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Stop Windows 7 Updates From Auto-Restarting

It is a normal day for full time student Jill who has been working on her anthropology paper. Jill began the day by taking her kids to school, and telling them to behave in class. The drive home is fairly short and soon she is sitting beside her computer pondering about What Makes You Human for her class. It is not long after she begins typing into the familiar screen when a small icon in the corner notifies her the computer is updating. She hardly notices and continues her work. Abruptly without warning the computer freezes and enters into the restart cycle, interrupting her schoolwork stating, Computer is configuring updates. This problem doesn't affect just Jill but many others who are continually interrupted by this feature. Luckily there is an easy solution to this problem. Windows 7 is setup to install updates automatically and then restart the computer. There is two ways to prevent this from happening. The first way will work with only windows Professional and Ultimate, and ...