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it's a nightmare all too familiar for Windows users you're in the middle of a project and without warning it strikes the dreaded automatic updates windows suddenly restart your computer and you can't stop it if you didn't save your work it's toast the unstoppable update is one of the biggest complaints about Windows and you can always find people griping about it on Twitter but Microsoft hails the forceful restart as a good feature that keeps your computer secure there are some things you can do to prevent the unwanted surprise in settings you can schedule a 12-hour window of time when the computer will not automatically restart this off limits time is called active hours go to settings click update in security and select change active hours by default it said to not restart on you between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. but you can stretch this out to a 12 hour time frame you won't be able to avoid a restart indefinitely and you need to have your computer on outside of active hours windows will pop up a notification that it's going to restart on you later in the day when active hours is over if you catch that pop-up you can go into restart options and push it back by 6 days at a certain time the only guaranteed way of not being surprised is to just check for updates regularly and restart it yourself but if you use active hours maybe you can prevent a restart during your typical busy time for CNN I'm Bridget Carey wishing all Windows users the best of luck and remember save your work