Is there some way to turn off auto restart in updates?

Question

Hi!

I was rendering a huge video in Vegas Pro 19 on my Windows 11 computer. This was a 4K video that would take some time (6 hours).

So I went to bed and the next morning my computer was restarted. The render was therefore canceled.

This is extremely annoying so is there a way to disable the auto restart?

I also checked before the render if there was any updates. If there is no way to deactivate the "active hours" can you please fix an option so you can turn this off?

Best Regards, Kristoffer.

Answer 1

Hello KristofferHolmberg,

I am Jaspreet Singh.

The only options will be to pause the updates and then do them when the system is free since that is the sure way of preventing them being done while the system is on and working.

Active hours can detect the no input situation where the system is still working on something as free time and will restart the system.

I would also recommend sending a feedback for this issue directly to the development team.

This is a user forum and hence Microsoft employees rarely visit here. Most of the user base is consumers like you and me.

Use the feedback hub and here are the steps to do so: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sen...

Answer 2

Thank you for the answer, I will send the feedback to Microsoft.

Answer 3

You are very welcome KristofferHolmberg. Have a nice day ahead.

Answer 4

Yes you can do this by editing the local group policy on your computer or by making a registry update. Once this is enabled, if you are logged into your computer it will not automatically restart for installed updates. If you are using Windows Home, you will have to go with the registry update route.

Be careful when making changes to the registry, modifying the registry can mess up your computer if done incorrectly.

Registry update(Windows 10/11):

• Open the Registry Editor
• Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
• Right click on the Windows and select New->Key, name the Key WindowsUpdate
• Right click on your newly created WindowsUpdate key and select New->Key, name this key AU
• Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value in AU called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers
• Update the value of NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers to 1

Local Group Policy(won't work for Windows Home):

• Open Gpedit.msc
• (For Windows 10) Navigate to Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - Windows Update
• (For Windows 11) Navigate to Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - Windows Update - Legacy Policies
• Enable No auto-restart with logged-on users for scheduled automatic updates
• Open a command prompt and run gpupdate /force