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Windows 10 allows you to set "office hours" during which it won't automatically reboot. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to set the entire day as office hours. So the trick is to change your off...
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#1: Initial revision
by
Peter Taylor
·
2021-06-14T07:08:18Z (almost 3 years ago)
Windows 10 allows you to set "office hours" during which it won't automatically reboot. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to set the entire day as office hours. So the trick is to change your office hours frequently in such a way that it's always office hours.
https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours contains a simple implementation of this trick; I have an uncommitted fork which offsets 1 hour back in the past - I can't remember, but I may have found that this was necessary.
`update_active_hours.ps1`:
$registryPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings"
if (Test-Path -Path "${registryPath}") {
$currentHour = (Get-Date).hour
$activeHoursStart = $currentHour - 1
if ($activeHoursStart -lt 0) {
$activeHoursStart = $activeHoursStart + 24
}
$activeHoursEnd = $activeHoursStart + 12
if ($activeHoursEnd -gt 23) {
$activeHoursEnd = $activeHoursEnd - 24
}
Set-ItemProperty -Path "${registryPath}" -Name "ActiveHoursStart" -Value "${activeHoursStart}"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "${registryPath}" -Name "ActiveHoursEnd" -Value "${activeHoursEnd}"
}
This is run by a scheduled task which executes every 6 hours with action
Powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File path\to\update_active_hours.ps1