1 How to Disable Windows 10 Auto Restart Using Group Policy Editor2 How to Stop Automatic Restart in Windows 10 Using Registry Editor3 How to Stop Your Computer from Restarting After an Update with Task Scheduler4 How to Pause Windows 10 Updates or Limit Their Bandwidth
Should you stop Windows 10 auto-restart? Before we continue, though, we should point out the obvious. You should still restart your PC after an update at your earliest convenience. If you don’t, the changes will not apply. If you’re the type of person who puts your PC in standby mode at night instead of turning it off, make sure you account for this.
How to Disable Windows 10 Auto Restart Using Group Policy Editor
How to Stop Automatic Restart in Windows 10 Using Registry Editor
If you don’t have access to the Group Policy Editor because you’re on Windows 10 Home, you can make the same changes through your Registry Editor. This is a little more complex, but completely safe so long as you follow our safe registry editing instructions.
Windows should no longer auto restart when it has finished downloading an update. To make sure the setting has applied, though, we should check our Windows Updates page.
However, we should also enable the “No auto-restart” policy to ensure the PC does not automatically restart should this fail or you manually initiate an update install.
You should receive the message Computer Policy update has completed successfully. User Policy update has completed successfully.
How to Stop Your Computer from Restarting After an Update with Task Scheduler
In your sidebar on the left, right-click the “Windows” folder and choose “New > Key”.
Now a Windows 10 auto restart should not occur when an update completes.
There’s a task that’s already scheduled in Task Scheduler in your system that tells Windows to restart after an update. We can simply disable this task as a method to stop your computer from restarting without your input. Here’s how:
In your main pane, find the “Reboot_AC” task, right-click it, and press “Disable”. This will stop Windows 10 restarting when your laptop or PC is plugged into the mains.
How to Pause Windows 10 Updates or Limit Their Bandwidth
That’s all for today. You should now know how to stop automatic restart in Windows 10 regardless of your operating system edition. However, there are more tweaks yet that you can make to your Windows Update settings. Why not follow our guide on how to pause or defer quality updates and limit bandwidth for Windows update downloads?
