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Don Schultz

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I purchased a Lenovo desktop running windows 10 so I can run Blue Iris with about 18 cameras. It all works great! I can't believe how hard it is to stop the darn machine from doing an automatic restart after a Windows 10 update, thus shutting down BI. I have done a lot of research and there are 3 or 4 ways to disable this feature but try as I might I have been unsuccessful and my machine still does the automatic restart. One would think that there would be a SIMPLE way to stop this from happening. I welcome any and all advice.
 

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I purchased a Lenovo desktop running windows 10 so I can run Blue Iris with about 18 cameras. It all works great! I can't believe how hard it is to stop the darn machine from doing an automatic restart after a Windows 10 update, thus shutting down BI. I have done a lot of research and there are 3 or 4 ways to disable this feature but try as I might I have been unsuccessful and my machine still does the automatic restart. One would think that there would be a SIMPLE way to stop this from happening. I welcome any and all advice.
There are several threads discussing how to disable updates, more importantly, you should have blue iris restart at startup anyway in the event of a power outage etc..
 

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There are several threads discussing how to disable updates, more importantly, you should have blue iris restart at startup anyway in the event of a power outage etc..
I did some teaching of the treads before I posted but apparently I did not work hard enough to track it down. I would love to do as you suggest and I suspect there is a way to disable the windows log in requirement that is now required after a restart. I will look into that as well.
 

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I did some teaching of the treads before I posted but apparently I did not work hard enough to track it down. I would love to do as you suggest and I suspect there is a way to disable the windows log in requirement that is now required after a restart. I will look into that as well.
Google is your friend: Windows 10 auto updates keep bugging you? Here's how to stop them.
Set BI to run as a service, see the help file. It will then start when the computer startsup.
Turn off Auto updates in Blue Iris as well.
 

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Enter netplwiz in the search box of Windows. Uncheck the box that says users need to enter a password. I am pretty sure that is it, I am on my mac at the moment so I can't double-check.
 

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I purchased a Lenovo desktop running windows 10 so I can run Blue Iris with about 18 cameras. It all works great! I can't believe how hard it is to stop the darn machine from doing an automatic restart after a Windows 10 update, thus shutting down BI. I have done a lot of research and there are 3 or 4 ways to disable this feature but try as I might I have been unsuccessful and my machine still does the automatic restart. One would think that there would be a SIMPLE way to stop this from happening. I welcome any and all advice.
auto-start features and more here:

 
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