How to prevent windows update from forcibly rebooting your pc

Most of us face this problem and it is really annoying to see the Windows update restart dialogue box sometimes.In this tutorial i will tell you how to temporarily disable this.Follow these steps:

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.

5.Goto"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU"

6.Create anew 32-bit DWORD value named "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" and give it a value 1.

Now you are done if you want to put things back to the way they were simply delete the 32-bit DWORD.

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