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It was my understanding that with the Creators Update 1703, Windows 10 would no longer be auto restarting on its own. Currently running 1803 and am still experiencing forced restarts. Are these editions unrelated? Should I still be having this problem? Forced updates are still occurring despite changing the Scheduling Task name and disabling the service. I don't care why, but to imagine someone would design a system that pseudo-randomly restarts itself is beyond me.

UPDATE

I'm thinking a possible culprit is a service named 'Windows Update Medic Service', but can't find a way to disable it on any forums and admin rights are not sufficient. Links point to a utility called Windows Update Blocker but I'd prefer to do this manually.

UPDATE 2

Does nobody have a suggestion regarding this? Even a confirmation that this can't be solved would be validating. It's restarted three times this month on its own and destroyed everything I had in RAM. Unfortunately I only have this copy of windows that came with the computer, I really don't want to go and buy a new copy in hopes it will be a different 'version' of this pos. It keeps taunting me with its smirk message 'Heads up we're going to make windows better soon...' right before it does whatever it wants.

UPDATE 3:

Had it automatically restart 3 friggin' times this week. Once after Patch Tuesday, and then another 2 times without any notice or warning. Cannot leave the computer running safely overnight... great job Microsoft. Plus it automatically re-starts services that were running when it shutdown which causes more problems. Worse yet, under Services, Windows Update and Windows Update Medic Service is listed as 'Stopped' and 'Manual' startup... this is after all the restarts.

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Execute in PowerShell.

This doesn't disable the need for the restart but rather tries to ensure that the restart doesn't happen in the least expected moment. Allow the machine to restart as soon as possible anyway.

Disable Windows Update automatic restart.

If (-Not(Test-Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU")) {
    New-Item -Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" -Force | Out-Null;
}
Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" -Name "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" -Type DWord -Value 1;
Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" -Name "AUPowerManagement" -Type DWord -Value 0;

Enable Windows Update automatic restart.

Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" -Name "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" -Name "AUPowerManagement" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;

Source and description.

Manage device restarts after updates (for details).

Victor S.
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