Windows will give you to update and shut down or update and restart. If you click on the Power icon, you will get something like the above mentioned screenshot.

After following this article, you will be able to bypass the installation of pending updates on the system shutdown/restart. In this article, we will discuss the solution to this very problem. If you are in a hurry and want to restart the system without waiting for the updates to install, Microsoft does not give you any option. If not configured properly, Windows will restart at its own scheduled time even without notifying the user.Īfter the restart, sometimes Windows 10 takes a lot of time to update the system. One annoying activity of Windows updates is that users have to restart their system to complete the update process. Users can “pause” the updates temporarily. For example, there is currently no option to disable updates. Microsoft has taken a lot of options for configuring Windows Updates from users in Windows 10.