Prevent Windows 10 Update Automatic Reboot Keeping Windows up-to-date is paramount in ensuring that your system is secure. Many viruses and malware exploit vulnerabilities in Windows to allow them to gain access to your system’s sensitive files and information or even gain total control over your PC. Thankfully, Microsoft does a good job of patching these vulnerabilities in a timely manner. And how do they deliver these patches? Through Windows Update. That’s good and all, however, there’s this problem that is common in Windows Update where it will randomly and automatically reboot your computer whenever a new update requires it, resulting in users losing their work. It’s a very frustrating experience. However, it’s actually not as bad as before. Back in the earlier days, updates could cause BSoDs, errors, incompatibilities, and file corruption. This pushed tons of users to delay updating Windows — which is not a very good idea in terms of security. The developers at Microsoft, however, have made countless improvements to this process, which made Windows Updates much better. The former issues now occur very less frequently, if at all. There are now fewer reasons to delay updating Windows. But one problem seemed to never cease to exist: the random automatic reboots. However, that’s a common misconception in recent versions of Windows 10. People still think that Windows will randomly automatically reboot whenever an update requires it and that you need to do advanced tweaks to prevent it, but that’s no longer the case. Let’s take a look at two methods to prevent or control automatic reboot for Windows Update. Improve The Reliability Of A Computer System Prevent Windows Update Automatic Reboot via Active Hours Starting in Windows 10 build 1346, which was released back in 2016, a new feature called Active Hours was released.
This allows you to configure your active hours (a.k.a. the times when you actively use your PC) which will prevent Windows Update from automatically rebooting your PC.