, if it happens only during gaming it could point to your Vcard, if it happens anytime even while AFK, it could suggest other things. There is also crash dumps, if you can decipher them could help you get an idea what to look at.

So, try to get and upload a log from CPU-z or Speccy (free) or Aida64 ($$??). I havent tried this but I heard that if you can connect to a phone,tablet or another pc, set the log to save to somewhere on that device (if enough space).

So try to eliminate reasons windows has to force a restart. Start with this:
1. Go into settings >Update/Security > windows update > advance options and change "Choose how updates installed" drop down box to "Notify to schedule restart".


If this didnt happen in Win7, reinstall it and dont upgrade until you can nail this down.