There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing “working hours”. (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

    • JackbyDev
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      026 days ago

      I’ve heard so many horror stories about values getting reset by updates that I don’t trust it. That is to say, if my boss or coworkers told me this was what was required to keep the critical server from actually restarting then I wouldn’t test it.

      • @Ptsf
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        026 days ago

        That’s. Fucking. Insane. Like, it’s a documented registry fix from Microsoft themselves. If you have a gpo pushing it, it’s not getting reset. Also you literally just disregarded the way 90% of software makes configuration changes to your system, the registry… Please tell me you don’t work in IT because if you do your coworkers and end users must hate their lives.

          • @Ptsf
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            126 days ago

            True, I do apologize. As an industry guy who deals with nonsense like that all day I suppose it struck a nerve but there wasn’t any reason to respond as harshly as I did.