Windows 11 reboots itself - Annoying!

To be honest,

Microsoft should pay for our lost calculation times. The energy and time in Engineering cost counted. It is outrageous that programmers trap our society and steal our time and thoughts. WINDOWS SHOULD START IF THE USER WANT. We had paid for this system, can you imagine a car which is going home automatically when it is needed during driving on the highway. Ohh sorry, yes this time is coming. Programmers make buttons and checkboxes and don't ever **** change back the switched off no sound setting, it was set to be off on purpose. So Microsoft you owe me 5kEUR due to my interrupted calculation.

Thanks

This is a poor answer that doesn't account for OP's use-case: His restarts are due to Microsoft ramming their updates down our throats and forcing a restart of the system when it's not wanted.

1- Someone with VPN connections connected to a system can lose his telnet session because of this.

2- Also, I was running a program in debug mode in Visual Studio which was closed by the update. This can cause a loss of data or file corruption because I might not have made a save operation before the update too place.

I don't know why Microsoft wouldn't set it to confirm the acquiescence of the user before rebooting by default in the settings. If people leave their computers on they often have something in progress for the next day and rebooting it automatically is generally not a convenient time unless the user can properly log out of sites and close certain apps after saving.

A third point of annoyance at this reboot without asking policy by default is that I turn off my screen if I leave my computer on to use it the next day so it won't burn out. It would be courteous of Microsoft to leave it in the same state otherwise my screen will burn out far faster than it otherwise would. Some users might be waken up in the middle of the night by the bright light of the screen coming on it's very inconsiderate of them.

Use group policy editor to configure automatic updates and disable the automatic reboot

Open run prompt:

windows + r

Open:

gpedit.msc

Access: (text labels may vary slightly as I am translating from a Norwegian windows installation)

Computer configuration -> Administrative templates -> Windows components -> Windows update -> Administrate enduserexperience

Right click on "Configure automatic updates" and select "edit".

Select "activate", Select "2 - Notify for download and automatic install". Click "ok".

Done.

First thing I ever do on a new install.

If you have Home edition you propably have to install Group policy editor first:

Press windows-button.

Type " cmd" and select run as administrator.

Copy and paste the following lines into the command prompt that opens.

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )
FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )

To update:

Press windows-key and enter "windows update", Select "look for updates" and click "look for updates/install updates".

Note:

If you let windows do an update, chances are it may reboot.

Don't update unless you intend to reboot,

What is wrong with Microsoft? I have a new computer Windows 11. It evidently downloaded an update without asking and just spontaneously restarted in the middle of my crossword puzzle. I shouldn't have to disable idiotic things like this in the first place. Windows 7 worked just fine in this respect. It told me when it wanted to install an update and I had control over when that happened. I wish they would quit trying to fix things that aren't broken in the first place. I shut down my computer when I am not using it, it save electricity and I don't need any of this nonsense.