Hi, like you, I'm a victim of MS design decisions, if you wish to look at it that way. Agreed, their policy on restart is crazy, complicated by the difference in Win 10 home and Pro, and continual periodic tweaks and changes to the way these things are controlled, without prior explanation except by web articles people might happen to write.
I have the advantage of having learnt to think defensively over many years, and having used disk imaging through several generations of Windows. In all that time I've experienced unbootable PCs, loss of partition structure, disk failure.
But I've never lost any significant data.
PCs are not yet- and may not be in my lifetime- a pure consumer item. That's because, in part, MS has not yet completely separated the OS from user settings and data- and I doubt they ever will.
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Restart and updates.
1. '10 Pro lets you schedule restarts.
2. Active hours (anniversary edition) allows you to set up to a 12 hour period in which Windows will not restart
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html
3. I have noted, however, that even if an update requires a restart, and notifies me of this during this period, a restart does not occur at the end of it. This surprised me.
4. Running 'Don't Sleep' - a free utility- allows me to block restarts (and sleep/hibernate...) or schedule them.
(It clearly shouldn't be necessary to have to resort to such things).
Helpful people publish things like this:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html