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You used to be able to stop windows from restarting on its own. There was a big windows update a few days ago which appears to have disabled this option. Now my computer is restarting on its own to finish installing automatic updates. How can I stop this?

edit: the instructions in the "duplicate" threads do not work.

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  • Schedule the restart time in a period of time where it will be acceptable for your system to reboot. If that isn't acceptable use WSUS – Ramhound Sep 25 '16 at 15:48
  • Possible duplicate of [Stopping all automatic updates windows 10](http://superuser.com/questions/946957/stopping-all-automatic-updates-windows-10) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Sep 25 '16 at 15:59
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    Better duplicate: [How to prevent Windows 10 from restarting the computer after installing updates](http://superuser.com/questions/1110265/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-restarting-the-computer-after-installing-updates) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Sep 25 '16 at 16:00
  • The instructions in those threads do not work. "Windows cannot find gpedit.msc" – Atte Juvonen Sep 25 '16 at 16:21
  • Looks like WSUS is for not applicable for Windows 10? – Atte Juvonen Sep 25 '16 at 16:23

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According to this article, if Windows thinks your internet connection is metered, it will not download updates automatically - it will instead prompt you to download them (hence giving you the freedom to choose when you want your computer to reboot).

I modified registry to make Windows think my internet connection is metered.

Warning: You can break stuff by modifying registry. I can't guarantee this works. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it.

  • Step 1: Create a backup in case you break something.
  • Step 2: Open regedit (press the windows button, type "regedit", click the icon)
  • Step 3: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\DefaultMediaCost
  • Step 4: Give yourself permissions to change the registry values in that folder. Right click on DefaultMediaCost, click Permissions, click Advanced and at the top click Change (owner). Add your username as the owner. Check that you have Full Control in the Permission entries list now.
  • Step 5: Look at the different internet connection types listed in the folder (3G, 4G, Ethernet, WiFi and Default). Value 2 indicates metered connection, value 1 indicates unmetered. Change everything to value 2.
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