AutoUpdate Rebooting

[Luigi]

When Windows does an automatic update and automatically reboots, is there a
way to prevent the pc from rebooting? I would prefer to do it manually.

Louie

 

[Guest]

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525
choose either: Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them
or
Notify me but don't automatically download or install them

 

[Alias]

When Windows does an automatic update and automatically reboots, is there a
way to prevent the pc from rebooting? I would prefer to do it manually.

Louie

They don't call it "automatic" for nothing. Updates come out the second
Tuesday of every month. What I do is wait until the following weekend to
make sure that Redmond isn't trying to force feed us another flavor of
WGA disguised as a "critical" update and that there are no updates that
cause problems and then I *manually* go to Windows Update and *manually*
download them and install them and do whatever reboot the updates
require and I have never had a problem with updates since Win95.

 

[Plato]

When Windows does an automatic update and automatically reboots, is there a
way to prevent the pc from rebooting? I would prefer to do it manually.

While I'm not a fan of auto updates. I do believe it has to reboot so
the modified registry can load into ram for use.