Comments on: 4 Ways to Disable Windows 10 Automatic Restart

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:34:24 +0000

Wow, that’s a lot of complicated steps just to stop my computer from automatically restarting itself every night after it automatically updates itself.

By: WK

WK — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:55:57 +0000

This is the best article I have found on disabling auto restart. One issue: the HTML markup for the following commands is not displayed correctly. It comes out as:
“gpupdate /force”
“gpedit.msc”
(disregard previous message)

By: Mistee

Mistee — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:54:23 +0000

I just tried doing this and it told me that ‘under this account you do not have permission to perform this action’ or some such. But I am the administrator as it is /my/ computer. How do I not have access, and how do I give myself access to do this? This is literally the only thing I can’t change to stop my computer from rebooting every single night due to an update that continuously fails to go through.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:00:21 +0000

Does this methods also prevent Windows 10 from auto-restarting while in hibernation / sleep mode? I always put my computer on hibernation / deep sleep before I go to sleep. Sometimes, I wake up and see that it’s on, and on the log-on screen.

When entering the Event Viewer, I see that auto restart due to update(s) has taken place during night. I have the “No auto-restart with logged on users..” in gpedit.msc before, but this doesn’t seem to have had effect.

Maybe users are not considered “logged in” when session is disconnected (computer is in sleep mode*) … ? Can’t find any other logical explanation to this!

By: SZ

SZ — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:15:00 +0000

@Clayto
My advise is to avoid Windows Home completely. Computers where Windows Home is preinstalled are usually consumer grade quality and thus build-quality is substantially lower, especially for laptops.
Computers which have Windows Professional (previously Windows Business) pre-installed are usually business grade computers. Next to better build-quality they are easier for maintenance, e.g. for repair of a defective hard disk, upgrading memory or installing extra storage (an extra hard-disk or ssd inside a desktop pc of 17″ laptop, replacing hdd/ssd with a larger one in a 15″ or smaller laptop) is easier on a business grade computer. Business grade computers often can be opened with less or without tools, and especially on laptops one needs to remove less components to reach the memory slotss, storage bays or defective components.

By: bepi

bepi — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:11:38 +0000

none of the proposed options worked for me , it still reboots itself whenever it wants

By: Subhan Zafar

Subhan Zafar — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:48:05 +0000

In reply to Clayto.

Hello Clayto,
You can install the Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 Home edition using this article: https://www.itechtics.com/easily-enable-group-policy-editor-gpedit-msc-in-windows-10-home-edition/

By: Clayto

Clayto — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:18:49 +0000

At least you do mention GPEditor is not by default available in Home. My only attempt to install and use it years ago ended in a mess. I was advice to keep clear of it in Home.