Is there anyway to stop Windows 8 from restarting for an update?
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Published on 2012-10-22T09:15:51Z
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My Windows 8 machine is going to restart shortly...
I have tried a few techniques such as shutdown /a
which is not having much luck.
Short of pausing the Windows Update service, is there anyway to stop this restart from happening?
---update---
Looks like the "restart" is all talk and no action! The time has gone and I am presented with this:
So, it goes along with the top answer here (which I shall shortly accept)
--- update again---
It did reset!!! My battery went critical and it turned itself off, I turned it back on (out of suspend) when it was plugged in, I logged in and the first thing it did was automatically restart - closing my open tabs in Chrome :(
Oh well...
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