{"id":235904,"date":"2026-04-25T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/windows-update-gets-new-controls-to-reduce-forced-restarts"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:20","slug":"windows-update-gets-new-controls-to-reduce-forced-restarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/windows-update-gets-new-controls-to-reduce-forced-restarts","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update gets new controls to reduce forced restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/windows-update-gets-new-controls-to-reduce-forced-restarts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is rolling out Windows Update improvements that give users more control over how updates are installed while reducing disruption from frequent or poorly timed restarts.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the improvements are now rolling out to Windows Insiders, following user feedback that highlighted two key issues: updates are disrupting workflows, and there is a lack of control over when they are installed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are continually reading the feedback submitted about the Windows update experience. Personally, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to read over 7,621 direct verbatims over the last few months,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2026\/04\/24\/your-windows-update-experience-just-got-updated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explains Microsoft\u2019s Aria Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is rolling out Windows Update improvements that give users more control over how updates are installed while reducing disruption from frequent or poorly timed restarts. The company says the improvements are now rolling out to Windows Insiders, following user feedback that highlighted two key issues: updates are disrupting workflows, and there is a lack [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}