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By Abhishek Ghosh February 19, 2011 10:05 am Updated on October 17, 2014

How to prevent Windows 7 from automatic restart after installing updates

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After installing the updates, Windows 7 gives alert to have a restart to take the effect. You may want to disable this automatic restart after installing updates. Here is how you can prevent restarts and have them happen only when you want to restart rather than having to continually click “postpone“.

Click  Start, type “regedit” in the search field (without the quotation marks) and hit Enter from keyboard:

How to prevent Windows 7 from automatic restart after installing updates

Windows Registry editor will open. o to the key, create new key (s) of the same name if it or they do not exist :

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Create a new DWORD value called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers by right click on the right sided pane, hover over New ; then click 32 bit DWORD Value :

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Give the new DWORD the value 1 to prevent automatic reboots while users are logged in :

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Save the change to registry and restart your Windows 7 PC. If you want to change to default again (i.e. you want that prompt to restart after installing updates), just delete the value and restart.

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  1. AvatarCorrine says

    February 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    Just remember to restart the computer manually after completing your tasks so that the update can be applied. The reason for the restart is explained in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887012

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "How to prevent Windows 7 from automatic restart after installing updates," in The Customize Windows, February 19, 2011, May 22, 2022, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/02/how-to-prevent-windows-7-from-automatic-restart-after-installing-updates/.

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