How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Rebooting after Installing Windows Updates?

How to  Prevent your Windows OS from Automatically Rebooting after Installing Microsoft Windows Updates?

Here are the steps:

1. Click Start

2.Go to Run & type regedit

3. In regedit, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Polices\Microsoft\Windows

 4. In the left pane, right click on Windows, then click on New Key,and  then type WindowsUpdate

5. In the left pane, right click on WindowsUpdate, and click on New Key,and then type AU 

6. In the right pane of AU, right click anywhere and select New DWORD 32-bit Value, and type in NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers. 

7. Right click NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers & click Modify, then type its value as 1(one) and press enter.

8. Close regedit. 

9. Restart the computer.

Now Windows won't restart once you install updates.

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