Hello everybody!
In this video, I’m going to show you how to disable automatic restart in a Windows
operating system, what makes a computer restart and how to fix this problem.
A computer suddenly restarting while you’re doing some important work is probably one
of the most unpleasant things to face.
There are many things to cause it, ranging from incorrect configuration to hardware issues.
Causes If it happens while your computer is still
booting, it can be a hardware conflict.
Functionality issues can cause regular restarts when booting your computer, especially if
some new equipment has been installed recently.
If the hardware elements are incompatible or faulty, the operating system reacts immediately
by restarting, hoping to fix this problem automatically.
If that’s the case, check your hardware.
Power failures can also cause sudden restarts.
They can happen because of the power supply unit no longer able to work properly, so it
should be checked too.
Overheating is one more thing to make your computer restart out of the blue.
It can happen because of a fauty cooler, dust-covered radiators or dried-up thermal paste between
the processor and the radiator.
You can check your cpomputer for overheating with AIDA64, and there’s a tutorial on this
topic in our channel.
There can also be problems because of a faulty system memory module: if you have several
modules installed, check them by removing one of them at a time and see how your computer
works, or try inserting the module into another slot.
A damaged hard disk, motherboard, graphics card or other components can also cause cyclic
restarts.
Another possible cause is malware – if problems started after installation of a certain program,
try checking your computer for viruses.
Watch one of our videos about removing viruses.
Find the link in the description.
In Windows 10, seeing your computer restart sometimes means it’s an automatic restart
for installation of updates.
It can happen both while you’re working with the computer and it restarts to install
an update, and while you’re away from the computer for a while.
So, let’s find out how to disable such restarts, and what your options are.
How to disable automatic restarts in Windows 10
Configure Windows 10 restart policy The first method doesn’t disable restarts
but allows to you decide when they take place.
To do it, go to Settings / Update & Security.
In Windows Update section, you can set up update and restart options.
You can change active hours here by setting the period of time when your computer should
not restart.
Such period cannot be longer than 12 hours.
Restart options - this setting is only active when updates have been downloaded and a restart
is scheduled.
With this option, you can change the scheduled time of automatic restart for installation
of updates.
With Local Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor
The second method allows you to disable Windows automatic restart completely.
You can do it with Local Group Policy Editor.
To use it, open the Run window by pressing Win+R key shortcut and enter gpedit.msc.
Then follow the path: Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components
/ Windows Update, and open the line “No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled
automatic update installations.”
Set the value for Enabled and apply changes; and set the value Disabled for the line “Always
automatically restart at the scheduled time.”
As a result, Windows 10 won’t restart if there are any users who signed in.
If your operating system doesn’t have the Local Group Policy Editor, you can do it with
the Registry Editor To start it, type “regedit” in the Run
window, and follow the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
- if there are no such folders, create them by right-clicking on the necessary key and
select New / Key.
In this key, create a DWORD value and name it as NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers, and then
set its value data as 1.
Changes should take place without rebooting, but it’s better to restart the computer.
Disable restarts with the Task Scheduler One more way to disable Windows 10 restarts
after update installation is by using the Task Scheduler.
To do it, type “control schedtasks” in the Run window.
In the window that opens, go to Task Scheduler Library, Microsoft, Windows, UpdateOrchestrator,
right-click on Reboot and select Disable.
After that, the computer will never restart to install an update.
Instead, updates will only be installed when you restart it manually.
At the moment, these are all methods I have available to disable automatic restart when
Windows 10 updates, but I think they will be enough if the system restarts really annoy
you.
Since Windows 10 was updated to version 1709, such restarts have become more frequent; watch
another video in our channel on how to view your system information.
I will give the link in the description.
If you’re using this version, try disabling the fast startup function; to do it, go to
Settings / System / Power & Sleep / Additional power settings, then open “Choose what the
power buttons do.”
First, click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” to make the boxes
active, and then check off the box next to “Turn on fast startup.”
Save changes and restart the computer.
You can also encounter such problems with computers based on AMD or Xeon processors,
and if you own one, try using this method or updating/rolling back your operating system.
There is a special video guide about system rollback in our channel, and I will give the
link in the description.
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