If not all, then very many users have come across the fact that the system, when any critical failures or errors occur, starts to reboot spontaneously. Well, if only a restart was performed, otherwise very often the appearance of blue screens accompanies this. How to turn off the automatic reboot of Windows 7 and, in general, is it worth it? Of course, this issue is very controversial, so let's try to figure out what's what.
Reasons to automatically restart Windows 7 and similar systems
As already clear, the system makes a spontaneous restart, not just because she wanted it. The reason most often lies precisely in the appearance of critical failures in the work of the system itself, and installed equipment with its drivers. Upon restart, an automatic troubleshooting is performed. It would seem that this is bad? A frozen program or an incorrect operation of some failed component will be completed, and then everything will return to normal. Alas, this is not always the case. The fact is that the system will reboot until the failure that has occurred has been completely and completely corrected, and the operating system may not be able to fix some errors in the operation of the same drivers.
But after installing the update packages, the default restart is also done automatically, which users really don’t like. So what to do?
How to disable automatic reboot of a computer with Windows 7 in a running system?
In principle, deactivating the service responsible for this behavior of the system is quite simple. However, in such a situation, you need to clearly understand that in the future, when errors and malfunctions are detected, it may come to the point that the system simply ceases to work, but you will not be informed of any problems beforehand. Then you have to deal with a long recovery process, and in case of irreparable failures - reinstall Windows. Nevertheless, let's see how to disable the automatic reboot of Windows 7, assuming that the system at some point comes into working condition, or the failures are not particularly critical.
To perform the necessary operations through the computer properties, go to additional system parameters, in the boot and recovery settings window, click the settings button, and then in the new window uncheck the automatic restart item.
Disabling persistent restart on the command line
When considering how to disable the automatic reboot of Windows 7, we should not forget about a very powerful tool in the form of a command console, which is available not only in all existing Windows-systems, but also in distributions or in recovery environments. Almost the same actions, but without unnecessary transitions through all kinds of menus can be performed with just one command.
First you need to run the command line itself (preferably on behalf of the administrator), and then enter the combination shown in the image above. It will immediately become clear to those who understand the system settings by the type of command used that they make some adjustments to the system registry without the need for a physical call to the editor and performing actions to change the settings.
Registry Actions
If you want, you can turn off the automatic restart of Windows 7 in the registry.
To do this, run the editor (regedit), on the HKLM branch, through the SYSTEM subkey, get to the CrashControl directory, and then change the value of the key with the name AutoReboot from one to zero. Upon completion of all actions, the system must be rebooted without fail.
By the way, you can immediately disable automatic restart after installing updates by creating a new key in the corresponding section, as shown above.
Disabling reboot in the start menu
Now let's see how to turn off the automatic reboot of Windows 7 using the tools of the well-known start menu, which is called up by pressing F8 when the OS boots up.
In the presented list of actions offered to the user, you just need to go down to the point of deactivating restart when the system crashes, and after disconnecting, reboot.
Additional troubleshooting
How to disable the automatic restart of Windows 7, figured out. In the end, we will briefly dwell on some additional actions that may be required to resolve possible problems and failures.
So, for example, even with the restart disabled, such a problem may occur after installing updates. By the way, for some reason the seventh modification of Windows failed packages for some reason produced the most. You can correct the situation by removing the update that led to the appearance of errors. To do this, you can use either the programs and components section, or uninstaller programs, or the automated fixer utility from Microsoft called Show or hide updates, which allows you to isolate failed packages by excluding them from the mandatory installation list.
Sometimes the problem may also be in the drivers (most often the blue screens appear precisely because of their fault). In this situation, if the system is at least somehow working, the control software should be updated (the easiest way is to use programs like Driver Booster, which perform all the actions in automatic mode, but they require a stable Internet connection).
Finally, do not forget about the effects of viruses. If portable scanners do not detect threats, for complete certainty it is best to perform a scan using the most powerful disk utility Kaspersky Rescue Disk or its analogues (they can be written to removable media and loaded from it even before the operating system starts).