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Uh, a Windows-loving thread on a hacker forum!

Let me try to make myself useful, and add an important addition that's missing from the original thread:

stop Windows 10 from restarting automatically

https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...

In particular, step 2... my Windows Surface Go hasn't auto-restarted in months... and this is plain vanilla Windows 10 Home version 2004 (not a fancy Professional or Ultimate).

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You probably should restart every month or so, otherwise you're not getting the monthly security patches.

Obviously. The beautiful part of this approach is that it doesn’t disable the icon in the taskbar that alerts you of updates... but it won’t restart automatically.

My god, I wish MacOS would restart automatically! The amount of times I've gotten a nastygram from IT about an update I just expected would be installed (or at least notified!) automatically...

In my experience MacOS is much better at restarting - programs just continue where you left off. I'd still hate it because programming language environments still lose state... but in any case, Windows is much worse at this.

Windows does the same thing if your app supports.

Sorry, but it's bonkers that you need to follow 6 complex steps (or use a 3rd party software to do it), in order to stop your OS from doing something it shouldn't be doing in the first place. A computer should never decide on its own to turn itself off.

I'm not going to let Mac off the hook either. You have to deliberately choose to not have it "automatically update" itself, and it keeps begging you to turn that function on.

Thanks for sharing this. I've been going crazy with the Windows 10 machine starting up by itself at random times. I searched online, and I think I did disable the wake timers, but I certainly didn't do it on all the power management profiles. I'll have to check this one out again.

If there's one thing I've seen with Windows, it's consistent in how annoying it can be in every release.

Thanks, random internet stranger. This literally bit me this morning.

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