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Another unwanted automatic reboot!
Unfortunately, it happened again. Despite the registry hacks and YouTube research (a LOT of hits!), I still got rebooted last night and I had applications running that update disk files. As these w...
If you want total control over when updates download AND install, Windows 11 Pro allows you to set updates to "Notify to download and notify to install":
Using Group Policy:
- Navigate to the same Windows Update policy location
- Find "Configure Automatic Updates"
- Set it to Enabled, then under "Options" select 2 - Notify for download and auto install (or 2 - Notify to download and notify to install depending on version)
This means Windows will ask permission before even downloading updates. You can approve them on your own schedule.