Windows 10: Windows 11 update reboots are disabled. It rebooted anyway losing a day's work!!!

Windows 11 update reboots are disabled. It rebooted anyway losing a day's work!!!Disabled in gpedit.msc, confirmed in the registry. System was doing a 15 hour FEA task and it rebooted - that's a lot of wasted work lost for an unnecessary patch. How can I stop this cancer from happening?????

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FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

Ok I did another reboot, disabled windows update service, did step 3 again, this time it installed an update, enabled windows update service and did a reboot and voila!! *Peace eace:

 

Disable automatic reboot for updates

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

 

Disable automatic reboot on updates - Windows 10 Pro anniversary update

This may solve the problem:

How to permanently stop Windows 10 reboots after installing updates

In short:

• From Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Task Sheduler, disable the task Microsoft > Windows > UpdateOchrestra > Reboot.
• Rename the file C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot to Reboot.bak and create a folder named Reboot in its place.

I tried a variation on this which after disabling the task involved changing the file permissions on the Reboot file, which worked but did not survive an update. Perhaps renaming it and creating a folder of the same name will...