Windows 10 rebooting every night between 4:30 am and 5:00 am

[ericc2728]

Windows 10 rebooting every night between 4:30 am and 5:00 am, there is nothing in task scheduler or event viewer that would indicate a reason for this. Can anyone help?

 

[Norton]

This is what MS calls "quiet time". During the time period you mention, MS updates are download and installed without interrupting your daily PC activity. It's a good feature of Windows 10, it saves you from the hassle of having to save your work in progress, close all running programs and perform a PC restart so Windows can configure and install the new updates. I believe you have the option of selecting a time to install updates at a more convenient time. Maybe when your sleeping LOL

Click on Start > Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update near the bottom of the page you will see "Select a more convenient time to install updates" My setting is 03:30.

 

[ericc2728]

this isn't right, i have other windows 10 computers that aren't rebooting EVERY single night. There is no way microsoft is pushing daily updates that require reboots every night. Something else is wrong

 

[Trouble]

Personally, I might suspect some third party software.
Maybe give a Clean Boot a try.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

Easily done, easily undone.
Basically you're just disabling all the Startup Items and All non-Microsoft services.
Be sure to check the box to hide Microsoft Services, as you don't want to accidentally disable any of those.

Run it like that for a day or two and see if the problem persists.