What's the current group policy method to prevent this on w11? Is there one? Did it change with 23h2? I think I applied one on this pc at some point but it's been such a long time that I don't remember what I did and clearly it stopped working.
Preferably from a source that isn't sucking microsoft's peepee and telling me I'm using my computer wrong by failing to save unsaveable browser session data.
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I leave a stream open to stop it from doing this. Someone who streams 24/7. If they go offline, I'm fricked but usually it's fine. You'll still get the annoying reminders but it won't reboot overnight.
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!codecels windoze users are so cucked they have to watch streamers to control their reboots.
Hope u remembered to drink ur verification can
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I'll take my lumps for this one for sure. I didn't want to upgrade because of this reason. I like Windows as an OS but this is indeed shitty.
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if it makes you feel better I had to disable tooltips in photoshop because for some reason on linux tooltips break plugins
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Photoshop works in Linux now?
Now I just need solidworks, lightroom and cura then I can get rid of windows.
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Sorta. 2021 and 2022 "work" but have issues like no gpu support. I've seen people tun SW on linux too, but no idea how stable that is
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Oh. Yea I need GPU support especially for lightroom, and solidworks rendering.
Maybe 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop
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Interesting workaround. I wonder if running something on a loop in VLC would accomplish the same thing without the network and processing overhead.
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Good question. Not sure. Steam used to keep it from rebooting too but I don't open it much on my work machine. Also, I can't remember if it consistently worked. An open stream will stop it from rebooting though for sure. I'm sure some other process running locally would stop it. Maybe having the mouse move might stop it. It won't reboot if it thinks you're active.
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I guess the question is whether the wakelock is triggered by the presence of a video or by the network activity, or by the combination of the two.
This obviously shouldn't be necessary at all.
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wtf why ya'll going the long way round for this stupid issue? It never happens to me, left my PC on for a month almost once.
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If you don't reboot your windows 10/11 PC every two or three days it will eventually reboot itself at an inconvenient time. If you're talking about a work machine your employer might have disabled it, but it isn't (easily) possible to disable on personal computers.
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It reboots for me. Is there a setting for it? I find it annoying af. You can snooze it but you have to be at your PC to snooze it. I get the reminders at all kinds of hours too.
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There is no setting. Windows users have been complaining about this since 2018 when they removed the ability to disable the automatic reboots. They could've buried such a setting deep in the legacy control panel or something if they were just worried about normies never updating, but this is actually about the SaaSification of windows and owning nothing and being happy.
It's the same reason for the removal of s3 sleep support and mandatory s0 sleep support, microsoft wants your PC to be an always-on always-updating appliance like a smartphone. If you've ever taken your laptop out of your bag to find it out of battery and 300 degrees, it's because sleep mode no longer exists and modern "sleep" mode allows it to be woken up randomly even while closed.
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There maybe a setting in your BIOS to disable sleep altogether so you'll be left with hibernate which is much slower but still gets the job done if you want to save work.
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I already do that at the OS level; it's annoyingly slow but it's the only way to keep my laptop from lighting itself on fire.
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Someone just said there is a group policy. I know I've looked too but it was about 4 years ago and thought there was none too.
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Yeah if you're willing to frick around with the management tools or edit the registry it's (maybe) possible but that's not the same thing as having a settings toggle. I've also read that the group policy method is different between 10 and 11.
I still want the updates, but I need it to get my permission to reboot. Most of the methods involve disabling the update service completely.
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Just leave a Ken Burns documentary open all day.
Reject modernity: embrace slow pans over photos of The Second Battle of Bull Run.
Oh, wait, you're a foid. Nvm. Girls can't do Civil War
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I've been to Lee's home, chud. You read. I've actually been there.
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What, Arlington National Cemetery?
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No, I've been all over the east coast and my family made it a thing to go to a Civil War national park or monument every summer. I've been to Arlington too though.
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If you're on windows 10 pro there's a group policy setting to disable automatic updates and restarts. It's the first thing I change whenever I get a new laptop.
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ooooh I need to look up this policy. Thank you!
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So check your notifications every once in a while and you can delay that restart a week at a time, but I think you can keep stacking them over and over.
Also you can pause updates in general 5 weeks at a time.
It's not too hard to keep track of, the second Tuesday of every month is when updates come out except a few (2?) times a year are bigger feature updates that I think happen on the first Tuesday of that month.
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I think this was ultimately the problem, that "notify me" toggle was off. I am aware of patch tuesday
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Update your computer the two months you have before hand maybe?
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I reboot at least once a week; it never prompted me to update.
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Genuinely odd then.
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Should be able to look in history and re-open the whole session with all tabs bro
Unless it was a mildly important private browser goon session I guess
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It was a mildly important non-gooning private browser session that I didn't to give access to my other nonprivate session. I should've just closed my existing session and done it in a fresh window but even then it was a form-style page that probably wouldn't have survived the reboot.
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Ah, that sucks
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I have a real PC so I shut it down nightly to avoid spending an extra 100/mo on electricity.
Browser sessions always pop right back up even tho I let windows handle closing them
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??? Just turn off automatic updates???
Pretty sure there's also a registry edit u can do that disables the popups complaining about how you turned off automatic updates.
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That hasn't worked since like windows 8. Automatic updates are now mandatory and you WILL reboot when we want you to.
There have been ways to force-disable them via pro/enterprise administration/configuration tools but every few updates microsoft breaks the current method of doing that and you have to hunt down the new one.
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Oh yeah I'm using win10 pro and have had the auto updates disabled for a while now. Forgot that might not be available on home
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Yeah if you have 10 pro you can disable via group policy but I'm not entirely sure that still works on 11. It was possible at one point but they've changed the relevant policies at least once.
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down to 10
11 is beta
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