There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing “working hours”. (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This works for windows servers and it’s fucking stupid

    Open notepad. Make a change in the notepad window and don’t save the change.

    For some dumbass reason, likely burried deep on legacy code, the notepad save prompt halts the shutdown process.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Does this prevent other running programs from getting the WM_CLOSE signal (or whatever the signal sent when the computer tries to shut down is)?

      Also, Windows 11 Notepad seems to have no problem closing with unsaved text. I think it saves it to a temporary location.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I love this. Amazing. Imagine a mission critical server with an edited txt file just saying “DO NOT SAVE AND/OR EXIT!”

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’ve heard so many horror stories about values getting reset by updates that I don’t trust it. That is to say, if my boss or coworkers told me this was what was required to keep the critical server from actually restarting then I wouldn’t test it.

          • Ptsf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            That’s. Fucking. Insane. Like, it’s a documented registry fix from Microsoft themselves. If you have a gpo pushing it, it’s not getting reset. Also you literally just disregarded the way 90% of software makes configuration changes to your system, the registry… Please tell me you don’t work in IT because if you do your coworkers and end users must hate their lives.

              • Ptsf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                True, I do apologize. As an industry guy who deals with nonsense like that all day I suppose it struck a nerve but there wasn’t any reason to respond as harshly as I did.

    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It doesn’t work anymore (at least on win 10) as there was a new notepad released that keeps unsaved content just like notepad++ does

      I know for sure as I had notepad opened unsaved the other night and woke up to a rebooted computer with notepad opened and the content restored when I logged in