My active hours are not 8-5 windows! If you gave one shit about your users you'd know.

Under windows update settings you can set your own active hours.

But earlier today I actually found advice about how to prevent the automatic reboot.

Turns out there is a reboot task in task scheduler (a little hidden) called reboot that are scheduled when a reboot is required.

According to the advice you could disable this task and windows is supposed to just reschedule but not reenable it. Dont know if it works yet.

BUT the task calls a vbscript file called reboot located in a folder somewhere (will try to find the info again). If you also rename that file and create a directory named reboot that should also prevent windows from performing the reboot in the event it does reenable the task.

Wont know until next time if it works though. :/

That's hack with these renaming. But in this case is improvment i guess:)

@damikon8 Yes. Coming to work just to find out that the over night job you started on your computer died 22:00 because windows rebooted after an update is no fun. Put my schedule back a day since I cannot run it daytime (to much load on the server and since its a onetime job I wont be building a service to run on one of our service runner nodes.

@Voxera
I totaly understand you. I have the same feelings about this updates:(