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My settings do not get reset when windows update decides to reboot the machine. I also have it set to ask me about installing updates.
Windows Update - Enable or Disable Automatic Restart
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New #11
It normally doesn't do it for me either, just 3 times this year out of ~40 updates. And I have no proof that its actually the updates doing it. I can't even come up with a wild guess what could be doing it.
Have you done all individual updates published by microsoft this year or did you install SP1 ?
I'm still sifting through logs and event viewer, trying to find something...
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(I did find this entry in the windows update logs: "005-06-01 18:30:03 992 7a0 Agent
*********** Agent: Initializing global settings cache ***********"
Initializing does often mean 'resetting' but who knows... gotta do some RL stuff before I keep messing with this)Last edited by Brink; 03 Jul 2011 at 22:15. Reason: merged
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New #12
Brink,
PC has been restarting unexpectedly so I have followed thus tutorial. In fact the last few restarts turned out to be due to (after midnight) error which I discovered via your tutorial on eventvwr.msc.
Anyway I run backups at night so I'd rather choose when the PC restarts so I did this tutorial.
I ran the .reg script then doubled checked in gpedit.mrc which seemed a bit more informative to use.
Question: why would it be that after I had disabled via the .reg approach gpedit still showed Auto Shut Down enabled?
Nick
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Oops.
I'll redo the thing with a restart of my own and see what happens.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have a rather unusual Windows Update requirement.
- Wake up PCs at 03:55 on Second Wednesday of the month, and force Windows 7 to perform any outstanding updates, and reboot if required (PCs are set to perform automatic update at 04:00 on Wednesdays)
- If anything goes wrong, do not (later in the day) reboot with logged-on users
It looks to me that I need a selection from your two .REG files:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
"AlwaysAutoRebootAtScheduledTime"=dword:00000001
Does that sound right to you? Thanks!
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Hello John,
It's no problem. That's what the tutorial is for to ask questions about at anytime. :)
What you propose should disable auto restart when a user is logged in, and allow auto restart on schedule when no user is logged in.
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How to do this on Windows 10? Is there any reg file for that?
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New #19
Hello JuKa1, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Here you go. :)
Windows Update Automatic Updates - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
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