Prevent Windows From Restarting Your PC After Windows Updates

Using the Group Policy editor:

Have you seen that message in Windows 10 that tells you your computer is going to reboot and there is not a thing you can do about it except save your work?


Here’s how to make sure that never happens again. This tip works for Windows 8 and 7 as well.
Press the Win + R keyboard combination to bring up the run dialog then type gpedit.msc and press enter.
When the Local Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update
On the right hand side you will see a setting titled:
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
Double click on it.
From here you will need to enable the setting by changing the radio button from “Not Configured” to “Enabled”, then clicking apply.
As always, I recommend you force a Group Policy update so that the changes will reflect immediately.
That’s all there is to it.

Using the Registry:
If your version of Windows 8 doesn’t ship with the Group Policy editor, you can always use the registry to disable these reboots. Again press the Windows + R keyboard combination to bring up a run box – type regedit then hit enter.
Now navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
Note: If you don’t see the Windows Update or AU keys you may have to create them.
Then create a new 32-bit DWORD called NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers.
Then double click on it and give it a hex value of 1.

Note: Reboot is requered.

Office 2010 Activation Failure: Unspecified Error 0x80070190

On a new install, when attempting to activate Microsoft Office 2010 receive error: 

"An unspecified error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time.
Please try again later.
(0x80070190)"

To activate Office 2010, please use OSPP.VBS.

a. Open an administrative command-prompt
b. Run one of the following command-lines based on your Operating System:

x86
cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act
x64
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act

You should see something similar to the following.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14>cscript ospp.vbs /act
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
---------------------------------------
Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product:
SKU ID: fdf3ecb9-b56f-43b2-a9b8-1b48b6bae1a7
LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeProPlus-MAK edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, RETAIL channel
Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX
<Product activation successful>
---------------------------------------
---------------------------------------
---Exiting-----------------------------


DONE.

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