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Hello,
with WSUS, users had a small orange LED next to the Start button and in the taskbar when a Windows update was waiting for a reboot.
We now use WUA to deploy these updates, and this information has disappeared.
Often, the update downloads when the PC shuts down without any notification to the user; the Microsoft ring just spins in a loop with "Shutting down" without any further information.
We can see as administrators on the WAPT console that the computer is "Waiting for restart," but not from the user.

Is there a way to restore this type of information for the user?
Thank you in advance for your reply.

Have a good day.

Vercingetorix wrote: ↑March 12, 2025 - 09:24 And often the update downloads when the PC is shut down without any information for the user, the Microsoft ring spins in a loop "Shutting down" without any further information.

If it's Wapt that's blocking here, the "waptexit" should be visible

Vercingetorix wrote: ↑March 12, 2025 - 09:24 We can clearly see as administrator on the wapt console that the computer is "Waiting for restart", but not by the user.

There is a subtlety here, the console displays reboot needed more often than windows because we will read the files waiting to be replaced at system startup, if there are any we consider that the machine is waiting to reboot.

However, during the installation of a cab, another registry key indicates to the computer that it's an update awaiting a restart. And this update is correctly recognized by the Start menu. In fact, it's the Windows Update engine itself that places this registry key.