Is there anyway to stop Windows 8 from restarting for an update?

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Published on 2012-10-22T09:15:51Z Indexed on 2012/11/18 17:07 UTC
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My Windows 8 machine is going to restart shortly...

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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:

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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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