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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...
The issue is that Microsoft has changed how these settings work over time. The old "No auto-restart with logged on users" setting was very powerful, but Microsoft has de-emphasized it in favor of "Active Hours" . However, as you discovered, Active Hours has a hard limit (a maximum of 18 hours) and can't protect long-running overnight tasks like renders or compiles.