Remove or Disable Restart Popup after Automatic Update

Automatic Updates is an updates from Microsoft server to be downloaded and installed automatically. When the download and installation process is done, it will ask whether we want to restart now or later. The problem arises when we choose to restart later. A Windows Update popup will come out anytime afterwards and it reads “Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for updates to take effect. Windows will restart your computer automatically in 5:00 minutes. If you want to restart just click “restart”, but if you dont want to see this popup, there is 2 ways to remove the popup.

1. Stop the Automatic Updates Service

1. Go to Control Panel >> Administrative Tools and double click on Services
2. Find “Automatic Updates” from the list of services, right-click on it and click stop

btw, another way to stop Automatic Updates like this by using command prompt.

sc stop wuauserv

2. Modifying Group Policies
The 2nd way to stop the popup and better solution is modify some group policy settings so that your computer will always be updated but at the same time you will not asked to restart anymore.

Run gpedit.msc .

Proceed to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update

click on the right hand side you will see a bunch of options related to Windows Automatic Update. Here is where we can can manipulate to get what we want.

No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations – It will disable automatic restart and disable the dialog box asking you to restart now or later

Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations – It lets you edit the interval of the appearance of the dialog box in minutes.