Advanced Windows update options Windows 10 vis-à-vis Windows 11

@Baeolophus


In both Win 10 and Win 11... you will get a warning before it restarts.

Windows 11 is pretty much the same as Windows 10.
MS just took a wooden spoon and stirred up all the settings on Windows 11.

Baeolophus said:

Will the warning just stay there, until I consent or cancel?

If I cancel, will the system try rebooting again, and if so, how soon thereafter?

On Windows 11 it will warn you 15 mins before restarting. I don't know what happens when you cancel... I've never done that.
Generally, most of us just manually run the updates when MS releases them, including the restart.
@Brink posts all the updates as soon as their available.

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Windows 10 (because MS leaves it alone), is more stable.
On Windows 11, you need to use backup software. MS keeps breaking things, sometimes on purpose.

Because of the backup software, most of us just... go with the flow. MS's flow, that is.

This is what I do on every version of Windows so MS's stoopid stuff doesn't bother me...

1. I keep the used space on the Windows partition... less than 40GB. That way, backups and restores are fast.
2. I install large programs or large games on a storage drive.

My backups take 1.5 minutes, and my restores take 2 minutes.
So I can use backups/restores, as often as I need to.
This way, backup software becomes a very quick boo-boo eraser.

What I am wondering is, whether with that option set to On, the system will force me to reboot in the middle of my workday.

It does seem to say that.

There are tutorials in the Tutorials section in tenforums and elevenforum.com about controlling update-related restarts.

If you have the Pro version (or a version with the group policy editor) you can set updates to 'Notify, so updates are not even downloaded until you say so.

Clearly you want to avoid interruption to normal usage, which would occur by default (which seems totally daft to me!).
Informed users take steps to avoid that, starting with Active Hours.

In my opinion, I would set those two options from (Windows 10 & 11) to Off. There is no rush to have the computer restart once it does an update. If the computer needs to restart after an update, you will get a notification (in Windows 10 at least) in the bottom-right notification area saying that the computer needs to restart to finish updating.

At the end of the day, when you're done with your work, either Restart or Shut Down your computer (not Sleep or Hibernate), and once you turn on the computer, the updates will finish.