Microsoft restarts Windows 11 once a month, syncing driver and firmware updates with Patch Tuesday, but hotpatch PCs face two restarts in September and October.

For some reason this just started in the last year, even though I have the Group Policy "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations" enabled. I am regularly on ...

Windows 11's Power menu finally lets Shut down and Restart work as expected, without silently forcing a pending update to ...

Windows 11 now restarts just once a month for updates, as Microsoft finally bundles driver, .NET, and firmware updates with ...

Microsoft is changing Windows PC updates next month, forcing restarts to enable specific security component fixes to install, ...