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Windows 10 unwanted reboots (avoiding them, that is)

Windows 10 (not 11, not yet!) has proven to be quite solid and in general friendly to have in the observatory… except for its awful tendency to reboot as it sees fit after downloading and installing an upgrade.

Last night I forgot updates were active again (after my last postponing) – and this morning I found the computer on, asking for a password, the session suddenly aborted last night.

While there are several tools to tame Windows 10, O&O ShutUp10++ being a very popular one ( https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 ), I have found a less scary way to accomplish the same. I want my computer to download and install upgrades, but not to reboot.

I followed the steps outlined here:

https://winbuzzer.com/2021/09/14/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-in-windows-10-after-a-windows-update-xcxwbt/

… let’s see if this proves to be a good solution!