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So you want to get your windows box to stop rebooting overnight and wrecking your long running jobs? Here's the registry setting to do that. Caveat: I'm not responsible if you destroy your registry. Procede with all due caution.

You'll need to edit your registry. shudder.

Run 'regedit' (as Administrator), and add the following key in your registry:

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

If you don't see the "WindowsUpdate" key under Windows, you should create it by right-clicking on "Windows" and make a New -> Key with that name. Repeat for "AU".

Now click on AU on the left side, and in the right side, right-click to make a New > DWORD (32bit) Value. Replace DWORD with:

NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers

Now double click on that and set the Value Data to 1.

Then reboot. From now on, you are responsible for rebooting Windows after an update.

 

 

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