Windows x automatically downloads and installs updates, but a new characteristic in Windows x'south Anniversary Update gives you more than control over when this happens. Set "active hours" when y'all generally utilize your PC, and Windows won't restart your estimator during those hours.

Starting with the Creators Update, Microsoft at present allows you to define upwards to 18 hours of each twenty-four hour period equally "off limits" and prevent automated restarts during those hours. Windows still won't restart your computer while you're actively using it, even outside of active hours.

Update: In Windows x'south May 2019 Update, y'all can at present have Windows 10 automatically select appropriate Active Hours based on how you use your device. To select this option, head to Settings > Update & Security > Change Agile Hours and enable "Automatically arrange active hours for this device based on activity."

How to Forbid Automatic Restarts During Sure Hours

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You'll find this setting in Windows ten's Settings application. To launch information technology, open up the Start card so click or tap "Settings."

Caput to Update & Security > Windows Update. Click or tap "Modify Active Hours" under Update Settings.

Choose a "Start time" and "End time" here. You should set up the hours during which y'all by and large employ your computer.

For example, with the new eighteen hour range, y'all can set up your "active hours" from six AM to 12 AM, or midnight. Windows won't automatically install updates during these hours. Windows will but automatically install updates and restart during the hours of midnight to 6 AM.

Note that your active hours must be between one and 18 hours. Yous tin can't go above 18 hours. You besides can't set different active hours on different days, so yous can't specify unlike active hours for weekdays and weekends.

How to Override Your Agile Hours

Y'all can temporarily override active hours past heading to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Restart Options. From hither, you can ready a custom restart time when your device will restart to install updates. This is a i time setting, and y'all can just fix a custom restart time if your device needs to restart to install updates.

If Windows needs to restart, you'll as well see a "Restart At present" button on the Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update screen. Use the button to restart immediately and go that restart out of the way so it doesn't surprise y'all later.