Hello. Surprisingly, the answer to this question (more precisely, “how to do everything so that it was as before”) is poorly lit in runet. And in general, a ready-made solution still needs to be searched.
However, the problem needs to be solved. The system restores after reboot not all applications.
So:
- Go to the policy setting. It will even work on a local machine without a domain.
To start the policy editor, do the following: Start → Run (or Win + R) → gpedit.msc - From the left in the tree select: Computer Configuration (Computer Configuration), Administrative Templates (Administrative Templates), Windows Components (Windows Components), Windows Update (Windows Update).
- Here we are interested in two parameters:
- Do not perform an automatic reboot during the automatic installation of updates, if the system runs users (turn on, turn on). (Enabled). Hurray, there will be no more restarting (if there are active sessions).
- Also pay attention to the Configure Automatic Updates option. If you set it to the Disabled state, the system will secretly stop downloading and installing updates.
If you want the system to never reboot spontaneously (even in the absence of active sessions), then this should be done.
After the restart is disabled, the system will periodically give you a nice window asking you to restart the computer (as it was before):
By the way, this window is even better: it allows you to postpone the reboot "until evening", which means a reminder only once a day, and not every 4 hours, as it was before.
PS: As correctly noted in the comments, the policy editor is available only on versions steeper than Professional. On younger versions, you will need to make changes directly to the registry.
.reg file disable automatic restart.