"Forced" reboot? To me, "forced" reboot means an update occurs without your permission which then gives you no choice but to reboot now.
Is that what's happening? If so, got an example?
It's not.
Or are you notified an update is available and you click to install the update, and then the update requires a reboot? That's not forced.
I made an installation, yes. I had delayed the reboot by 2 times (4 hours each) and then it rebooted without prompting again. It was the event viewer that told me it was windows update that had done it.
Previously, it had been a program that had opened cmd.exe to execute shutdown.exe on my behalf. At that time many the programs have become screwed up but they recovered. This time, 1 of them became really screwed up... But that's a different subject.
Note before just about ANY update with ANY program, you are prompted to exit all your other programs. And that is to prevent exactly what you are complaining about.
Rebooting all my programs takes, easily, 20 minutes due to how heavy duty they are or are treated and the amount of memory I have (8GB). If I did that with every installation and update, I'd require many hours of my life just for that.
Required reboots are common with updated operating system files, security programs, hardware monitoring programs, driver updates and more. But even so, updates via Windows Update and most other updates, let you delay the reboot until you are ready.
I thought that was true with every single installation. Sounds like I was wrong, unfortunately. If only it was just a normal shutdown, I'd be able to turn everything off.
These programs are ready and robust in case if a power failure to recover back. The issue happens if the failure is at specific stages of file writing. In this case, 3s after giving the shutdown signal/message. That's what screw them up.
I want to disable such feature because I want to be able to delay the shutdown or, at least, give time to the programs to do their own shutdown sequence without killing the process unless strictly necessary.