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This is beyond maddening. I have been using Windows since the early 90s. I've never seen something so horribly designed.

I recently abandoned my beloved Win7, because security. I can mostly live with Win10's shortcomings. Except for this one. Today at 5pm I walked away from my machine for 30 minutes. Come back at 5:30pm to this popup telling me I have 4 minutes to prevent a reboot that I never asked for. And yes, I took this photo with a camera, since the popup commandeered all other input on my machine.

What if I was running a super important task that took 72 hours to complete and it was 99% finished? Is MS really ok with just forcefully rebooting client machines on a moment's notice? This is almost enough to make me stop using Windows entirely (I already have Linux and OSX machines, I only use Windows for gaming mostly).

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Go to Windows 10 Settings, Updates and set Hours of Operation to hours that suit you (mine are set from 7:00am to 9:00pm). Windows will restart outside of the regular hours. There is no need to be frustrated because you can manage it. I will normally check towards the end of the hours (9:00pm) and look for updates and restart at my discretion.

My clients computers are left on and restart overnight when I am not there.

Key - Manage your updates. Do not just let them happen.

There is also a Pause Function in Updates that you can use if you are using the computer after regular hours and still need to Pause for an hour or two or to a specific time. I have used this function when waiting for virtual machines to complete updating so I can shut them down before the host system restarts.