Twice now Windows 10 has re-enabled Windows Update and restarted my system. How do I completely disable this behaviour.

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Jonathan Cx

Both times I was in the middle of some important multi-day data crunching.

I've checked event viewer, filtering for ID 1074 , 6006 and 6008 and it appears RuntimeBroker has requested the shutdown on behalf of Windows Update - Which was disabled.

To be clear: I would rather this machine was a zombie botnet node than ever restart. They can 0-day their way to my bandwidth all they want, I just need the CPU cores. I need only a few KB of connectivity to check progress and understand the security risks. No lecture please.

How do I completely disable whatever mechanism re-enables windows update?

Secondly, is there grounds for a class action lawsuit here as this was not the fault of the software but a deliberate and planned action carried out manually by Microsoft.

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