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I have a Windows 10 managed machine and I want to prevent the forced restart requested by Software Center software.

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Thanks to the post stop-an-sccm-scheduled-reboot by @Peter.

  1. Make sure you have administrator rights on the running windows. (If you don't this solution is not for you)
  2. Download/Extract the sysinternals-suite https://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip
  3. Create and save a .cmd file with the following contents 
    taskkill /F /IM SCnotification.exe
pssuspend.exe CcmExec.exe -nobanner
shutdown -a
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  4. Run the windows terminal with administrator privileges, and from there execute the .cmd (I named the file stop-software-center.cmd)
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  5. Check that the CcmExcec.exe process was suspended. enter image description here
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This just adds to acabra85's answer, but you don't need SysInternals Suite.

You can try stopping the CcmExec service from Task Manager > Services, I believe you need to have administrator rights for this. This kills the SCNotification.exe as well (the window with the timer).

Run the shutdown -a command to abort the scheduled reboot (if any).

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