Don’t lose your work because of automatic updates

Microsoft certainly loves its Windows updates, and it’s aggressive about keeping your OS current with them, whether you want to be or not. The default time that automatic updates happen is typically in the middle of the night, and in our experience, we found that these late-night updates, which require a restart, could cause us to lose unsaved work. Granted, we should know better than to walk away from our PC overnight with unsaved files open, but even so, be on guard. This is an easy fix, but one you might not think about until it’s too late.
You can change this setting by going to Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update (or just do a desktop search for “automatic updates”). Click on Change settings, and then, under Important updates, select anything other than Install updates automatically (recommended):
 

We chose Download updates but let me choose whether to install them. That setting allows you to install them (and subsequently reboot your system) only when the time is right for you.