Tutorials - Hacks and Tricks

Disable Auto Restart in Windows 7

It is very annoying when you leave your computer on to do an automated task and you wake up and see that it's been restarted automatically for whatever reason (usually Windows Update). So in this tutorial I'll show you how to disable that in Windows 7.

Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate and Enterprise:
-  In the Start Menu go to Run type "gpedit.msc" and press Enter
-  Now a Group Policy editor will open. In this window navigate to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
-  Double click on No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations
-  In the settings window Choose Enabled and click OK
-  Close Group Policy Editor

Windows 7 Basic and Home Premium:
- Go to registry editor and navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Policies \Microsoft\Windows \WindowsUpdate\AU

- Change the "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" DWord value to the required number.
- 0 = False (Allow auto-reboot)
- 1 = True (Disallow auto-reboot)