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Carolyn

I had hoped the “Creator’s update” addition of the new “Well show a reminder when we’re going to restart…” would give notice of a pending restart, allowing me to take care of it myself. NOT SO!! Left my computer unattended for about an hour and upon return realized windows update had restarted it. MADDENING!

Result: I realized I STILL need to leave my computer open to potential abuse by setting up FULL AUTOMATIC LOGINS AFTER A RESTART. (required to minimize any damage done due to interrupting irregularly scheduled tasks running 24/7).

Home version, settings: “local computer”, disabled Edge and web-based Cortana. Question: To enable this small “improvement” in update control which DID NOT WORK, does MS require me to undo all of my privacy settings?

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Your privacy settings have nothing to do with your Windows Update settings. They are not connected.

Carolyn

Thanks for your response. I agree that privacy settings SHOULD have nothing to do with updates. My issue: 1: I receive NO WARNINGS/NOTICE of an impending update and 2: the “schedule a time” restart options is GREYED OUT. Thus I have no means to pick a time or day for a restart. Anyone know how to fix it?????

Aunnie

I have this problem. Under Restart > Schedule a Time, I can’t get the OFF tab to come on. I have clicked it, tried to slide it everything and I can’t get it to come on where I can schedule the time for updates. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

I think I am having the same problem as the last person who posted about the “greyed out” area.

paula

the restart time and date that i set for the updates to finish doesn’t stay on. it keeps turning itself off. But it’s not grayed out. I have had that problem in the past. what can i do to make the time and date stay on, the ones i have selected. Windows 10 is garbage.

alex

It is bullshit. Microsoft disabled all this options on my computer.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Are you on a corporate network? Because if you are, then your company might have disabled this option, not Microsoft.

Renate

We need control over when updates get downloaded, not just when the system restarts. Sometimes the downloading causes system slowdowns.

Julie

YES!!! This is driving me batty.

Kay

I’d like to see what is being updated and have control over it. The fact that you can’t even view the updates is just really annoying.

Alison  Day

When an update is coming and I am shutting down my Surface, I get told not to turn it off. I dutifully leave it on. I am then intensely irritated the following morning when it still has to work on updates – frequently taking many minutes. Why cannot it complete installing the updates overnight when I have left the machine on?

Debbie

My solution to the immense irritation of downloads and updates not being able to be scheduled is to buy a MAC next go round. I now loathe MS products.

Michael Lindberg

This just .. does .. not .. work for me. My job randomly requires access to the computer at all hours. What I need is the ability to say, “restart my computer at 3:30am”. I can’t even give this application a window of 2 hours in the early am to do the restart. Not acceptable.

Sandra Khalife

Regardless of the active hours and scheduling of an update for the weekend my computer starts the update when I go to sign off. If I bypass this option and turn off laptop using power button the update starts when I turn it back on!!! Extremely annoying and frustrating.

Ray Henshaw

I do not want updates when I have to reboot it takes too long. DO NOT give me updates when I reboot

Ronnie

More flexibility is needed. We work 8am to 4pm, but we backup to a SLOW cloud Backup (slow DSL internet) at 2am to 4am). I don’t want updates screwing up my PC because it tries to update during my backup time, which could potentially happen. Please add multiple times to disable updates.

Daniel T.

I would like my updates to only occur on a specific day, like Friday after close of business. This used to be an option in previous versions of Windows.

Throughout the week I leave my computer on with multiple applications open so I don’t have to reopen everything everyday. We have generators so leaving the PC on is fine, but I know a restart is still important for updates and performance. I just want that to happen when I’m ready to shutdown the PC.

I guess I need to set my active time to when I am NOT on the PC so I can deal with that prompt to reset while I’m active to keep it from resetting my PC when Windows wants.

Cem Karacaoğlu

Preventing restart during active hours and pausing until confirmation is not enough. The user must be given the option to set a time frame within the day, when updates are to be downloaded, for applying those updates, or if necessary, restarts by confirmation.

Obligating users for updates is by itself annoying already. What is it to MS that I update my system or not? Do they want to prove that they can better manage my computer? Of course NOT! What they are trying to do, is to hide the inadequacy and errors of their OS as long as possible. Market an immature OS, and try to make it better by updates. And they think we are dumbs that are unable to sort this out.

“active hours” concept does not allow you to define a time frame for checking updates, also for downloading them afterwards. One might be running something critical on the web and the connection might be inadequately slow. Why not just ask the user before checking or beginning to download updates? This is officially bullying.

When I buy a Mercedes car, do they push a new air filter or break pedal into my car every month? Then what is Windows 10, a product? Or a preliminary product? Or just a voluntary test run? If so, why have they charged billions of dollars from us?

Another example of how MS ruins programmers’ works and tries to build a monopoly, probably supported by their government.

What a “Pro” OS, isn’t it?

Windows Bob

Would much like to be able to pick a day to install updates and restart like Sunday at 8:00pm