{"id":24218,"date":"2022-09-13T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=24218"},"modified":"2022-09-13T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:56:04","slug":"how-to-schedule-windows-update-restarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-schedule-windows-update-restarts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Schedule Windows Update Restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to Schedule Windows Update Restarts\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This tutorial was created for Windows 11, but if you&#8217;re using Windows 10 you can schedule the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We all know how important keeping our Windows computers updated is.\u00a0 But few things are more disruptive than when Windows Update restarts your computer to finish installing an update\u00a0\u00a0But you can take control of when your computer will restart to finish installing an update. Here&#8217;s how.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When a Windows update is pending, you&#8217;ll see the &#8220;Update restart pending&#8221; icon in the notification area of your taskbar (the area closest to the clock).\u00a0 You can see what the icon looks like in the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/restart-later0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 11 Tips\" width=\"385\" height=\"72\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click on that icon to open the Windows Update Restart dialog. When it opens, click the down arrow next to &#8220;Restart now&#8221;, then click on &#8220;Schedule restart&#8221; from the 2-item drop-=down menu that appears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/restart-later01.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 11 Tips\" width=\"600\" height=\"741\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When you click on &#8220;Schedule restart&#8221;, you&#8217;ll see a list of days you can choose when Windows will automatically restart your computer to finish a Windows Update or Updates pending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/restart-later1a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 11 Tips\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Select the day\/date you want Windows to restart your computer and click &#8220;Schedule restart&#8221;. Then you&#8217;ll be able to choose a time when you want Windows to restart your computer to finish installing the update or updates<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Select the time you want your computer to restart &#8211; then click the checkmark near the bottom of the dialog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/restart-later3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 11 Tips\" width=\"600\" height=\"744\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Once you have done that, Windows will restart your computer to finish updating your computer on the day and time of your choosing. No more surprise restarts!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/restart-later4.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 11 Tips\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Schedule Windows Update Restarts\u00a0 This tutorial was created for Windows 11, but if you&#8217;re using Windows 10 you can schedule the same way. We all know how important keeping our Windows computers updated is.\u00a0 But few things are more disruptive than when Windows Update restarts your computer to finish installing an update\u00a0\u00a0But you can\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-schedule-windows-update-restarts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24220,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218\/revisions\/24220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}