Restart nag popup Win XP Home

[Larry LaMere]

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps coming up every 10
minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently without disabling Automatic Updates?

 

[WTC]

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps
coming up every 10 minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently
without disabling Automatic Updates?

Hi Larry LaMere,

Group Policies can do this for but you are using Windows XP Home. If I
were you I would not install the updates until you are ready to reboot
the machine.

Here is a hint:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

This will re-prompt you to restart every "n" minutes.

Name: RebootRelaunchTimeout
Type: DWORD
Value: Number of minutes ("n") in decimal.


Name: RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled
Type: DWORD
Value: 1

 

[Swifty]

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps coming up every 10

minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently without disabling Automatic Updates?

Just don't chose - leave the choice window somewhere convenient and
forget about it - it will do the same for you!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup keeps
coming up every 10 minutes. Is there a way to stop it permanently
without disabling Automatic Updates?

Multi-posted?

I always find this question bizarre.

Why would you - knowing you plan on using your computer for an indefinite
amount of time - bother to choose to install updates knowing it might ask
you to reboot when it is done to accomplish the task you gave it?

The simplest and most logical solution to this is to - if you are going to
select to have the system notify you of updates and let yourself choose when
to install - choose an opportune time to install it. In logical terms -
don't tell it to install until you are ready for the consequences of doing
so - which you know may include a system restart.

 

[Larry LaMere]

Just don't chose - leave the choice window somewhere convenient and
forget about it - it will do the same for you!

Unfortunately it stays on top of everything else and annoys the hell out of me. I hate
a piece of software treating me like a moron ( I'm only dull normal). <| : }

 

[Larry LaMere]

Multi-posted?

I always find this question bizarre.

Why would you - knowing you plan on using your computer for an indefinite
amount of time - bother to choose to install updates knowing it might ask
you to reboot when it is done to accomplish the task you gave it?

The simplest and most logical solution to this is to - if you are going to
select to have the system notify you of updates and let yourself choose when
to install - choose an opportune time to install it. In logical terms -
don't tell it to install until you are ready for the consequences of doing
so - which you know may include a system restart.

You're right Shenan, I guess it's just habit. I install them as soon as the updates
ready to install message comes up.

Yours is the best answer I've gotten so far but I'd still like to turn it off.

 

[Ken Blake]

You're right Shenan, I guess it's just habit. I install them as soon
as the updates ready to install message comes up.

Yours is the best answer I've gotten so far but I'd still like to
turn it off.

Well, I disagree with Shenan, and think yours is a legitimate complaint. I
also tend to install them right away, rather than wait until I'm ready to
shut down. That's for two reasons:

1. If I don't do it now, I am likely to forget to do it later.

2. Even I remember to do it when I'm ready to shut down, if I'm shutting
down for example, for example, because I'm leaving the house, and my wife is
waiting for me, I don't want to take the time to do it then.

So I too would like to disable the nagging, but as far as I know, there's no
way to do so.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When I install updates and choose not to restart now a popup
keeps coming up every 10 minutes. Is there a way to stop it
permanently without disabling Automatic Updates?

Why would you - knowing you plan on using your computer for an
indefinite amount of time - bother to choose to install updates
knowing it might ask you to reboot when it is done to accomplish
the task you gave it?

You're right Shenan, I guess it's just habit. I install them as
soon as the updates ready to install message comes up.

Yours is the best answer I've gotten so far but I'd still like to
turn it off.

Well, I disagree with Shenan, and think yours is a legitimate
complaint. I also tend to install them right away, rather than wait
until I'm ready to shut down. That's for two reasons:

1. If I don't do it now, I am likely to forget to do it later.

2. Even I remember to do it when I'm ready to shut down, if I'm
shutting down for example, for example, because I'm leaving the
house, and my wife is waiting for me, I don't want to take the time
to do it then.
So I too would like to disable the nagging, but as far as I know,
there's no way to do so.

I cannot say I 100% disagree with Ken on on his point-to-point argument.
Valid points make for a good argument.

I did not give this before - which is not usually my modus operandi - but
there is a solution - sort of.

Copy this into a notepad document:

<copy below here>

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
"RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0x0007d280

<copy above here>

5 lines - watch for wrapping...
Save as "NoMoreNag.reg" and then right-click and merge it into your system.
Reboot.

Even if it nags (shouldn't) - it will do it once every year or so.

 

[Ken Blake]

Ken Blake wrote:

Well, I disagree with Shenan, and think yours is a legitimate
complaint. I also tend to install them right away, rather than wait
until I'm ready to shut down. That's for two reasons:

1. If I don't do it now, I am likely to forget to do it later.

2. Even I remember to do it when I'm ready to shut down, if I'm
shutting down for example, for example, because I'm leaving the
house, and my wife is waiting for me, I don't want to take the time
to do it then.
So I too would like to disable the nagging, but as far as I know,
there's no way to do so.

I cannot say I 100% disagree with Ken on on his point-to-point
argument. Valid points make for a good argument.

I did not give this before - which is not usually my modus operandi -
but there is a solution - sort of.

Copy this into a notepad document:

<copy below here>

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
"RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0x0007d280

<copy above here>

5 lines - watch for wrapping...
Save as "NoMoreNag.reg" and then right-click and merge it into your
system. Reboot.

Even if it nags (shouldn't) - it will do it once every year or so.

Thanks very much Shenan. I didn't know about this, and it will be helpful to
me as well as to the OP.

 

[Larry LaMere]

Well, I disagree with Shenan, and think yours is a legitimate complaint. I
also tend to install them right away, rather than wait until I'm ready to
shut down. That's for two reasons:

1. If I don't do it now, I am likely to forget to do it later.

2. Even I remember to do it when I'm ready to shut down, if I'm shutting
down for example, for example, because I'm leaving the house, and my wife is
waiting for me, I don't want to take the time to do it then.

So I too would like to disable the nagging, but as far as I know, there's no
way to do so.

What irritates me is that there is a way in Win XP Pro Wish it could pe ported over.

http://lifehacker.com/software/top/get-rid-of-windows-update-restart-nag-183976.php

 

[Swifty]

Unfortunately it stays on top of everything else and annoys the hell out of me. I hate

a piece of software treating me like a moron ( I'm only dull normal). <| : }

I'm fairly sure that "The Wonderful Icon" could minimise it to a system
tray icon. I think I've done that in the past. I usually move it so that
only one pixel is visible.