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Controlling when Windows 10 will reboot after a Windows Update

License: MIT License

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win10activehours's Introduction

If this helps you, don't forget to leave a Github Star and upvote at StackOverflow https://superuser.com/a/1456571/351521

Win10ActiveHours

You can control the time which you allow Windows to automatically reboot per Windows Update operations without disabling anything or forcefully stopping the Windows Update service.

This script will not prevent any Windows Updates from being downloaded or installed ever so OS security patches will still be applied to the system ― you just have it reboot when you're ready.

Contributing

Pull requests and Issues are welcome!

If this project is useful to you, don't forget to leave a Github Star

You can also Buy me a coffee ☕

How to use

Download the setup.ps1 script
Open PowerShell as Admin
Navigate to the downloaded script directory
Run Unblock-File .\setup.ps1
Run Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process
Commands:
- .\setup.ps1: install the scheduled task
- .\setup.ps1 -run: manually executes the scheduled task
- .\setup.ps1 -uninstall: uninstall the scheduled task

How to verify the current `Active Hours`

Press Win or click on the Start Menu
Type Active Hours and click Change active hours

The current settings are displayed below Change active hours

How it works

This scripts is based in this answer from StackOverflow: https://superuser.com/a/1208866/351521

This script creates a scheduled task that dynamically sets the Active hours settings for Start time and End time based on the run time it's executed while ensuring to increment the values to always be hours ahead.

The task will be created at \Win10ActiveHours\Update

There are two Active Hours windows of 18 hours:

from 18:00 to 12:00
from 06:00 to 00:00

There are four triggers that will active the tasks and switch between the two windows:

at computer start up
at computer wake up
daily at 06:00
daily at 18:00

These are the settings for the task:

wake to run
start when available
don't stop on idle end
allow start if on batteries
don't stop if going on batteries

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win10activehours's Issues

Stopped working on Windows 10 Pro 20H2

I'm really not sure why it's not working any more. I don't see anything in Event Viewer that tells me why Windows is ignoring my active hours or to indicate that the active hours are not set correctly by this script.

For what it's worth, (for anybody who finds this with the same problem) I ended up finding another solution to Microsoft's stupid update features using the group policy editor: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-change-windows-update-settings-when-managed-or-disabled-by-system-administrator/

I'll follow up with a comment if it ends up not working either.

\Win10ActiveHours\ folder not removed during Uninstall

The \Win10ActiveHours\ folder remains in the Task Scheduler Library after the task is uninstalled.

Just wanted to say thanks! Nice work!

You may close this issue ;)

Register-ScheduledTask : The parameter is incorrect

The task will not register running in an elevated powershell session on Windows 10 Enterprise. Full error Details:

  Register-ScheduledTask $TaskName $TaskPath @options | Out-Null

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Category Info                  : InvalidArgument: (PS_ScheduledTask:Root/Microsoft/...S_ScheduledTask) [Register-ScheduledTask], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80070057,Register-ScheduledTask

Can't run

I assure you I am running powershell as an admin. I've even tried domain admin.
I keep getting the following and I am not sure why.
PS D:> .\setup.ps1
Register-ScheduledTask : Access is denied.
At D:\setup.ps1:63 char:5

Register-ScheduledTask $TaskName $TaskPath @options | Out-Null

```
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (PS_ScheduledTask:Root/Microsoft/...S_ScheduledTask) [Register-Schedul
  edTask], CimException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80070005,Register-ScheduledTask

Kaspersky detects and blocks it as PDM:ExploitWin32Generic

Probably due to the encoded Powershell command.
What is the reason for the encoding?
Why not just run the script direct?
That way it can be easily verified that it has not been hijacked.