Windows 10 (updates) affecting work

As a graphic artist and 3D animator I often have to leave my pc on to render sequences overnight.
Windows 10, "in all its wisdom", frequently reboots my machine to install updates against my better wishes.
Last night it rebooted during a particularly important render which was for a client proposal today.
In the end I had to explain and beg for forgiveness for wasting my client's time as I couldn't complete the render in time.

I know there are other posts on this forum addressing issues related to Windows updates but so far nothing is particularly feasible for the average non-tech-savvy individual.
Is there no way to make Microsoft aware of how this system is affecting productivity?

I'm sure other's are sharing my frustration.

With active hours you can only delay updates for some hours so it eventually will update during the day, the option you show in your picture is greyed out so NOT USABLE, i have win 10 pro and it is greyed out too.
For a work that need to run overnight maybe the best option is "Suspend Updates" (translated) it is not clear if this will work, if it will work only for quality updates, not security etc. etc. etc. of course we are talking win 10 pro.

About the quite obvios drill "updates are for your security ... only d...b people do not update ..." i can surely say for me, but for many people
as well: no one here is willing not to update at all but only to have an easy and clear way to control when updates will be done.

I got that screen yesterday and assumed that setting "Schedule a Time" from On to Off meant that it would just notify me at some point in the future to do the restart.

Little did I know that it actually meant it would automatically schedule it for an hour in the future with no way to delay or reschedule.

dalchina said:

Some have found it possible to set updates to Notify only (i.e. you have to approve their download) with Home editions (see e.g. Winaero's free tweaker for a convenient way to to this) - others have struggled to get that to work.

Thanks you for the feedback guys. Dalchina, I will look into your suggestion and see if it works for me.
I just wish Microsoft would see how invasive and disruptive some of these processes are.
They should give the user a bit more control...especially when you use a pc for work.

Bree said:

That option is only available (in Home or Pro) once an update has been downloaded, but before it has had the restart.

Didn't know that, thanks!

dalchina said:

It is quite possible to have control with Pro - just not obvious how to achieve it.

That's the point of my post, it seems overcomplicated for no reason, that's it.