How to Prevent automatic restart in Windows 10 Anniversary Update?

The only problem is that it consistently doesn't work, no matter how I do it, across four different machines, so I can be pretty sure it's not a machine issue. But thanks; I just wanted to ask someone else to see if they were having the same problem.

Is it Enterprise or PRO? Does it have local or MS account?

woffko said:

Is it Enterprise or PRO? Does it have local or MS account?

All of them are Home, and using the same MS account.

Know what? I just started my virtual machine with windows 10 MS and logged with MS account and it have the same behavior as yours.
Switch to local account and everything will work.
I think it's MS bug, nothing to say.

Edit: After switching it back to MS account, it still working, just for fun.

TairikuOkami said:

I have never seen this task to re-enable itself, but then again, I do not use Windows Update and I disable all tasks.

sc config wuauserv start= demand
schtasks /DELETE /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Schedule Scan" /f
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot" /Disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Refresh Settings" /Disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\USO_UxBroker_Display" /Disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\USO_UxBroker_ReadyToReboot" /Disable
schtasks /DELETE /TN "Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\Scheduled Start" /f
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\sih" /Disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\sihboot" /Disable

thanks for this, after a big update it re enables itself, although I try to disable the updates several times, when I reboot manually the updates start to install. This is way easyer than doing it with the task scheduler.

Brink said:

Hello tannim, :)

What is broken about active hours for you?

Active hours lets Windows know when you usually use this device. When a restart is necessary to finish installing an update, Windows won't automatically restart your device during active hours.

Change Active Hours for Windows Update in Windows 10 | Tutorials

Well, for one, it doesn't let you set the active hours to 24 hours a day to prevent Windows from rebooting when it feels like.

mmortal03 said:

I also found the following, you can disable the "Reboot" scheduled task in the Task Scheduler Library->Microsoft->Windows->UpdateOrchestrator scheduled tasks folder, see here for a complete explanation: How Easily Disable The Automatic Forced Reboot after Windows 10 has done an Update Four easy... - justpaste.it

Got an update to this procedure from 8 years ago? It seems the interface has changed (surprise!). UpdateOrchestrator is now under "Actions" and has nothing named "Reboot" under it.

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dalchina said:

There's a much much easier way to deal with this, which I posted a couple of weeks ago.
Simply download and run 'Don't Sleep' (freeware, small) - or similar.

This optionally blocks sleep, hibernation, restart, shutdown.

So if you want your PC on for 24 hrs (active hours is limited to 12 max)- run this. No messing about with the registry or services.

I had a restart pending.. and with this running, it was still pending after the expiry of my active hours period.

This looks good. But the web page says it also prevents your system from taking any power saving measures.

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Brink said:

Glad I could give you a little laugh.... Um, can you explain the joke? Is it that many have tried to prevent Win10 from rebooting, but none have succeeded?