Windows 7 disable automatic updates reboot

Download updates but let me choose whether to install them : This option is suitable only if you have suitable bandwidth allowance but have limited hard drive space.

Windows will download the updates and then it will allow you to choose which updates are to be installed and which of them are to be discarded. Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them : Choosing this option, you allow Windows to scan for the available updates but it can only download and install them after you choose the ones to install. Never check for updates not recommended : Selecting this option will restrict Windows from searching, downloading or installing any updates.

Choosing this option will not lead to any system malfunction in any way. Disable Windows Update. Select "Never check for updates not recommended " from the bottom of the dropdown menu. Save your changes. Click the gray OK button at the bottom of the page. The IP address will display. Yes No. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 0. Press and hold power button for a few seconds turns off the PC , do that multiple times on boot, and windows startup repair should repair the broken system files and revert the update.

Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. Windows 7 is locked in trying to update and has been for long time. Cannot get it to close? If that happens, try typing this into cmd admin : net stop TrustedInstaller net stop wuauserv. This will stop Windows Update until the next reboot. There have certainly been others too. It's getting to the point that I think I'm going to have to manually check Windows Update settings after every windows update I manually approve!

This "feature", along with my other favourite Windows feature where pop-ups steal focus when you are typing away, and you dismiss them with a keystroke without even seeing what it is you agreed to or cancelled, drives me crazy! I so hate this "feature" that I first saw on Windows 7. I saw it when I came into work in the morning and clicked "postpone" because I had a lot of things open I needed to work on.

While I was eating my lunch, I watched Windows just begin to close everything!! Most of it I hit cancel and it just forced it closed, destroying all my unsaved work! There was no way to even stop the shutdown process once it started.

If it keeps nagging me, I will eventually run my system updates and reboot usually at the end of the week, like I do on my Mac , but forcing a reboot and killing all of a users data! This definitely shouldn't be enabled by default. Now I'm behind a few hours at work. Thanks for the post. I've disabled it, but noticed people mentioned in the comments this didn't work. Let's give this a shot and see what happens. Totally agree I'm not sure about the guys at Microsoft but a server "automatic" restarting without supervision by an administrator is one of the most senseless and dangerous things in a professional, productive server environment.

Really, on a mission critical system you don't want the system to decide for itself to perform a reboot. What if the system in question is a heart-monitor in an hospital IC station?

The default setting for any serious sysadm should be: no unsupervised reboots. A serious sysadm plans maintenance windows every month, week, or for my part day when the system is safely on the ground and a reboot is allowed.

Just disable automatic updates. Why should microsoft decide when you apply updates in the first place. Disable Auto Update? Most people will quickly forget that they did so and soon open themselves to all the nastiness the electronic frontier has to offer. Do not disable AU. The jerks of the world make new malware and find new exploits every day, the updates try to protect you from this. This does not specify which versions of Windows this applies to. It did not work for me on Windows 7.

Will this disable the prompts entirely or only to the value I set in the second setting? If I want to disable them entirely what should the settings be? Ron The fact that the post has a date of July should have been a pretty good indicator for you that it wasn't written with Windows 7 in mind. So am I right in understanding that there is no way to manage this popup permanently in XP? If that's the case, then I agree with Dave that it would be useful to have stated that in the article.

Why should I have to trawl through the comments to work that out, Ryan? I see there are various options for handling it at the time it happens, but I would like to sort out my parent's PC such that it pops up only every 4 hrs, and will never auto reboot without the user's OK. Isn't that possible? It's not clear from the comments. And it that's not possible then I'm dumbfounded. It's so obvious and following all the complaints didn't they introduce and XP update for this?

Another thing I do is, if it's not giving a countdown to auto restart, then I just leave the dialog at the side of the screen without clicking Now or Later. Very helpful with stopping the auto restart after an update.

I'm currently trying to restore files that were lost and didn't feel like baby-sitting my computer for hours to keep Windows from restarting. I can live with the pop up as long as it doesn't do anything I don't want it to do.

Will restart once the files are restored and the pop up will be history until next time, I guess. And I did not have to reboot for the change to take affect. Running Windows XP. I am proposing previous helpful replies as "Answered". Please feel free to try it and let me know the result.

If the reply is helpful, please remember to mark it as answer which can help other community members who have same questions and find the helpful reply quickly. The only work around I've got is connect requently and put the furthest date available in the scheduled reboot. The next seven days are offered so if you connect in two days, you will get two new days you can schedule your reboot.

It's not the most convenient way to postpone a reboot but it works I do understand the logic of having to reboot after doing certain important and maybe bulky updates but it is funny that we were able to just not reboot with previous versions of Windows Server but just has to reboot and schedule it right away.

I think it is Microsoft trying to enforce better stability. Despite telling people for years and years that they should not apply patches and then wait extended periods of time before rebooting, people continue to do it. Running a system that has been patched, yet not rebooted, is one way to have a less stable system.

Some files which do not need a reboot to take effect have been placed into operation. Other files which need a reboot to take effect have not been placed into operation. The stable environment wants all patched files in effect. Yes, the system works, but the longer it works in this manner, the higher the probability that something will occur that was not tested, as the tests include the content of the patch.

The counter argument is 'it is my system and I want to have full control of it', which is a valid point. But at the same time, the arguer will hold Microsoft accountable for any type of instability, even if they are not following Microsoft's recommendations for patch application. If you want to control reboots, implement a complete system that controls the application of patches. Then you can apply the patch at the time you will allow a reboot.

You are in complete control of the patch and the reboot, thereby satisfying the desire to have complete control of the system while at the same time ensuring your system is as stable as Microsoft can make it. After you finish all the steps above, you can successfully stop Windows 10 from rebooting after updates. The second way you can try is using Registry Editor to stop Windows 8. Follow the steps below to do this job. Step 4: Right-click Windows from the left panel, select New and then click Key to create a new key.

Name the new key WindowsUpdate. Name this new key AU. Once you complete the steps above, you can prevent Windows Update from automatically restarting your PC.